The World - News from July 8, 1986
Ugandan troops mistakenly attacked a government ideological training center in a forest outside Kampala, the capital, in the belief that it was a dissidents’ camp, and seven people were killed, the Ugandan Defense Ministry announced. The army commander has been arrested and an inquiry commission has been established, the ministry said. Personnel at the school, one of several set up by the ruling National Resistance Movement, apparently were mistaken for supporters of exiled former President Milton Obote.
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