Juma Oris
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BiographyEdit
Juma Abdalla Oris was born in northern Uganda,<ref name = daimon>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfnp or Nimule in southern Sudan.Template:Sfn He was a MuslimTemplate:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and, ethnically, a MadiTemplate:Sfn and/or Nubian.<ref name = daimon/> Oris received only minimal education,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and eventually joined the Uganda Army, becoming a high-ranking colonel by the early 1970s.Template:Sfnp
Following the 1971 Ugandan coup d'état, he rose to be one of the leading figures in Idi Amin's government. He first became acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was appointed full foreign minister on 25 May 1975.Template:Sfnp He stayed in this position until 1978,Template:Sfnp while also serving as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Following his takeover of the Information Ministry, a series of new directives and restrictions were handed down to the Ugandan news industry. All newspapers had to print Amin's statements in full, and Radio Uganda and Uganda Television had to transmit them in full. In addition to this, the latter two had to open and close every broadcast with a daily national prayer. Oris also sharply criticised Uganda's two private newspapers, Munno and Taifa, for supposedly conveying false information about Amin because they were not printing the same stories as the government daily, the Voice of Uganda.Template:Sfn He was regarded as follower of Vice President Mustafa Adrisi.Template:Sfn Oris was dismissed from his position as foreign minister as well as from all of his ministerial portfolios by Amin in 1978,Template:Sfn probably as part of a political purge following Adrisi's removal from power.Template:Sfn Officially, Amin claimed that Oris had been fired because Uganda's image abroad had been mismanaged and Ugandan diplomats had not been paid regularly under his tenure.Template:Sfn
Shortly thereafter in late 1978, Ugandan troops invaded neighboring Tanzania under unclear circumstances, causing the Uganda–Tanzania War.Template:Sfn Tanzania responded with a counter-invasion, and Amin's government began to collapse. Oris was one of the few Ugandan officers who remained loyal throughout most of the conflict.<ref name = daimon/> By 1979, he had been appointed Minister for Animal ResourcesTemplate:Sfnp and Minister of Lands.<ref name = daimon/> On 4 April 1979, Amin organized a four‐member war planning committee which consisted of his most trusted followers, including Oris. By this point, the Uganda Army had mostly disintegrated.<ref name = daimon/> After the Fall of Kampala, Oris fled with 3,000 cattle into exile to Sudan.Template:Sfnp<ref name= wren>Template:Cite news</ref> He had good connections to the Sudanese security services by this point,Template:Sfn and even joined the Sudanese Armed Forces as a mercenary at one point.Template:Sfnp He recruited West Nile people for a Sudanese contingent that fought in the Iran–Iraq War on behalf of Iraq.Template:Sfn Using these connections, Oris helped to organize a coalition of ex-Uganda Army groups in the refugee camps of Sudan. These rebels launched an insurgency in 1980, starting the Ugandan Bush War.Template:Sfn Oris became a member of the Former Uganda National Army (FUNA)Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp as well as the Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF), both of which fought in the Bush War.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfnp In the late 1980s and early 1990s Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army claimed to be possessed by the spirit of Juma Oris. It appears he was unaware that Oris was at the time still alive—something which he discovered when the two men eventually met in person.Template:Sfnp
Oris founded his own rebel army,Template:Sfnp called the "West Nile Bank Front" (WNBF), in 1994. Though founded in Zaire with the blessing of Mobutu Sese Seko,Template:Sfnp the group was mostly supported by the government of Sudan,Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp as Mobutu's regime was already in terminal decline by this point.Template:Sfnp The WNBF fought for the secession of the West Nile sub-regionTemplate:Sfnp<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or the restoration of Idi Amin as President of Uganda.Template:Sfnp Oris managed to gain support in northern Uganda by exploiting ethnic tensions and the lack of development opportunities in the area, offering potential recruits money in exchange for joining the WNBF.Template:Sfnp While waging an insurgency against the Ugandan government, Oris allegedly committed human rights violations by planting landmines in ambush attempts.<ref>SUDAN</ref> He also fought with his followers in the Second Sudanese Civil War on the side of the Sudanese government. In March 1997, the WNBF and its allies suffered a heavy defeat when South Sudanese rebels of the SPLA overran their bases in Zaire and Sudan, and then ambushed their retreating forces near Yei during Operation Thunderbolt. Oris was badly wounded during this battle, and the WNBF almost completely destroyed.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp Most WNBF fighters, including deputy commander Abdulatif Tiyua, were killed or captured.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Oris and the remnants of his militia subsequently fled to Juba.Template:Sfnp From then on, the WNBF was "essentially spent" as fighting force.Template:Sfnp
Having suffered a stroke in late 1999, Oris was bedridden from then on. His condition worsened in early 2001, and he died at his home in Juba or Khartoum in March 2001. This disproved earlier reports according to which he had been killed in battle with the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces. Oris was buried in Sudan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>