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Dec. 12 What Happened to Uganda's Asian Citizens? With Uganda's President Idi Amin decreed that the non citizen Asians must go, it was said that there were 8, 000 citizens who presumably would stay. When stay were counted recently, only a few hundreds appeared. The exodus which followed the President's order to all non citizen Asians to quit the country has resuleted in the departure of at least 45, 000 people - many of them to England, others to Canada, the United States and elsewhere. Who is left? After initially saying that Asians who were Ugandan citizens must leave as well, President Amin changed his minds and said that they might after all remain. It was estimated at the time that there were at least 8, 000 citizens who could take advantage of this clemency. Yet when Amin organised a head count after the expiry of the deadline for the Asians Departure, only a few hundred people appeared. What had happened to the rest? Photo Shows: A surprise visitor to the head counting General Amin and the United Nations representative Mr. W. Prattley, who was in Kampala to help look after the stateless Asians

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