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Uganda's Reign of Terror

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

F. K. Sempangi
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In the reprisals following Idi Amin's 1971 coup in Uganda the mayor of Masaka, a town in West Buganda, was dragged from his house by Nubians paid by the General. A crowd gathered. The mayor asked to speak to the new chief of state by telephone. Amin's killers—“soldiers” is too good a word for them—stripped him, bound his hands, and tied a rope around his neck. The chief killer drew a knife, cut off the mayor's penis, and, holding it in front of the screaming man, told him he could call Kampala through the severed organ.

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , May 1975 , pp. 16 - 21
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1975

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