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Eight years of brutal tyranny were ended in Uganda this week.as Amin and his Libyan supporters were driven out.

The Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian regulars made, the final push of their five-month long drive against Kampala.

They had taken the military police headquarters in Makindye the same day as Amin, in a final act of bravado, was strolling about Kampala's central market shaking hands with terrified shoppers and stall holders.

Then Amin abandoned the city with no one sure where he went next.

He may be in Jinja to the east of Kampala, or in Northern Uganda; possibly Libya or even with his family who have been moved from Libya to Iraq.

One thing is certain: Amin will not be welcomed with open arms in Libya after the way Gaddafi reportedly duped troops into going to Uganda by telling them they were going on parade, packed them into planes and sent them to Entebbe!

Two of the planes never even got there. One crashed in Zaire and another landed in an area of Uganda already in the hands of Tanzanian troops!

The new' government sworn in last week was promptly welcomed by both the British and American imperialists.

President Lule is the proBritish, pro-Commonwealth leader they had hoped for in Amin when he first deposed the 'left' nationalist Obote.

Britain and Israel (who trained Amin's army till he threw them out) were the first governments to recognise Amin.

The fulsome praise for Lüle from imperialism's errand-boy David Owen should confirm beyond any doubt that the overthrow of Amin is far from ending the oppression and exploitation of the Ugandan masses.

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