Keen on attracting more tourists, the Uganda government, through the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) is all set to make public a war museum highlighting colonial-era wars and recent clashes.
It will have a figure that several Ugandans would prefer to disremember — the late president Idi Amin.
Gifted by Nature is a saying that Uganda utilizes to endorse its tourism, particularly wildlife, primates, and freshwater lakes. The tourist trade attracts over $1.6 billion every year, as per the recent figures contained in a presentation made by line Minister Prof. Eprahim Kamuntu during the NRM manifesto implementation week.
At present, Uganda proposes to partner with countries like Germany, Cambodia, Japan and Rwanda as destinations for what is known as dark tourism.
A planned war museum will display the long history of conflict for Uganda.
Exhibits will aim on colonial era, the Lord’s Resistance Army war, and President Idi Amin’s bloody eight-year rule, when as many as 500,000 people were murdered in political or ethnic persecution.
An exhibition that everyone can attend is by now in progress displaying the timeline of the leadership and lifestyle of Amin along with providing an exclusive insight into how Amin’s years in power were experienced by ordinary Ugandans.
Dark tourism is one that features travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.
As per (UTB) foreign tourists are more and more getting more enthralled by ‘dark tourism sites’ worldwide, and Uganda with its chaotic past, some of which has by now been popularized by movies and documentaries including the Last King of Scotland, Kony 2012, 27 Guns; can become a favorite destination for this form of tourism.
