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Prominent people killed during Amin's 8-year rule


Prominent people killed during Amin’s 8-year rule
Sunday April 11 2021
Former minister for Information in the UPC government Alex Ojera (R) meets president Idi Amin in Kampala following his arrest in September 1972. PHOTOS | FILE
Summary
Exactly 42 years ago today, president Idi Amin’s military government was overthrown following a six-month war between Uganda and combined forces of Tanzanian army and Ugandan guerrillas. However, Amin’s eight-year rule was no ordinary one. Stories of killings and disappearances during his rule have been told over the years. Felix Ocen revisits some of the most prominent cases.
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Amid an endless wave of killings by Idi Amin’s henchmen following the 1971 military takeover, according to the book To Those Who Have Died, Milton Obote’s army chief of staff, Brig Hassan Suleiman, whose appointment Amin had bitterly opposed only three months before the coup, was captured in Kampala as he tried to flee the coun ....

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Amin, US activist attempt to resettle Black Americans in Uganda


Daily Monitor
Sunday February 07 2021
Roy Innis, CORE’s national director (left), with Gen Idi Amin, president of Uganda. The photo is from the early 1970s. Photo | harlemcore.com/
Summary
According to the book To Those Who Have Died, Uganda offered its African American friends the unique experience of belonging, at last, to the African continent to contribute to where their effort was valued.
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About 40 years ago, in December 1972, a delegation from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an Afro-American organisation fighting against racial inequality in the United States, arrived in Uganda for a meeting with then president Idi Amin. ....

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