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The most recent report issued by the Liberal International Commission of Jurists which investigates official injustics on a fairly large scale, is concerned with Uganda and specifically with its Ruler General Idi Amin. Backed by evidence (both documentary and verbal) gathered over three years of investigation its report shows a country totally controlled by one man, where political opposition does not exist. Amin’s expulsion of 50,000 Ugandian Asians in 1972 has been up to now the most publicised event since Amin came to power in 1971 on the back of a British financed coup.
However the events which have occured behind the scenes and received no publicity, have been horrific to say the least. In Kampala alone, Uganda’s Capital it is estimated that Amin’s personal political police (the 3,000 strong Public Safety Unit) have murdered up to 50,000 people most of whom had no involvement in politics at all. People vanish in the night, their bodies often found later terribly mutilated. Political ’;
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