General Idi Amin Announces His Intention To Expel South Asians From Uganda | Kampala | August 1972

Early August 1972. Footage of Ugandan military dictator General Idi Amin re-iterating his announed plan to expel South Asians from his country. Amin accused the community at large of failing to integrate with Ugandan society, of "disloyalty" and "commercial malpractices" which undermined the economy. Most of the Asians who were of Indian, Pakistani and Bengali heritage, left for Britain while others found new homes in Canada, India and neighbouring East African countries. South Asians had been brought to Uganda when it was a British Protectorate in two phases: 1. To "serve as a racial class in-between Europeans and Africans in areas of commerce and administration".[ 2. In the 1890s, 32,000 labourers were brought from colonial India to serve as indentured labours to work on the construction of the Uganda Railway. Source: ITN News via Getty Images.