Recognition for Uganda

Press, 19 April 1979, Page 1

Recognition for Uganda

PA Wellington New Zealand has followed Britain, Australia, ana the United States in recognising the new Government in Uganda headed by Professor Yusufu Lule. Recognition by New Zealand was announced by tiie Minister of Foreign Affairs (Mr Taiboys) last evening. Britain recognised the new Government almost immediately and Australia and the United States followed suit on Tuesday. Mr Taiboys said that the New Zealand Government hoped peace "would

quickly be restored throughout Uganda and that people would once more fully enjoy the basic human rights “so cruelly denied them” under the Amin regime. “We wish the people of Uganda all success in restoring the economy and well-being of their country, and look forward to Uganda’s resuming its rightful place in the Commonwealth and the wider intern, tional community,” he said. Reports reaching Nairobi have said that troops still loyal to the ousted

Ugandan dictator, I di Amin, are massacring people in the eastern town of Tororo. Travellers who have reached the nearby Kenyan frontier said by telephone yesterday that thousands of civilians had fled as remnants of Amin’s army retreated through the town on Tuesday night before advancing Tanzanian and returned Ugandan exile forces. “They are killing everybody in Tororo,” said the commissioner, Miss Kaboza. She said that the dis-

trict commissioner, Mr Kasirye was among those killed by the troops, who appeared to be exacting reprisals for defeat by the Tanzanian-led anti-Amin army. The travellers said that the Amin troops had pulled people from houses in Tororo and had shot them. Some of the troops had frantically tried to find cars to drive towards tribal homelands in the north. VITAL BRIDGE TAKEN, Page 8