Amin men ‘butchered students’
NZPA London A Ugandan student has given an eye-witness account in the “Observer” of a massacre of undergraduates at Makerere University in Kampala by the soldiers of President Idi Amin. The student said in yesterday’s “Observer” that several hundred young men and women were slaughtered at the university on August 3. “The Ugandan population had been calling on Makerere students to take a lead in opposing the intolerable situation in Uganda,” he wrote. “In the villages, people w-ere with no salt, no soap and no clothes. “But as we had started gathering we were surrounded by Amin’s troops (all Nubians) who started bayoneting and shooting. “The girls were raped and bayoneted and soldiers cut off their ears and breasts and gave unimaginable inhuman torture.”
The student said about 1000 students were then rounded up and taken to prisons at Naguru, Makindye, and Bugolobi, where they were tortured and massacred. He said more raids on students took place in ensuing days. One of President Amin’s sons, Taban, directed the raids, the student said.
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