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 KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Milton Obote, Uganda's first prime minister and two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, while others blamed him for the deaths of as many as 500,000 people and said they would not mourn him.
Obote, whose initial term ended with a coup led by Idi Amin, died Monday at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, said Henry Mayega, secretary-general of Obote's Ugandan People's Congress. Obote was 80 and had been living in exile in Zambia.
He will be buried at his ancestral home in northern Uganda at a date to be determined, Ugandan People's Congress lawyer Peter Walubiri said.
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