| Battle of Mutukula | |||||||||
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| Part of the Uganda–Tanzania War | |||||||||
  Mutukula Battle of Mutukula (Uganda) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Tanzania |
 Uganda | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Mwita Marwa Salim Hassan Boma |
Yefusa Bananuka Bernard Rwehururu Abdulatif Tiyua | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
| 208th Brigade |
Gondo Battalion Suicide Battalion | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 1 brigade | unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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3 killed dozens wounded |
14 killed 2 captured 1 tank destroyed 1 tank damaged 1 tank captured 3 APCs destroyed | ||||||||
The Battle of Mutukula (Kiswahili: Mapigano ya Mutukula) took place from 21 to 22 January 1979 near and in the town of Mutukula, Uganda, during the Uganda–Tanzania War. After repulsing a Ugandan invasion of the Kagera Salient in 1978, Tanzanian commanders feared that Ugandan forces stationed upon the high ground in Mutukula, a town located along the Tanzania–Uganda border, still posed a threat to their territory. On the night of 21 January 1979 the Tanzanian 208th Brigade crossed the border and surrounded the town. The following morning it attacked, and the Ugandan garrison—including the Gondo and Suicide Battalions—fled. Afterwards the Tanzanians razed the locale in revenge for the damage wrought by the Ugandans in Kagera.