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...crisis, the first of Jimmy Carter's presidency, began when Amin ordered the approximately 200 Americans in Uganda to meet with him early last week in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, and then declared that until the meeting, they would not be allowed to leave the country. Washington feared that the lives of the Americans, most of whom are missionaries, might be in danger. But then Amin postponed the meeting, said that the Americans could leave whenever they liked, and told a small group of U.S. citizens who work for Uganda Airlines that they should regard the people...
Bags Packed. Practically all the American residents in Uganda had already made their way to Kampala with their possessions packed, as Amin had ordered. They fully expected a last audience with Amin and a quick deportation. When the bulky dictator reversed himself and said they were free to return to their homes in outlying districts, the majority chose to remain in Kampala to await further news...
Nobody ever knows exactly what game Idi Amin is playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard...
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...