tweets

Monday, June 30, 2008

Leaving Uganda - Sepia Mutiny

Book review for "Child of Dandelions"
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005267.html --- We've talked about it here before: In 1972, Idi Amin gave all 80,000 Asian Indians living in the Uganda 90 days to pack up and leave. As the BBC reported on August 7, 1972, "Asians, who are the backbone of the Ugandan economy, have been living in the country for more than a century. But resentment against them has been building up within Uganda's black majority. General Amin has called the Asians "bloodsuckers" and accused them of milking the economy of its wealth."

No comments: