Kironde,
Do you fault Obote on this fact too? If you do then you need your head examined!
Rgds
Gook
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X
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From: "Ed Kironde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: ugnet_: Fwd: Former Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dies (LA Times)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:37:53 -0600
“By 1972, Asians owned 90% of Uganda’s commerce and dominated the
country’s professional fields. Asians represented 80% of the country’s
doctors, lawyers, teachers, and engineers despite the fact that they
constituted only 80,000 of Uganda’s 10 million people………
During the late 1960s, Dr. Obote’s administration claimed that many
Asians had acquired Ugandan citizenship improperly following the
county’s independence, and that therefore they should no longer be
considered citizens. Since 23,000 of the Asian population had opted for
Uganda citizenship in 1962 (most, fortunately for them, had elected the
status of ‘British Protected Person’ or had sought Indian or Pakistani
nationality), Obote’s actions left a cloud on the citizenship of many
Asians who without other nationality would become stateless persons.
These actions outraged many Ugandan Asians, but they were only a
harbinger of what lay ahead for the prosperous Asian minority”
B I B L I O G R A P H
Lillich, B Richard “International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy
and Practice”, Little Brown and Company, Boston. Toronto. London 1991
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