Idi Amin expelled 55,000 Ugandan Asians in 1972 Thousands of abandoned properties seized by the state Fifty years on, graft seen plaguing reclamation bids By Liam Taylor KAMPALA, Dec 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Amin Visram remembers the joy of his childhood in Uganda: games of marbles, badminton, the laughter of his friends. And he remembers seeing his breath condensing in the cold air when he and his family landed in Canada as refugees after being thrown out of the country they called home.