Since the median age is about 14, most Ugandans have no memory of the Amin era.
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Though certain civil rights were promised under the 1995 constitution, few Ugandans know what they are.
Ugandans are also angry that money is being diverted to the army from health, education and roads.
For their part, Ugandans feel betrayed by Mr Kagame, whom they say they helped to seize power.
So Ugandans were surprised to hear last week that Mr Museveni has decided to allow parties after all.
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"The video looks to be more about whites than Ugandans, " said Thomas Okello, a local leader in Lira.
He offered the Asians their assets back, and evicted some of the black Ugandans who had grabbed them.
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Two out of three Ugandans still depend on subsistence farming, and fewer than one in ten have electricity.
The business has grown significantly, and today it employs 14 Ugandans, including a 53 year-old father of eight.
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And the country's tiny middle class fears being swamped in a common market by better-qualified Kenyans and Ugandans.
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For their part, the Ugandans denied defeat, saying their forces too had unilaterally withdrawn to avoid further casualties.
But what has shocked many Ugandans is the amount and the image of their president holding a sack of money.
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Kampala says Ugandans are used to seeing the president hand out money at public events.
The Ugandans like to go fishing out in the little creeks over there, and they usually keep what they catch.
It has consolidated its control of the town's two airports, while the Ugandans have withdrawn across the nearby river Tshopo.
Even so, human rights are still largely a concern of the urban middle-class, and most Ugandans are rural and poor.
In the north-west, the West Nile Liberation Front, a mixture of discontented Ugandans and Congolese plus Rwandan Hutus, is causing problems.
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The good news is that anticorruption is a language that Ugandans, including some of its leaders, are willing and able to speak.
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For most Ugandans, this was a vote for or against Mr Museveni himself, not for or against the permanence of his system.
For the Ugandans and Rwandans, things then went from bad to worse.
Ugandans tend to be unwilling to criticise Mr Museveni and his government.
But the Ugandans, declaring that Mr Wamba was the victim of a coup engineered by Rwanda, helped him establish new headquarters in Kisangani.
Quantities of public information and condoms a-plenty have helped halve the infection rate among young urban Ugandans since the beginning of the decade.
In August 1972, when Ruparelia was only 16, then-President Idi Amin expelled all Asians and Ugandans of Asian descent living in the country.
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The director of the film, Jay Shapiro, wrote his own rebuttal to KONY 2012 based on his experiences in Uganda working with Ugandans.
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Late last year, to Rwanda's consternation, the Ugandans aligned themselves with Jean-Pierre Bemba, a Congolese businessman who launched his own rebellion in northern Congo.
Marking Malaria Day in Uganda, Health Minister Dr Crispus Kiyonga said about 70, 000 Ugandans die of malaria each year, half of them children under five.
The great joke of the musical is to have the hapless Elder Cunningham reinvent the Mormon story for beleaguered Ugandans, who have so far resisted conversion.
The overall cost of providing drug treatment to the 150, 000 Ugandans with the disease would run to three and a half times the country's entire health budget.
While some Ugandans appreciate the attention being put on Kony, CNN's David McKenzie says the group hasn't posed a real threat to Uganda for several years.
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