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...Geneva-based organization accused Amin of allowing his army and special police forces to terrorize the country, violating the constitution with arbitrary decrees and undermining the judiciary by attacking judges. Big Daddy's most publicized atrocity was his draconian expulsion of 50,000 Ugandan Asians in 1972, but that, apparently, was only the beginning. Tens of thousands of blacks have fled to Kenya, Tanzania and Europe since Amin seized power in January 1971. About 50,000 have been killed. Uncounted thousands have vanished and are presumed dead. Relatives file missing-persons reports, but they are often thankful that...
...abortive coup was the most serious attempt to overthrow Amin since he seized power from President Milton Obote in 1971 and won instant popularity with Uganda's masses by expelling 50,000 Asians who had chosen British over Ugandan citizenship when the country became independent. The uprising was apparently both tribal and religious in origin. In a nation that is less than 10% Islamic, Big Daddy, a Moslem, gave the choicest spots in his 15,000-man army to semiliterate Moslems from his own Kakwa tribe. To fill other vacancies, he recruited some 2,000 members from the neighboring...
...sooner had Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, accepted the post of Ugandan Ambassador to Egypt last month than General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada changed his mind. Deciding that he could not part with Elizabeth or her talents, he appointed her instead Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ugandan observers consider the promotion a practical rather than romantic measure. Not only does Big Daddy, a Moslem, already have four wives, but he is sadly short of Cabinet talent among his cronies, mostly former NCOS and privates. Before Elizabeth's appointment, he had flayed the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
...another $3,400 out of a bemused Kampala rally. Whitehall officials, who obviously had not yet lost their talent for repartee, said the Foreign Ministry had received no money yet. But, they added, they would know just what to do with it if it arrived: turn it over to Ugandan Asians in Britain as compensation for the losses they suffered when they were summarily evicted from their country by Big Daddy...
Last week the Ugandan dictator sent President Nixon a telegram wishing him a "speedy recovery" from Watergate, but warned Nixon to stop meddling in the political and economic affairs of other nations...