Forty years ago this month, the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country’s Asian population, who had lived in the East African country for more than 100 years.
Amin maintained he had a dream in which God told him to expel Asians from the country. Amin’s dream became a nightmare for Asians, who were given 90 days to leave the country.
In August 1972, 60,000 Asians became stateless, penniless and destitute. They had to flee the country of their birth, sparking the largest Asian exodus in African history and creating a diplomatic crisis.
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