The Popular Resistance Army, also known as Movement for the Struggle for Political Rights,[1] was a rebel group organized around late 1980 and early 1981 by Yoweri Museveni to fight against the regime of Milton Obote in Uganda.
[3] Museveni disputed the results of the 1980 Ugandan general election, claiming that Obote had only won through fraud.
[4] Believing that he could only topple Obote's government by waging a guerrilla war and fearful that pro-Obote elements were planning his murder, Museveni began to mobilize his supporter network in Kampala and the rest of the country from December 1980.
In secret, he organized the PRA with his bodyguards and a small number of veterans who had served in the disbanded Front for National Salvation, Museveni's previous rebel group and private army.
[9] In June 1981, a new rebel coalition was organised, with the PRA and Yusuf Lule's Uganda Freedom Fighters agreeing to unite as the National Resistance Movement (NRM).