investigation has been launched into the killings of 67 Muslims in Uganda
An investigation has been launched into the killings of 67 Muslims in Uganda following the fall of the dictator Idi Amin in 1979.
Announcing the probe, Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda said a team had been set up to “carry out a thorough verification exercise of all the claims by victims of the 1979 Muslim massacre and report back within three weeks.”
The investigation will be led by the solicitor general.
In the chaos that followed Amin’s fall in April 1979, gunmen attacked two villages in southwestern Uganda’s Sheema district, killing 67 Muslims and dumping their bodies in the Rwizi River.
Nine mosques and dozens of houses belonging to Muslims were burnt down and Muslim’s crops destroyed. Many were forced to hand over land in exchange for their lives.
