UGANDA: INTERVIEW WITH BRIGADIER MARWA KAMBAIE, THE TANZANIAN FIELD COMMANDER AFTER THE TAKING OF JINJA.

Record ID: 1053306

  • Title: UGANDA: INTERVIEW WITH BRIGADIER MARWA KAMBAIE, THE TANZANIAN FIELD COMMANDER AFTER THE TAKING OF JINJA.
  • Date: 23rd April 1979
  • Summary: 1. LV & CU Brigadier Marwa Kambale, Tanzanian field commander, steps from jeep and acknowledges cheers of local people, PANS TO pistols on his hips (3 shots) 0.28 2. CU Kambale talks to newsmen in English, then climbs back into jeep 1.28 3. LV, SV & GV Very large crowd of Junja residents running back across bridge into town and their homes 2.00 KAMBALE: "We've been chasing some of them, you know. They're running away, and we're chasing them." REPORTER: "How many soldiers were there, sir?" KAMBALE: How many soldiers? about two thousand soldiers, who were here in Jinja, but they run away. And most of them, we kill them. We can't tell the number, but we are going to count them, and we shall tell you the number later on, the number -- how many killed." REPORTER: "Are you still mopping up?" KAMBALE; "We are, ah, we still you know, just sweeping, you know." REPORTER: "Where's the front now?" KAMBALE: "The front?" REPORTER: "Yes." KAMBALE: "You know the front." Reporter: "Yes, but how far is this from Inhase, (phonetic spelling) from the other side?" KAMBALE: "Ooooh. We going to Arua." REPORTER: "Arua?" KAMBALE: "Amin is in Arua. And we are going there." REPORTER: " You are going there?" KAMBALE: "Yes." REPORTER: "When will you be in Arua?" KAMBALE: "I don't know, because we are walking." REPORTER: "Have you taken any prisoners?" KAMBALE: "A lot of them." REPORTER: "Thank you, sir." Initials BB/ Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th May 1979 13:00
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  • Location: JINJA, UGANDA
  • Country: Uganda
  • Reuters ID: LVACE6NN9FGLXZH8E7DFXPI4O877
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