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...typical "Big Daddy" fashion, the dictator convened a giant rally in Kampala and invited the two ministers and the archbishop to attend. Then, a few lesser "suspects" were paraded forth to read out "confessions" implicating the three men. The archbishop smiled wanly and shook his head in disbelief when he heard his own name mentioned as one of the agents whom the exiled Milton Obote had chosen to help stage a coup. Amid soldiers' cries of "Kill them all!" a gracious Amin declared that, in all fairness, there would be "a proper military trial...
...rally, in fact, was the closest approach to a "hearing" that Archbishop Luwum and the two ministers would ever get. Next day, Radio Uganda reported that the prisoners had been killed when the car transporting them to an interrogation center collided with another vehicle and overturned; the victims, said the broadcast, had tried to overpower the driver in an attempt to escape...
Grave Jeopardy. Accident or not, the deaths provoked angry protests from opponents of the regime and raised fears that Amin, a Moslem, might open a fresh campaign against Uganda's Christians, who constitute half the nation's 11.6 million populace. Only a week ago Archbishop Luwum and 18 bishops had written a four-page letter to the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, warning that Ugandan Christians were "in grave jeopardy...
...conference last week promptly declared that the archbishop had been murdered, while the World Council of Churches in Geneva demanded an international inquiry into "a six-year reign of terror in Uganda." In Amin's Uganda, there was little likelihood of that...
...ferreted out a scheme involving dissident soldiers and pilots and ordered a military campaign against a border village in which hundreds of tribesmen may have been killed; Amin has made no mention of this. In any event, the world has only his word that the ministers and the archbishop were involved in some plot. He merely described the "accident" as "a punishment of God, because God does not want to make others suffer...