Denis Hills

**Denis Cecil Hills** (8 Musenene 1913 &#x2013; 26 Kafumulampawu mu 2004) yali Mungereza/muzungu omuwandiisi, musomesa, mutambuze era muvuzi wa bivvulu. Yajja okumanyika mu nsi yonna mu mwaka gwa 1975 ng’abeera mu Uganda era n’asalirwa ekibonerezo ky’okufa olw’obukessi n’okujeemera gavumenti oluvannyuma lw’okwogera ku Pulezidenti Idi Amin mu kitabo Hills kye yawandiika. Oluvannyuma lwa Amin okugaana okujulira kwa Queen Elizabeth II okusonyiyibwa, Hills yayimbulwa n’akkirizibwa okudda e Bungereza oluvannyuma lwa gavumenti ya Bungereza okuyingira mu nsonga. 

## Ebikwata ku bulamu bwe
Hills yazaalibwa mu kitundu ky'e Birmingham ekiyitibwa Moseley . Yasomera mu ssomero lya King Edward, Birmingham nga tannagenda mu Lincoln College, Oxford mu 1932, gye yasomera obufirosoofo, eby'obufuzi n'ebyenfuna . Mu 1935, yava e Oxford n’agenda okuyita mu Bugirimaani, neyetekamu ssente ng’awandiika mu lupapula lwa *[[:en:Birmingham_Post|Birmingham Post]]* .

Ng’akomyewo e Bungereza, Hills yakolera mu Shell-Mex & BP okumala akaseera katono nga tannagenda Poland mu 1937 ng’omuwandiisi w’Olungereza mu magazini y’ebyobuwangwa. Ekitabo kya Hills *ekiyitibwa Komawo e Poland* kyalaga nti yali ayagala nnyo Poland nga ssematalo tannabaawo, era mu 1939 yagenda e Warsaw okusomesa Olungereza. Olutalo bwe lwatandiika, yagenda  ku busozi bwa  Romania  gye yakolagana n’olukiiko lwa Bungereza . Okumala ekiseera yasindikibwa mu kibinja kya General Kopański ekya Polish Carpathian Lancers Brigade, n'oluvannyuma n'atwalibwa mu kibinja kya Kabaka yennyini ekya Royal Regiment . Ng’ayogera Olupolish, yeegatta ku kibinja kya 5th Kresowa Division mu Iraq ne Palestine nga tannasindikibwa mu Yitale mu 1944.

Mu 1944, Hills yaweereza ng’omuserikale mu ggye lya Bungereza eryomunaana mu Yitale. Yalwana n'ekibinja kya  bakubi bebikonde mu Polandi mu Carpathian Lancers Brigade ne Kabaka yennyini owobwakabaka . Ssematalo II . Oluvannyuma lw’olutalo lwa Monte Cassino, yali yeenyigira mu kussa mu nkola endagaano z’okuzzaayo abantu mu nsi ya Yalta. Yakizuula nti enkumi n’enkumi z’Abayukuleyini  n’Abalussiya baali basindikibwa mu gulags oba okusalirwa omusango gw’okufa. Kino kyali kimanyiddwa nga Operation Keelhaul . Kino Hills teyasobola kukikkiriza kuba baali balwanisa ku mabbali g’amawanga ag’omukago okulwanyisa Abanazi era yakola kyonna ekisoboka okulemesa okudda kwa bonna okuggyako ekitono ennyo. Norman Davies mu kitabo kye *[[:en:Europe:_A_History|Europe: A History]]* ne Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mu *[[:en:The_Gulag_Archipelago|The Gulag Archipelago]]* baategeera ekitundu Hills kye yalina mu kino. Empapula zino zirimu ebbaluwa nnyingi ez’omuwendo Hills ze yalina ne Nikolai Tolstoy, Pulofeesa Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Bethell n’abalala bangi awamu n’ebiwandiiko bya Public Record Office biyamba okulaga ekyaliwo ddala. Hills yakwata layini y’emu ey’obuntubulamu era eyeetongodde ku kibuuzo ky’emmeeri ya SS *Fede*, emmeeri eyali efuuse ng'esimbiddwa ku nnyanja La Spezia era ng’ejjudde Abayudaaya aba Poland 1,200, abaawonawo okuttibwa kw’Abayudaaya abaali abamalirivu okugenda e Palestine nga boolekedde omuggalo gw’Abangereza n’obukwakkulizo ku migabo gy’Abayudaaya okuyingira mu nsi. Abayudaaya baali bamaze okwediima enjala, era abakulembeze baabwe baali batiisatiisa okutulisa eryato singa Abangereza bagaana okusaabala. Hills yasikiriza ab’obuyinza okutunula ewala nga *Fede* esitula ennanga, ekitundu ekyatafa Leon Uris mu kitabo kye *[[:en:Exodus_(Uris_novel)|Exodus]]* . 

