Prisoner talks stall
NZPA-Reuter Dar-es-Salaam I Negotiations over the release of 200 Libyan militia-1 men captured by Tanzanian: forces and Ugandan rebels in the recent Uganda war have reached deadlock, a senior diplomatic source has said in Dar-es-Salaam, the Tanzanian capital. The envoy said that the talks had stalled because the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, would not agree to Ugandan and Tanzanian conditions for the men’s repatriation.
The prisoners belonged to a 2000-strong Libyan force
flown in to prop up the regime of the former Ugandan leader, Idi Amin, in the face of the Tanzanian-led invasion. The sources declined to (specify what demands had been made as the price of the militiamen’s release, but there have been unconfirmed reports that the new Ugandan Government of President Yusufu Lule has asked for the return of Amin to face murder charges. Tanzania is reported to have demanded that Libya pay a large sum in compensation for Tanzanian losses in the war.
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