Word: ugandans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late Friday morning in Washington, Paul Chepkwurui, the Ugandan chargé d'affaires, assured the State Department that Amin "merely wants to meet the people to reassure them that nothing will happen to them." Later, reporters asked Chepkwurui why Idi Amin was detaining the Americans. "Well, you know," said the diplomat blithely, "there are some bad people in Uganda, and maybe if some of these missionaries tried to leave on their own, they might be harassed or something...
...Amin is an outrage to the world and a scourge to his own country. The tales of refugees escaping across the border into Kenya and Tanzania varied widely in details but hewed to a common theme: the Moslem Amin had ordered the killing of hundreds if not thousands of Ugandan Christians, who number about 7 million in a country of 11.6 million. His action was painfully reminiscent of the stories of the "Uganda martyrs," a group of about 200 Christian converts who were persecuted and put to death in the 1880s by King Mwanga, ruler of Buganda, the largest...
...that contains the heads of his most distinguished victims, including the former Chief Justice; from time to time, the story goes, Amin walks over to the freezer to lecture his frozen audience about the evils of their ways. A former Amin aide who escaped to Kenya last year described Ugandan life to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "You are walking, and any creature making a step on the dry grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever you hear a car speeding down the street, you think it might suddenly come to a stop-for you. I finally...
...Amin, a Moslem, might open a fresh campaign against Uganda's Christians, who constitute half the nation's 11.6 million populace. Only a week ago Archbishop Luwum and 18 bishops had written a four-page letter to the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, warning that Ugandan Christians were "in grave jeopardy...
Under pressure from minority groups to appoint someone to replace Leonard, who regulated Harvard's affirmative action plan, President Bok names Daniel Patrick Moynihan to the post, citing his experience in the Ugandan Studies Department...