In 1981, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni founded the National Resistance Movement (NRM) as a political organization aimed at restoring democracy, peace, and stability in Uganda. The formation of the NRM followed the disputed 1980 general elections, which were widely believed to have been rigged in favor of Milton Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress (UPC). Museveni, who had participated in the elections under his Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) party, rejected the results, declaring that political change could not be achieved through unfair electoral processes.