The festivities could quickly turn sour, however. An altercation over a woman led to recriminations over who had won the last round of fighting. “We can’t figure whether you Ugandans are real soldiers or just Boy Scouts,” one Rwandan teased. “Have you seen our T-55s?” the Ugandans retorted, referring to their Soviet tanks. “Maybe we should show you.” To make matters worse, the Rwandans sometimes paraded about town in captured Ugandan uniforms, boasting about the vehicles they had captured during the fighting.
