Sam Magara | |
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| Birth name | Sam Emmanuel Magara |
| Died | 2 August 1982 Naakulabye, Kampala, Uganda |
| Buried | Rutooma, Kajara, Uganda |
| Allegiance | Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) Save Uganda Movement (SUM) Popular Resistance Army (PRA) National Resistance Army (NRA) |
| Years of service | ?–1982 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel[1] |
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Sam Magara (died 2 August 1982) was a Ugandan rebel, and one of the National Resistance Army (NRA)'s leading commanders during the early Ugandan Bush War. A long-time associate of NRA leader Yoweri Museveni, he became the latter's second-in-command in 1981 and assumed command of the NRA in his absence. However, he fell into disfavor after the NRA's internal security network alleged that he was planning to overthrow Museveni. Magara was eventually killed by security forces in Kampala in late 1982.