New African, February 1st, 2001
British government documents, recently declassified under the 30-year rule, have supported earlier accounts by the journalists Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch which said the rise of Idi Amin was engineered by outside interests to stop President Milton Obote's nationalisation drive in which the state had taken 60% interest in all foreign and Ugandan-Asianowned businesses. Sky News, the London-based satellite TV channel, recently quoted from one of the British documents in which the Foreign Office in London had said "Amin was a reliable person to do business with". 25 January 2001 marked exactly 3...
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