Word: athmani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to George Athmani, a free-lance journalist whose uncle was a Cabinet minister under Obote (and later was murdered by Amin), the plunder of Uganda's economy was exemplified when Amin secretly exported the entire sugar crop to Libya in 1975; payment in foreign currency was made through a hotel Amin owned in Tripoli...
...Wealth for Everyone) program. The implication was that there would be enough for all ordinary Ugandans once the Asian merchants who then dominated the economy were thrown out of the country. Amin subsequently expelled nearly all the 71,000 Asians then living in Uganda. In one typical case, says Athmani, a semiliterate Nubian told Amin that he wanted the Madhvani matchbox factory in Jinja. Beholden to the Nubians for support, Amin called the owner of the factory and said that he wanted to see him and his executives in one hour. When they arrived, Amin simply told them that they...
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