Ugandan coffins full of beans
NZPA-Reuter Nairobi Ugandan smugglers are filling coffins with coffee beans, hiring professional mourners and carrying the valuable commodity into Kenya, Radio Uganda has reported. The smugglers’ favourite route — by boat across’ Lake Victoria — is under] fire from Ugandan helicopters. Earlier this week Uganda Radio reported that marines] had captured 24 smugglers] on the lake with 500 bags of' coffee worth more than $55,570. They could face] death by firing zquad under] the country’s tough laws | against economic sabotage.
il It was reported that marines burned six smugglers . alive this week under petrolsoaked sacks on an island in the lake after the smugglers . opened fire on a helicopter ‘ and forced it to crash-land ; with one dead and two wounded aboard. President Idi Amin has [ ordered Ugandan soldiers to |jstop arresting and harassing innocent people, Radio (Uganda said. ! President Amin told the i artillery regiment at Ma:j kindye Barracks that the > | military should not abuse its ’ powers of arrest by using i them against the innocent. !i “Even those arrested for '(crimes should be tried be;lf ore a court,” the radio quoted him as saying.
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Press, 9 April 1977, Page 8
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