26 March 1974: It is difficult to strike a objective balance between President Amin’s ebullience and his brutality and produce a final analysis of his actionsNairobi,March 25
In a mixture of the normal and the macabre which seems typical of Uganda’s politics, Miss Bagaya, and the Foreign Minister,flew to Nairobi for a conference on the law of the sea today while in Kampala there were reports of funeral pyres as the regime disposed of the casualties of yesterday’s fighting.
It is difficult to strike a objective balance between President Amin’s ebullience and brutality and produce a final analysis of his actions. But it is plain that three years after seizing power the President has not solved the problems of tribal opposition and military disloyalty.
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Source: theguardian.com