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...along the Tanzanian shores of Lake Victoria when a force of 800 men calling themselves the Uganda People's Militia assembled in the darkness. As invasion forces go, it was small, but it was well-armed and the men were in high spirits. Most of them were former Ugandan soldiers and paramilitary police who had fled the country after the ouster of President Milton Obote, himself in exile in Tanzania. They had spent several months in secret training in Tanzania guerrilla camps, preparing to overthrow the military regime of Uganda's increasingly erratic dictator, General Idi Amin Dada...
Promptly at 5 a.m. the soldiers moved off. The first column, on foot, made its way up a little-used Land Rover track through the swamps, waded across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital...
...year ago, while visiting Jerusalem, the Moslem Amin had asked the Israeli air force to fly him to Mecca. Since then, however, after receiving a promise of aid from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, he has expelled all Israelis from Uganda, including military advisers that had helped train the Ugandan army, Amin's power base. Now he demanded that all Israelis, like the Ugandan Asians, be resettled in Britain...
...agreed. "My classes are 95% African," he said. "They are being told to hate the Asians. How can I stand up in front of them in the classroom? It is a question of respect." The Asians' fears deepened as reports reached Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, that Ugandan soldiers had shot 16 Sikhs near the border two weeks...
Outside the British High Commission office in Kampala, there were two lines of Asians last week. One was for those with British passports whose applications to go to Britain had been approved, the other for those who thought that they were Ugandans until last month, when their citizenship was denied by the government. Amin had originally promised the country's 23,000 Asians who are Ugandan citizens that they were not affected by the expulsion order; then he declared that they too would be forced to leave "because of acts of sabotage and arson." Later he reversed himself again...