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Meanwhile, black refugees from Uganda seeking refuge in Kenya told harrowing new tales of Amin's murderous campaign of repression against members of the Christian Lango and Acholi tribes, whom he regards as his enemies. There were reports of house-to-house searches and sweeping arrests. Among the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said...
Double Standard. If ever a regime deserved international investigation and condemnation, it would seem to be Amin's. Yet last week, after 4½ days of closed debate in Geneva, the 32-nation Commission on Human Rights, which practically never criticizes repression in any Third World nation, turned down a British proposal for an investigation of the situation in Uganda. Accordingly, the British government announced that it would take the matter to the commission's plenary (and public) session this week, demanding that a five-member subcommittee be named to look into the question of human rights violations...
Inevitably, the litany of suffering recited by Ugandan refugees provokes the question: How will it all end? Some argue that Amin-who for security reasons may skip this week's summit meeting of African and Arab heads of state in Cairo-will surely be killed one day by some segment of his army or police force, if not by a lone assassin. But that would not necessarily mean the end of Uganda's troubles. The restive Christian majority might then be in a position to settle its own long list of scores and grievances. There could well...
...Rhodesia overshadows matters much closer to home. Besides the problem of his socialist nation's faltering economy, he is confronted with the collapse of the East African Community that bound Tanzania with neighboring Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour-long interview with TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs last week at his two-story villa...
...What is your attitude toward recent actions by Amin in Uganda...