Below is an extract from a book about Uganda’s Exodus in 1972, called “Ninety Days” written by Rashmi Paun.
Discretion is advised for those that might have possibly been victims of such heinous ordeals.
It is sad and it is certainly unethical that the very people and their families who helped build Uganda were
dishonourably tormented, persecuted in such besieged way to be felt to their very anguished souls that were stricken up to a pulp in such an inhuman way, by compellingly degrading them as
trash.
This such heinous experience, that many of us not exposed to would have ever envisioned, these were literally daylight nightmares in the making whilst your eyes were fully wide open and wake for the
anguish Mothers, Fathers, Grand Parents, Aunts, Uncles, Sisters, Brothers, Children, , their heart thumping away, disoriented for they had done no wrong but were victims of callous greed, evil
through one person’s vision or call it schizophrenic attack.
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Extract from a book about Uganda’s Exodus in 1972, called “Ninety Days” written by Rashmi Paun.
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Exiles: The Ugandan Asian Story Learning resources
About the authors Bill Bolloten is an independent education consultant. He specialises in work on equality, diversity, migration and community cohesion. Suman Bhuchar has been involved in the Exiles Project as a researcher, writer, interviewer and production supervisor for the digital stories. The Exiles Project, Project manager: Santhosh Chandran Project coordinator: Jayesh Amin Heritage consultant: Philip Kiberd Design: Tim Hughes
http://asiancentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Exiles-learning-pack-web1.pdf
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) Hardcover – 23 Sep 2015
by Kelly M. Greenhill (Author)
Uganda (G)—United Kingdom, 1972 [British Ugandans]; Failure
On August 5,1972, President Idi Amin announced his intention to expel all Asians from Uganda within three months, in what has been widely regarded as an act of simple economic expropriation (i.e., a case of dispossessive engineered migration Up to 80,000 of those due to be pushed out were British passport-holders.
Second generation Madhvani
Manubhai (on the right) with his brother, Jayant . The two Madhvanis grew their father’s businesses and handed them over bigger and better to a third generation, despite turbulent times.
In Summary
These stories of Manubhai Madhvani who died in London in May 2011, are excerpts from Vali Jamal’s book Uganda Asians: Then and now, Here and There, We contributed, We contribute. The interview was done at Kakira on June 19, 2008 with Eng Yashwant D. Sidpra.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/Second-generation-madhvani/-/688342/1521496/-/fyt02sz/-/index.html
Expulsion of Indians from Uganda 1972 | Part 1/2
Uganda recognises Sikh Contribution.
Uganda recognises Sikh Contribution.
Amazing that Kenya, Uganda and Canada recognized the contributions of Sikhs to their society and country as a whole. Sikhism being the fifth largest religion in t
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'From Kampala to Leicester': The Story of a Community
On 4 August 1972, then President of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian and Pakistani minority, giving them 90 days to leave Uganda.[1] Amin said that he had had a dream in which God told him to order the expulsion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda
Asian Voice …. Glorious Gujaratis
Gujaratis are known to make a mark everywhere in the world, from Canada to US to Europe to New Zealand- whatever be their job- whether it's business, politics, banking, legal, art, music or acting. There are very few who do not know leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah or Narendra Modi.
https://www.asian-voice.com/News/UK/Glorious-Gujaratis
On This Day: Idi Amin orders 60,000 Asians out of Uganda
Idi Amin expels Asians from Uganda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/idi-amin-expels-asians-from-uganda/7698.html
1972: Asians given 90 days to leave Uganda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/7/newsid_2492000/2492333.stm
In 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ordered all Asians out of the country, which led to around 10,000 arriving in Leicester.
http://www.pukaarnews.com/40-year-anniversary-ugandan-asians-arriving-leicester/2391/
Exile, Discrimination and
Integration
The story of Britain’s Ugandan Asians 40 Years on
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/britains-ugandan-asians/
Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin’s Expulsion of Asians in 1972
http://www.ibtimes.com/uganda-legacy-idi-amins-expulsion-asians-1972-214289
Immigration archive: Ugandan Asians in Leicester (1972)
http://www.channel4.com/news/immigration-archive-ugandan-asians-in-leicester-1972
Short-sighted demagogue who played the race card: Idi Amin expelled the Asians 20 years ago. Richard Dowden, Africa Editor, explains why the decision was supported by Ugandans
http://www.ibtimes.com/uganda-legacy-idi-amins-expulsion-asians-1972-214289
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1106/asian-refugees-from-uganda
Uganda Asian Exodus: Laila Datoo’s Exclusive Collection of Photos of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan’s Visit to a Refugee Camp in Italy in January 1973
SPECIAL REPORT - The Last Indian to leave Uganda
With the expulsion of Ugandan Asians in 1972 came separation of family and friends. I found this letter addressed to my late father, dated 24th October
1972.
Stamped Newbury, 24th October 1972.
Now, that is nostalgia, imagine your own parents, your loved ones, and small children, young, old all forcibly displaced with the very clothes that you, they wore and the devastation that
brought to the elders on the forceful burden that was bestowed upon them at their age, all was lost.
