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...regime. In retaliation, scores of people have been murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array of secret police organizations whose homicidal excesses begin to rival those of Amin's dreaded State Research Bureau. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White went to Kampala last week to assess the country's continuing travail. His report...
...monthly wages will buy enough food for just three days, the only cheap commodity is life itself. In March, antigovernment guerrillas ambushed a succession of army convoys and police stations, slaying 120 soldiers and police. The army responded with a vengeance. In raids throughout the capital, soldiers slaughtered 65 Kampala residents, including a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and dumped the bodies in a forest outside the city that Amin's goon squad used to dispose of its victims...
This temporizing forecast accurately reflects the uncertain political climate in Kampala. Though Obote was widely believed to be the only Ugandan politician able to unite the country's warring factions, it is now generally agreed that he is today little more than a figurehead. Whatever real power exists in Uganda's government, diplomats believe, is wielded by Vice President and Defense Minister Paulo Muwanga. Last May Muwanga orchestrated the fall of Uganda's second post-Amin head of state-Godfrey Binaisa-and installed himself as chairman of the six-man military commission that ruled the country until...
...used more for internal security than to defend the country against external threats. "This is a necessity because the police force was nearly wiped out by Amin." As if to punctuate his remarks, a burst of shots fired by a nervous soldier crackled outside Muwanga's suite in Kampala's Nile Mansions Hotel...
...ravages of malnutrition and Kampala's almost nightly bouts of gunfire are made worse by the wreck of Mulago Hospital, once the finest in East Africa. In the wards, naked patients lie quivering on blood-stained mattresses or the filth-covered floors. The hospital frequently has no running water and stocks of drugs-known as "nurse's gold" because they so often wind up on the black market-are exhausted...