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Notes on the Civil and Political Strife in Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Mamadou Tall
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Idi Amin’s eight-year reign as dictator of Uganda produced one of the most vicious regimes in Africa’s recent history. The number of people who met violent death at the hands of the regime’s agents is estimated to have been as high as 100,000.

When the regime was swept away by Tanzanian troops in April 1979, it was expected by Ugandans as well as foreign observers that at long last, political and social violence would abate. However, the events of the last three years have belied these hopes and expectations.

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African Issues , Volume 12 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1982 , pp. 41 - 44
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1982 

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1. International Commission of Jurists, Uganda and Human Rights, (Geneva: ICJ, 1977); Kyembe, Henry, State of Blood, (London: Paddington Press, 1977)Google Scholar; Kayiira, Lutakome A. and Kannyo, Edward, “Politics and Violence in Uganda,” Africa Report, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January-February 1978)Google Scholar.

2. For recent press accounts see Le Monde, April 10, 1982 and May 5, 1982; Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1982; The Guardian, (London), June 4, 1982.

3. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ICRC Bulletin, No. 75 (April 7, 1982), pp. 4, 5.

4. Amnesty International, “News Release,” April 14, 1982.

5. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugee Update, Nos. 53/55 (April 1982), p. 2.

6. UNHCR, Refugees, No. 3 (March 1982).

7. Southall, Aidan, “Social Disorganization in Uganda: Before, During and After Amin,” The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 1980)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ibingira, Grace S., African Upheavals Since Independence, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 65-183Google Scholar; Dinwiddy, Hugh, “Uganda: The Search for Unity, Early Days to 1966,” African Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 321 (October 1981)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8. Gertzel, Cherry, “Uganda After Amin: The Continuing Search for Leadership and Control,” African Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 317 (October 1980)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9. Commonwealth Secretariat, “Uganda Elections, December 1980: The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group,” London, n.d. (1981), p. 4.

10. Africa Confidential, (London), Vol. 22, No. 4 (February 11, 1981).

11. Cherry Gertzel, op. cit., p. 489.