Word: amination
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...ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. Until now, though, there has been little solid documentation of just how bad things are in his East African nation. Last week the prestigious International Commission of Jurists issued one of the most scathing reports it has produced in 22 years of investigating official injustice from Turkey to South Africa. After examining evidence for three years the jurists concluded that Uganda has seen "a total breakdown of the rule...
...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...
...accused of similar arbitrary exercises of power. Wise Kampalans know enough not to argue with rifle-bearing privates and to never, ever, look at a soldier's girl friend. The army is now so far beyond the law that it is believed responsible for thousands of killings that Amin never ordered. The sound of small-arms fire is a feature of Kampala evenings. "The army is machine-gunning the moon to save Uganda from invasion," say Kampalans bitterly. Outwardly one of Africa's most placidly beautiful capitals, the city is gripped by fear...
...wife's lot can be unhappy if she has been cast off by Uganda's temperamental President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dado, 48. Earlier this year Amin divorced three of his four wives. Last month Mama Malyamu, 36, Amin's first wife and mother of six of his 14 children, was charged with smuggling, fined $95 and held in jail for two weeks. Last week Kay Amin, mother of four, was seized in Kampala, allegedly in possession of a submachine gun and ammunition. According to Radio Uganda, a contrite Kay was escorted to Parliament...
...newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during the Nasser era because he opposed the regime...