Peter Nazareth wrote: :I am sorry that Roland Travas in his moving story reduces the story of what :happened in Uganda to one sentence: :Later on, in 1972 Goans in Uganda would face a similar dilemma under the :dictator Idi Amin.: Peter,In all fairness, Roland Travas was not in Africa in the 1970s. He is justified in only commenting/summarizing about his experiences on the isles.
:If one reads my second novel, "The General is Up", published by Goa 1556, :one will see that it was the British who put Amin into power. : Nyerere was always bitter that the BBC announced the Idi Amin coup before the Ugandan media reported it. Both Nyerere and Obote were at a CHOGM meeting in Singapore when the BBC informed the world that Idi Amin had come to power. Nyerere claimed that Obote called home inquiring about the coup and the State House had no idea about it. Mervyn
