Word: ugandans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining mystery concerning Big Daddy's whereabouts has apparently been resolved. The U.S. State Department last week confirmed earlier press releases that Uganda's Idi Amin Dada, who was driven into exile two months ago by a combination of Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian soldiers, has taken refuge in Libya, along with two of his wives, about 20 of his children and at least one concubine. Behind him, as TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood discovered during a recent visit, the deposed dictator left a country on the brink of economic and political bankruptcy. Wood's report...
...collapse of Amin's rule set off an orgy of reprisals by northern tribesmen, especially the Acholi, whom Amin's forces had been killing by the thousands for years. In one grisly incident, a captured Ugandan soldier, his arms and feet bound, was suddenly attacked by a knife-wielding Acholi woman who slashed off his genitals, stuffed them in his mouth and then slit open his stomach. Taken into custody, she explained that she had waited five years to avenge the murder of her husband by agents of Amin's dread State Research Bureau, who had killed...
...Libyan soldiers that Strong man Muammar Gaddafi sent to Amin's aid. There are no reliable estimates of civilian casualties, but they were apparently low. The Tanzanian force has been reasonably well disciplined, though there have been repeated reports that soldiers, both Tanzanian and Ugandan, have been commandeering automobiles, looting houses and in a few cases killing civilians. Nyerere, who admitted that the war against Amin cost his country more than $250 million, announced two weeks ago that his army would soon begin pulling out of Uganda. Some of his troops, however, would remain behind to help train...
...self-anointed Field Marshal and President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada continued to cast a bloodstained shadow on his tormented land last week. U.S. officials reported that Big Daddy was in Libya seeking arms from his fellow Muslims in Tripoli for a possible counterattack against the new Ugandan government and its Tanzanian allies. Though Amin's chances of succeeding in such an effort were practically nil, at least some members of his shattered army professed to be eagerly awaiting his return. Claimed a soldier from the elite Simba Battalion, once the bulwark of Amin's forces, speaking...
While the new regime struggled to take hold, the grim details of just how badly one of Africa's relatively prosperous countries had fared under Amin's chaotic rule began to appear. The Ugandan economy had all but collapsed. Factories were closed, agricultural production had virtually stopped, and there was no hard currency to buy such essential imports as fuel...