Drum Magazine social history photographs, East Africa edition 581

The Truth About Idi Amin: In the guise of a champion of Africa, General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda has committed heinous crimes against his own African people. The political action of the wilful soldier-president, his expulsion of the Asians, Israelis and British, has been widely covered in the World Press, but his crimes against his own people have received little attention from the headlines. Day by day, month after month, execution squads operate without interference from the Ugandan military regime, have purged Uganda of hundreds of its most able and loyal citizens and eliminated thousands of officers, soldiers and innocent people, May 1973.