{{short description|Ugandan general}} {{Infobox person | name = Ivan Koreta | image = Ivan Koreta Atlas Drop 11, Soroti, Uganda, April 2011.jpg | caption = Koreta (left) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Mbarara, British Uganda | death_date = | death_place = | education = Kiira College Butiki<br/>{{small|(East African Certificate of Education)}}<br/>Old Kampala Secondary School<br/>{{small|(East African Advanced Certificate of Education)}}<br/>Uganda Junior Staff College<br/>{{small|(Senior Non-Commissioned Officers Course)}}<br/>Makambako Administration Officers College, Tanzania<br/>{{small|(Battalion Administrative Officer Course)}}<br/>University of Ibadan<br />{{small|(MSc Strategic Studies)}} | occupation = Military officer | years_active = Since 1977 | citizenship = Uganda | honorific_prefix = General }}
'''Ivan Koreta''' (born 15 October 1955) is a Ugandan retired military officer, diplomat and legislator. He is a retired general in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and a former representative for the armed forces in the Parliament of Uganda, where he served as a member of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee on Presidential Affairs.<ref name="1R">{{cite web|publisher=Parliament of Uganda |date=2016 |access-date=27 January 2020 | url=https://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=242 |title=Parliament of Uganda Members of the 10th Parliament: Ivan Koreta |author=Ugandan Parliament |place=Kampala}}</ref>
Koreta has been a member of the armed forces since 1981. He most recently served as the deputy chief of defence forces, the second-highest position in the UPDF, from 2005 to 2013.<ref name="2R">{{cite web |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1306979/newly-promoted-generals-decorated |title=Newly promoted Generals decorated |newspaper=New Vision |date=18 September 2012 | access-date=27 January 2020 |author=Henry Mukasa |place=Kampala}}</ref> He also served from 2006 until 2009 as the chairman of the General Court Martial, the second-highest military court in Uganda.<ref name="3R">{{cite web |date=27 August 2008 |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/688336-748532-kfadaf/index.html |title=Museveni retains Koreta as Court Martial chairman |newspaper=Daily Monitor |access-date=27 January 2020 |author=Grace Matsiko |place=Kampala |archive-date=27 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127095411/https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/688336-748532-kfadaf/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Koreta was born in Mbarara, Ankole sub-region, on 15 October 1955 in a Pentecostal family of the Banyankole. He had his primary education at Nyamitanga Muslim Primary School, in his home town of Mbarara and attained his PLE certification in 1969. He then attended Kiira College Butiki for his O-Level education, attaining an East African Certificate of Education in 1973.<ref name="1R"/> He then transferred to Old Kampala Secondary School, for his A-Level schooling, graduating with the East African Advanced Certificate of Education in 1975.<ref name="1R"/> He is a member of the Pentecostal Church in Uganda.
==Military training and career== While still in his teens, Koreta attended military training in Mozambique as a member of the Front for National Salvation, a guerilla group led by Yoweri Museveni. He participated in the war that removed Idi Amin from power in 1979. When Museveni formed the National Resistance Army (NRA) in 1981, Koreta joined him. During the Ugandan Bush War, he became a battalion commander in the NRA. During the April 1986 battle to capture the Ugandan capital city Kampala, his 13th NRA Battalion was responsible for guarding the Kampala-Gulu highway at Matugga.<ref name="4R">{{cite web| url=https://chimpreports.com/7983-museveni-feared-mobutu-intervention-as-nra-assaulted-kampala/ |title=Museveni Feared Mobutu Intervention As NRA Assaulted Kampala |date=30 January 2013 |publisher=ChimpReports Uganda |author=ChimpReports | access-date=27 January 2020 |place=Kampala}}</ref>
Since the NRA captured power and was subsequently transformed into the UPDF, Koreta has served in various roles, including the following:<ref name="1R"/><ref name="5R">{{cite web| url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/UPDF-retire-Bush-War-Generals/688334-3890010-format-xhtml-smdbk7z/index.html |date=15 April 2017 |title=UPDF to retire Bush War Generals |access-date=27 January 2020 |author=Frederic Musisi |newspaper=Daily Monitor |place=Kampala}}</ref>
* Commander of the First Division: 1986-1988 (at the rank of brigadier general) * Deputy director of the Internal Security Organization: 1988–2001 * Promoted to rank of major general: 2001 * Promoted to rank of lieutenant general and appointed commandant of the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College at Kimaka, being the first military officer to serve in that capacity: 2004 * Appointed deputy commander of defence forces in Uganda: 2005 * Appointed chairman of the General Court Martial: 2006 * Appointed head of the Ugandan delegation on the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) team for South Sudan: 2015<ref name="6R">{{cite web| url=https://chimpreports.com/gen-koreta-finally-off-katebe-sent-to-south-sudan/ |title=Gen. Koreta Finally Off Katebe, Sent to South Sudan |publisher=ChimpReports Uganda |date=12 October 2015 |access-date=27 January 2020 |author=ChimpReports | place=Kampala}}</ref>
==Other responsibilities== As a diplomat, Koreta led a Ugandan peace-keeping force to Liberia in 1994.<ref name="7R">{{cite web| url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/01/07/Ugandan-troops-join-peacekeeping-force-in-Liberia/1339757918800/ |title=Ugandan troops join peacekeeping force in Liberia |date=7 January 1994 |publisher=UPI Archives |access-date=27 January 2020 |author=UPI |place=Boca Raton, Florida}}</ref> In 2016, he was elected as a representative for the UPDF in the 10th Parliament of Uganda, where he served as a member of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee on Presidential Affairs.<ref name="8R">{{cite web |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Who-are-new-Army-MPs/688334-3104616-f96q10z/index.html |title=Who are new UPDF MPs? |newspaper=Daily Monitor |access-date=27 January 2020 | date=6 March 2016 |author=Risdel Kasasira |place=Kampala}}</ref>
In February 2019 he was promoted from lieutenant general to four-star general, in a promotions exercise involving over 2,000 men and women of the UPDF.<ref>{{cite web| date=8 February 2019 |newspaper=Daily Monitor |title=Museveni promotes over 2,000 UPDF Officers |author=Monitor Reporter | url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Museveni-promotes-Muhoozi-Kainerugaba-Lieutenant-General/688334-4972994-mqpx8tz/index.html |access-date=8 February 2019 | location=Kampala}}</ref>
==Retirement== In August 2021, he retired from the UPDF, as a four-star general, at age 65.<ref name="RetR">{{cite web| url=https://www.independent.co.ug/updf-retires-14-generals-604-senior-and-junior-officers/ |title=UPDF retires 14 Generals, 604 senior and junior officers |work=The Independent (Uganda) | date=5 August 2022 |author=The Independent, Uganda |access-date=27 August 2022 |location=Kampala, Uganda}}</ref>
==See also== *UPDF *Parliament of Uganda
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==External links== * [http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4880:clarification-on-army-ranks-story Partial List of Senior UPDF Commanders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107062612/https://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4880:clarification-on-army-ranks-story |date=2023-11-07 }}
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