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...Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital of Kampala...
...arresting all Asians and foreigners caught without proper identification papers. The lucky ones were prisoners of the police. Uganda's police force, still professional despite the dismissal of most of its top officers, herded all its European prisoners (61 at one point) into a cell block in the Kampala central police station. There were no beds, only one chair and four toilets. The prisoners, including a retired British diplomat, his crippled wife, and a family with two small children, had to sleep on the concrete floor, which was sticky with stale urine...
...invasion" of Uganda. When it was pointed out that landlocked Uganda is miles from any ocean, Amin belittled British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home for betraying his "ignorance about Africa" by plotting a naval attack in the first place. He greeted the newly arrived Canadian High Commissioner in Kampala, William Olivier, by asking him when Canada intended to throw out the Queen and install a Canadian as head of state. Replied a startled Olivier: "I am not a prophet...
...million Africans, who generally resent the Asians for their relative-if still modest-wealth, their clannishness and sharp business practices, and their historic stranglehold on the wholesale and retail trades. "The British brought the Asians here to exploit us," cried one African speaker at a demonstration in Kampala. "They keep us in economic slavery." Amin himself accused the Asians of everything from sneaking money out of the country to keeping their account books in Hindi and Gujarati to confuse tax collectors. "If even I associated with Asians," shouted Amin, "I would be rejected in a minute...
...though they are British subjects; at present the number is limited to 3,500 heads of household annually, plus their dependents. Some are legally entitled to go to India or Pakistan, but few are anxious to do so. "Britain may have a million unemployed," remarked an Asian mechanic in Kampala, "but in India they are dying of hunger...