April 1973 - Ugandans Flock To Public Executions -

April 1973 - Ugandans Flock To Public Executions - A final gesture: Masaba's underclothes are taken from him. They bound them to trees first. Then they stripped them naked in front of 20, 000 people. They dressed them in aprons - white aprons, easy to see from a distance. Then they shot them dead. And as they cut them down in the pouring rain, the bleeding bodies fell into the mud. Tom Masabe and Sebastiano Namirundu had seemed calm - or frozen with fear - before General Amin's soldiers formed a firing squad in that soden-wet field at Mbale and carried out the public executions. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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