“By 1972, Asians owned 90% of Uganda’s commerce and dominated the country’s
professional fields.? Asians represented
80% of the country’s doctors, lawyers, teachers, and engineers despite
the fact that they constituted only 80,000 of Uganda’s 10 million people………
During the late 1960s, Dr. Obote’s
administration claimed that many Asians had acquired Ugandan citizenship
improperly following the county’s independence, and that therefore they
should no longer be considered citizens.?
Since 23,000 of the Asian population had opted for Uganda citizenship in 1962 (most, fortunately for them, had elected
the status of ‘British Protected Person’ or had sought Indian or
Pakistani nationality), Obote’s actions left a
cloud on the citizenship of many Asians who without other nationality would
become stateless persons.? These actions
outraged many Ugandan Asians, but they were only a harbinger of what lay ahead
for the prosperous Asian minority”
B I B L I O G R A P H
Lillich, B Richard “International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and
Practice”, Little Brown and Company, Boston. Toronto. London 1991