As if, that was not enough, building up to the evacuation date... a loving, living environment in contrast was now a constant fear of life overnight, one had to get rid of all your valued
sentimental in pets, in valued treasured goods for nothing, the pain that resonated through each and every member of the family in a different way until such time of the exodus that neared like a
dingier greyer mist setting upon hovering over us all, that got grimmer and grimmer.
There was more heartache/fear awaiting that reverberated and constant apprehension of getting imprisoned, beaten up, women folks in fear of getting abducted, raped, their valuables snatched and the
perpetual anxiety and terror bequeathed upon all in a different way until such time that one safely either got to the borders or at the Entebbe Airport.
Elders who had spent decades building what they had with their blood sweat and tears for the very loving families that stood in front of them with nothing, nothing at all, as all was to be
left behind, taken away from them, all some of them had was each other.
Social network, all were so tightly knitted as one household, that experience that still echoes at social gathering amongst us all to this very day, all school friends that were like a
family to us all, some parted never to be seen ever again, all the sentimental landscapes, the food, the air that was so pure and different even the aroma of the sand when it rained lingers in our
thoughts, how each and every one of us must have been dichotomized from the land that was one's precious ancestral home.
How each one of us was possibly dissected in their very own desolated psychological way only to find ourselves as paupers heading to a land that was an Empire, far away that our forefathers knew well
about but most of us had only read about.
A land, that ruled over our mother land for over 200 yrs: yet we did not or could not comprehend, grasp the impact awaiting us all; on the other hand we had heard that our forefathers in their eyes
were looked down upon as second class people.
We were stepping upon a historical feat in contrast and entering a land that was once "the empire on which the sun never sets" an unfolding of a historical era that was unimaginable,
inconceivable just a decade ago.
What was awaiting us all, they were rulers, they had different cultural, religion, environment, traditions, climate, a land that some folks seen us all as a threat to their livelihood, threat towards
their loved ones.
We were set upon, prejudiced upon, yet all we were “a people without a land, with some belongings, fragmented in mind and soul, beings that had been abandoned with families... hoping for the Empire
that ruled over us to give us back in return some shelter and hope.
Deflated elders had to step up and to now start life all over again with their loved ones providing shelter, feeding, educating, nursing them, to consoling them, comforting, reassuring that all will
be alright etc providing, supporting us in the best possible way that they could.. BLESS THEM FOR THEY DID NOT DESERVE ALL THAT!
1972 was the year never to be forgotten….We must thank the UK government and its wonderful and good people in believing in us and giving us hope, here we are some four decades later...
Life is such…
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The History of Fort Portal (Fort Gerry)
It is the only town in Uganda with an English name “Fort Portal”, and the town was named after the British Consul General of Zanzibar, Sir Gerald Portal, who came to Uganda in 1890s to formalize British protectorate ship over Uganda.
Fort portal is perhaps the most attractive town in Uganda, its situated amid lush rolling hillsides swathed in near tea plantations and clouds permitting / offering excellent views across to the glacial peaks of the Rwenzori Mountains to the west, the town centre has seen a great deal of renovation since the early 1990’s, including plenty of new hotels and restaurants, and what with the recent resurfacing of its internal roads, it is barely recognizable from the run down Fort portal hole of a few years back.
http://fortportal-town.com/the-history/
https://theeye.co.ug/fort-portal-infomation/
Memories Leicester
Copyright Confederation of Indian Organisations (UK), Leicester Mercury or individuals
donating images. * Some images courtasy of Leicester Mercury Archive at the University of Leicester
More Links on Uganda:
The Most Evil Men in History: Idi Amin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyaTWKv44Hs
Uganda Asian Refugee Movement 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQPKNhxymY
Ugandan Indian Migration (1970s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrY-vl8_Vak
Leicester: Ugandan Asians - 40 years on (Part 1, 2 & 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Pc19cg-d4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVz295UWzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVv0IRyu2TI
Uganda 40 Yrs on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4abS0PhRzQ
Return to Uganda - 06 Aug 07 - Part 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3DlMY5JIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_MyXrAYKU
Rana's Reflections, Ruminations & Recollections
http://www.josephclan.com/tjblog/?p=1859
Other Links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2399549.stm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fd23a2ca-ecb0-11e1-81f4-00144feab49a.html#axzz34p49qDZq
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19549567
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/suffolk/article_2.shtml
http://southasianlitfest.com/event/ugandan-asian-exodus/
http://www.ibtimes.com/uganda-forty-years-after-idi-amin-expelled-asians-739228
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/635863-saleh-woos-back-asians-expelled-by-amin-in-1972.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/stories/2004/03/views-on-refugees.shtml
http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=5270
http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2012/40th-anniversary-of-ugandan-asian-refugeee-camp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4371457.stm
http://www.itv.com/news/2012-08-09/proud-to-be-british-tonight-itv1-at-7-30pm/
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