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...have very accurate information," declared Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada last week, as he proceeded to rattle off a lengthy list of potential invaders. They included neighboring Tanzania, Britain, Israel, Zambia, India, Rwanda, Sudan, "some countries in NATO," plus "two other countries"-one of them presumably China-all conspiring with Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Malawi and Guyana. But Ugandans should not worry, Amin added, because "the Uganda armed forces are prepared to deal with the threat," and he was in direct command...
...Ugandan army under Amin's command was in fact the biggest threat facing Ugandans last week. The army, now dominated by his own West Nile group of Moslem tribes, had already massacred thousands of Lango and Acholi tribesmen after Amin's overthrow of President Milton Obote in 1971. Since last month's brief battle with invading Ugandan exiles from Tanzania, the army has turned on the Baganda, the country's largest tribe. Military police have made wholesale arrests, including Benedicto Kiwanuka, the Chief Justice of Uganda who was also the Baganda's most revered leader...
...same time, the flight of Uganda's Asians continued. Suspecting that some were not abiding by the deadline he had given them of 48 hours between the time they got their exit papers and the moment they left the country, Amin ordered a house-to-house search for Asians. By last week some 14,000 had left for England, India and Canada (the U.S. also announced that it would admit 1,000 refugees). But according to the private calculations of Uganda's police, an average of five Asians a day were being shot by soldiers, mostly at roadblocks...
Last week Uganda's neighbors, who have been alarmed by Amin's policies, stepped up efforts to keep peace in the area. Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko visited Kampala, and was presented by Amin with the Order of the Source of the Nile, Uganda's highest medal. The two leaders even agreed to rename Lake Albert and Lake Edward, which lie on the border of Zaïre and Uganda and will henceforth be known, respectively, as Mobutu Sese Seko Lake and Idi Amin Dada Lake. More important, Mobutu seemingly won Amin...
Stalling. The British strategy seemed to be one of stalling for time in hopes that Amin might be prevailed upon to change his mind (or would be overthrown). Last week Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home took the issue to the United Nations General Assembly and asked that other nations help ease the burden of resettlement. Some 15,000 refugees are expected to settle in India, and 15 other countries have come forward with offers to accept smaller numbers of the expelled Asians. (The U.S. has been slow in responding to Britain's request, but this week the State...