Olutalo bwe lwaggwa, Hills yafuuka omuvvuunuzi era omukwanaganya w’amagye ga Soviet Union e Taranto . Oluvannyuma lw’okuggyibwako amagye, yasomesa Olungereza mu Bugirimaani era mu butonde nga tateredde yavuga obugaali okuva mu Arctic Circle okutuuka e Salonika mu Buyonaani . Mu 1955 yagenda e Turkey ng’asomesa Olungereza mu Ankara nga tannafuuka musomesa mu yunivasite y’ebyemikono.

Mu 1963 Hills yasengukira mu Uganda. Yali asomesa mu yunivasite e Makerere mu Kampala Idi Amin bwe yawamba obuyinza mu 1971. Hills yayogera ku Amin mu kitabo kye yali awandiika, *Ensujju enjeru*, era yakwatibwa mu gwokuna 1975, n’avunaanibwa omusango gw’obukessi n’okujeemera gavumenti. Yawozesebwa mu kkooti y’amagye eyakubirizibwa Juma Butabika, yasalibwa omusango gw’okufa ng’akuba amasasi olw’okuyita nnakyemalira ono nti ‘Nero omuddugavu’ era ‘omutyoboozi w’ebyalo’. Nnabagereka Elizabeth II yeegayirira ku lwa Hills, era omuwandiisi w’ensonga z’ebweru mu kiseera ekyo, James Callaghan, yabuuka n’agenda e Kampala okuzza Hills awaka.   Mu 1981 Hills yeezannya mu firimu *[[Rise and Fall of Idi Amin|ya Rise and Fall eya Idi Amin]]* .  Ebyaliwo byayogerwako omukozi wa firimu ow'e Wales Max Boyce mu luyimba lwe olw'okusiima abayimbi ba Rugby abamanyiddwa nga Pontypool Front Row, "Tufunye obuzibu mu Uganda, ne Pulezidenti Amin/Twalina okuweereza omubaka n'obubaka okuva ewa Nnabagereka/Okusigala nga battibwa, kyokka Amin n'addamu nti "Nedda"/Okutuusa nga kaadi eweerezeddwa okuva ewa Viet Gwent – the... Pontypool Olunyiriri lw'omu maaso".

Hills yaddayo mu Afirika mu 1976, ng’ayita mu Bukiikaddyo bwa Rhodesia, era nga kino kye kyali omutwe gw’ekitabo kye ekiyitibwa enaku ezisembayo eza  *Rhodesia* . Mu 1982 yasomesa mu kibuga Nairobi .

Mu 1985 Hills yaddayo e Poland kyokka mu bufunze n'agobebwa olw'ekitundu ekyali mu lupapula lwa *[[:en:The_Daily_Telegraph|essimu eyabulilunaku eyitibwa]]*   Peterborough, mwe yayogerwako ng'atambula mu Poland asobole okuwandiika "ekitabo ekitali kya kusiima ku gavumenti y'Abakomunisiti".

Hills yalina omwana omuwala, munnakatemba Gillian Hills, okuva mu mukyala we eyasooka Dunia Leśmian, muwala w'omupolisi omuyimbi ow'obubonero Omupolandi Bolesław Leśmian, n'abaana babiri ab'obulenzi okuva mu mukyala we owookubiri Ingrid Jan.

## Ebitabo

* *Entambula zange mu Turkey* (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964)
* *Omusajja ng’alina entongooli ya Lobelia* (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969)
* *Ensujju enjeru* (London: George Allen ne Unwin, 1976)
* *Abantu b’Abayeekera* (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1978)
* *Ennaku ez’enkomerero eza White Rhodesia* (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981)
* *Olwazi lw’empewo: okudda mu Afirika* (London: Deutsch, 1984)
* *Okudda e Poland* (London: Omutwe gwa Bodley, 1988)
* *Abatyoboozi n’ensozi: obulamu obw’obulagajjavu* (London: John Murray Publishers, 1992)

## Ebijulizo

## Ebiyungo eby’ebweru

*  Fair, John(4 ogwokutaano mu 2004). "Denis Hills: omuwandiisi era omusanyusa awonye ekibonerezo kya Idi Amin eky'okufa". The guardian
*  "Denis Hills". Essimu eya buli lunaku. 30 ogwokuna 2004.
* "Omulabe wa Amin Hills afiridde ku 90". New vision. 13 ogwokutaano mu 2004. Archived from the original nga 18 ogwokubiri 2012. Retrieved 22 ogwomwenda 2018.