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...Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personal goon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit. Like Haiti's feared Tonton Macoute, members of the squad are almost always dressed in sports shirts and wear dark glasses even at night. They are given to cruising Kampala streets in their Peugeots, stopping occasionally to pick up a suspect. The unlucky victim is pushed into the car, driven off and seldom seen again...
...year Amin divorced three of his four wives. Last month Mama Malyamu, 36, Amin's first wife and mother of six of his 14 children, was charged with smuggling, fined $95 and held in jail for two weeks. Last week Kay Amin, mother of four, was seized in Kampala, allegedly in possession of a submachine gun and ammunition. According to Radio Uganda, a contrite Kay was escorted to Parliament at her own request to apologize to her ex-husband. Amin, according to the radio report, directed his erstwhile helpmeet "never to involve herself in dirty activities nor be deceived...
...least 20,000 lives-and perhaps as many as 90,000-and finally convinced the Lugbaras that their turn as targets was bound to come. Sure enough, Lugbara soldiers and officers started disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
...plans last week called for an assassination squad to ambush Amin at his house on Kampala's Kokolo Hill. But when the squad arrived shortly after midnight, Amin was not there...
Meanwhile, some 70 Lugbara soldiers rolled up to the headquarters of the Malire mechanized battalion in Kampala, commandeered a tank, blasted down the door and looted the armory. But instead of moving immediately to secure strong points in the capital, they made instead for Makindye prison to free Lugbara colleagues. It was a fatal mistake. Amin rounded up loyal troops and counterattacked. Arube was surprised by pro-Amin soldiers, who shot and killed...