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A state of blood: the inside story of idi amin. By A state of blood: the inside story of idi amin. With a foreword by geoffrey lule. By Henry Kyemba.

• Abstract B etween 1971 and 1979, during the tyrannical regime of Idi Amin, a large number of people were killed in Uganda at the hands of state agents. 1 Most estimates of the toll have ranged between 100,000 and 500,000 victims, though at least one scholar, Jan J. Jorgenson, has questioned the higher estimates and suggested the much lower range of 12,000–30,000. 2 All available evidence indicates that the overwhelming majority of these deaths were caused by three organizations that were central to the survival of the regime, namely the State Research Bureau (SRB), the Public Safety Unit (PSU), and the Military Police (MP). These institutions either operated as death squads or harbored units that acted as such within their ranks. Huggins, ed., Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays on Extralegal Violence (New York: Praeger, 1991); Catholic Institute for International Relations, State of Terror: Death Squads or Development (London: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1989); Human Rights Watch, Colombia’ s Killer Networks (New York: Americas Human Rights Watch Arms Project, 1996); Martin Van Bruinessen, “Turkey’s Death Squads,” Middle East Report 26, no. 2 (April-June 1996): 20–23.

John Cartwright, PoliticalLeadership inAfrica (London: Croom Helm, 1983), 244–45. The Ugandan-Asian community numbered close to 100,000 descendants of people who had migrated from the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of British colonial rule in East Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. They expanded and modernized the country’s commercial networks and came to dominate them.

At the time of their expulsion, some had become Ugandan citizens but many others held British or other foreign citizenships.