Word: kiwanuka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures. In March, Michael Ondoga was snatched off the street shortly after Big Daddy dismissed him as Foreign Minister. His body was later found floating in the Victoria Nile. In September 1972, six gunmen barged into the nation's high court and dragged off the Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka. He disappeared without a trace, as did George Kamba, a former Ambassador to West Germany who vanished from a reception that Amin was giving in his honor. Ugandans explain the missing with a wry joke that reflects Big Daddy's bizarre brand of propaganda: "They have been confused...
...Lango and Acholi tribesmen after Amin's overthrow of President Milton Obote in 1971. Since last month's brief battle with invading Ugandan exiles from Tanzania, the army has turned on the Baganda, the country's largest tribe. Military police have made wholesale arrests, including Benedicto Kiwanuka, the Chief Justice of Uganda who was also the Baganda's most revered leader. Also arrested were the head of Makerere University and the president of the National Students Union...