Late Brig. Gen. Eria Mwine, who went by the nom de guerre Chefe Ali, was born in Namutamba Mityana in 1960 and studied in Mbarara before joining military services. Chefe Ali was one of the exemplary soldiers and clean officers, but whose story you will not hear often because he was atrociously killed by the cold-blood murderer and dictator of the Banana Republic Museveni.

In the war against Idi Amin, Chefe Ali had joined his brother Nasasira to form Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), an anti-dictatorship movement based in Rwenzori, headed by Prof. Rugumayo, Dan Wadada Nabudere, and prof Yash Tandon, before heading to NRA.

In NRA Chefe would later command the 11th battalion that besieged Mbarara Barracks and later captured Nakulabye and Makerere during the last onslaught on Kampala. Afterwards he served as a commanding officer of the 4th battalion in northern Uganda that was battling Joseph Kony.

During the bush war, Ali served wholeheartedly, but intrigues and conflicts of interest within UPDF by a cabal of Museveni’s Bahima boy scout “generals” made him look like a renegade. He would suffer more intrigues and character assassination at the hands of boy scout “generals” like Elly Tumwine and other cabal members that were his juniors.

It would not take long before despot Museveni started to psychologically torture Chefe, by undermining his services, denying him rights to advanced training, and bad-mouthing him in front of other long-serving but sycophantic “generals.” Chefe Ali, a good man, lost morale in serving his country because of Bahima cabals under criminal despot Museveni. He was neither corrupt, nor a killer like others of Museveni’s boy scouts. Afande Chefe became a victim of the high level of nepotism and favoritism that was prevailing in UPDF in the mid-90s.

In 1997 in his home in Kiguma, Kazo in Mbarara District, he fell sick from an unknown disease before being rushed to Kololo hospital, but died a slow and painful death on his sick bed. Although no autopsy was carried out, on orders of criminal Museveni, it was crystal clear he was poisoned like many other victims of the dictator.

I will be updating you more on the stories of these slain soldiers who died at the hands of bloody-soaked senile Museveni, even when they had served him unreservedly, but he chose to use them and later expedite them to their (painful) deaths.

I am just a former NRA Kadogo, honoring the memories of courageous victims of a tyrant.