Word: ugandans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they left the Ugandan airport of Entebbe, the refugees said, they could see rows of their cargo crates still stacked beside the runway. Some of the crates had already been opened, exposed to the weather and carefully plucked over like boxes of fruit. Because they feared searches at roadblocks and airport customs, the refugees carried with them only the barest of personal belongings, often chosen in haste: a tennis racket, tape recorder, kitchen clock or guitar. Sakaria Rajendra, a student, wore 20 elephant-hair bracelets to give to people in England. One family, luckier than most, smuggled out a diamond...
Family reunions are curiously without tears. A university student in a pinstriped suit awaits his father, a well-to-do Ugandan architect who will probably not qualify to practice in England. What are his emotions about this turn in the family's fortunes? "It's a bloody inconvenience," he replies. Adds a restaurant owner from Kampala: "There is no big problem. You only have to begin from scratch, work and earn, and slowly, slowly everything will be all right...
Though some of the refugees say that difficulties and harassment in Uganda have subsided, there are still occasional reports of random terror. One father arrived in London only to receive a call telling him that his son, after driving him to the Ugandan airport, had been stopped by soldiers and slowly cut to death with machete-like panga knives. A businessman said that he left hurriedly after both his partners in a gas-station chain were stopped while carrying the week's receipts into Kampala, put into the trunk of a car and driven to a village where they...
Britons Approve. Such excesses have helped make Amin Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of most Britons -and created some sympathy for the arriving Asians. Last week Amin called British High Commissioner Richard Slater into his office before live TV cameras and accused him of plotting against the Ugandan government; London angrily recalled its representative. Most Britons, according to a recent Harris poll, approve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's firm commitment to absorb the refugees...
...Entebbe Airport. It is little consolation to them to know that their forced departure is creating an economic crisis with which Amin's government is obviously incapable of coping. "I give the place three months," declares a Kenya businessman who can find no qualified Ugandan to run his Kampala-based company. "Amin may still have a country, but the country will have nothing." The Kenyan adds bitterly: "The general will probably only realize it when he finds he can't get any medals minted any more. The Asians even did that...