Word: ugandan
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...worst, a combination of cheap shots, superficial political commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
...Ridiculous," countered Nairobi's Voice of Kenya. "There has been a massive buildup on the Ugandan side, with instructions to strike at a moment's notice." And anyway, "Kenyans are very busy building their country and they do not find provocations from Uganda particularly amusing...
...Kenyans right after they allowed Israeli planes to refuel at Nairobi following the Entebbe raid. Uganda, declared Amin, "reserves the right to retaliate in whatever way possible." Since then hundreds of Kenyans have fled Uganda in fear, carrying tales of extortion, beatings and killings of their countrymen by Ugandan soldiers. This moved Kenyan Foreign Minister Mu-nyua Waiyaki, in a letter to the U.N. last week, to indict Kampala for "systematic and indiscriminate massacre of Kenyan citizens," some 5,000 of whom remain in Uganda...
Fearing Amin. Indeed, Kenyans have been jittery about their western neighbor since February, when Amin suddenly claimed a large slice of their country-along'with a big swatch of southern Sudan-on the basis of some 19th century colonial maps that showed them to be Ugandan territory. Fearing that Amin was concocting an excuse that could be a first step toward obtaining an Indian Ocean outlet for his landlocked state, Kenyans reacted with officially encouraged hysteria. Rallies throughout the country vilified Amin; one group of villagers even offered a $120,000 reward for Amin's head-literally...
...However, if Amin were to decide to attack, he could be great trouble for his "friends." His armed forces have more than twice the manpower of the Kenyans' and are vastly superior in artillery and tanks. Even though the Israeli commandos destroyed one-third of the Soviet-equipped Ugandan air force at Entebbe, Amin still retains almost a 3-to-l edge in combat aircraft. Western experts, however, question the loyalty of Amin's officer corps and note that Kenya's forces are somewhat better trained than Uganda...