January 1978 - In The Face Of Death - Normally when

January 1978 - In The Face Of Death - Normally when death strikes people are bewildered and tears abound. On the day of the executions, death was in the air, but people were strangely dry-eyed. These were important deaths and they had been announced days ago. The weepers, it appeared, had done their job in advance. That the candidates were criminals, there was no doubt, for his lordship the chief justice had himself declared them so. That the men were not highway robbers, nor killers of any kind, nor peety thieves was all by the way. The Uganda law found them guilty and the tribunal meted out justice. There were found guilty, to use the words of President Amin, of being a breeding ground of subversive inclinations against the state'. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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