ABSTRACT
An alien and successful internal minority, such as the Asians, was a perfect target for national animosity, and thereby a source of national unity. It was not incidental that the order expelling noncitizen Asians from Uganda and announcing Uganda's "economic war" was read in all parts of the country by members of Idi Amin's government. Besides ethnic/boundary difficulties, Uganda lived through eight years of leadership by Amin and is trying to reconstruct an economy which has always thrived on agricultural self-sufficiency. Moving against northern Members of Parliament and army personnel, General Idi Amin carried out an army takeover of the Ugandan government on January 25, 1971. Amin, president for eight years, was overthrown in April 1979 by an invasion force of Tanzanian soldiers and Ugandan exiles. Loyal Amin soldiers have roamed the semi-arid towns of Karamoja district and have abortively invaded West Nile.
