The following day the embassy reported that a captured colonel, Peter Oloya, held in prison in Gulu, had been shot on the orders of Colonel Charles Otema, the head of military intelligence in northern Uganda who was virtually running the war. Otema is reported to have been in daily contact with Uganda‘s president, Yoweri Museveni…
Despite US support for Museveni, the US ambassador reported widespread disillusionment with the Ugandan leader‘s 24-year rule. In October last year, Lanier wrote: „The president‘s autocratic tendencies, as well as Uganda‘s pervasive corruption, sharpening ethnic divisions and explosive population growth, have eroding [sic] Uganda‘s status as an African success story.“