“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

 

 


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