ABSTRACT
The more immediate stimulus to separatism, applied during the first months of 1962, was the dogged refusal of the Batoro elite to grant certain specific demands of the new Baamba and Bakonzo representatives in the Rukurato. These demands were, on the surface, quite limited. They included the recognition of the Baamba and Bakonzo tribes in the new Toro Constitution, the right to be present during the coronation of the Omukama and equality of representation in the Rukurato. The confinement of Mukirane, Mupalya and Kawamara had two immediate effects on the course of the movement. The effects of the Obote government's decision to combine a new resort to force with certain limited administrative concessions in order to bring the Rwenzururu movement under control were felt much more strongly by the lowland Bakonzo and Baamba than by Mukirane's bands in the mountains.
