Henry Kyemba (born December 1939) is a Ugandan political figure who held several high positions and finally became Minister of Health during Uganda's rule by Idi Amin. He is also the author of State of Blood, a 1977 book he wrote after his flight. Create a book Download as PDF Printable version.

• Abstract B etween 1971 and 1979, during the tyrannical regime of Idi Amin, a large number of people were killed in Uganda at the hands of state agents. 1 Most estimates of the toll have ranged between 100,000 and 500,000 victims, though at least one scholar, Jan J.

Jorgenson, has questioned the higher estimates and suggested the much lower range of 12,000–30,000. 2 All available evidence indicates that the overwhelming majority of these deaths were caused by three organizations that were central to the survival of the regime, namely the State Research Bureau (SRB), the Public Safety Unit (PSU), and the Military Police (MP). These institutions either operated as death squads or harbored units that acted as such within their ranks. Huggins, ed., Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays on Extralegal Violence (New York: Praeger, 1991); Catholic Institute for International Relations, State of Terror: Death Squads or Development (London: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1989); Human Rights Watch, Colombia’ s Killer Networks (New York: Americas Human Rights Watch Arms Project, 1996); Martin Van Bruinessen, “Turkey’s Death Squads,” Middle East Report 26, no. 2 (April-June 1996): 20–23. John Cartwright, PoliticalLeadership inAfrica (London: Croom Helm, 1983), 244–45.

The Ugandan-Asian community numbered close to 100,000 descendants of people who had migrated from the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of British colonial rule in East Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. They expanded and modernized the country’s commercial networks and came to dominate them. At the time of their expulsion, some had become Ugandan citizens but many others held British or other foreign citizenships.

As I read this unbelievable memoir, I have a hard time understanding why Kyemba stayed as long as he did. I mean, even after Amin had his brother murdered he still came back to work for the tyrant thug. Reading these accounts of murder after murder after murder it starts to become unreal. I went to Kampala over Xmas time, however and I was shocked to learn that the people of Uganda do not hate Amin. In fact they credit him with producing some of the city's important architectural buildings, etc. As I read this unbelievable memoir, I have a hard time understanding why Kyemba stayed as long as he did.

I mean, even after Amin had his brother murdered he still came back to work for the tyrant thug. Reading these accounts of murder after murder after murder it starts to become unreal. I went to Kampala over Xmas time, however and I was shocked to learn that the people of Uganda do not hate Amin. In fact they credit him with producing some of the city's important architectural buildings, etc.

They believe the stories of body-disfiguring and goriness (like that depicted briefly in The Last King of Scotland) are just urban myths. I think this memoir needs to be read by the people of Uganda, but perhaps they don't want to read it. Perhaps it is easier not knowing.. When I purchased this book, I hoped to get a picture of Idi Amin's personality, and an inside story on how he maintained power. Instead I got a disconnected - though interesting - hodgepodge of anecdotes. The author states that he was a confidant of Amin's with whom he 'could talk to at any time of the day or night,' but he fails to explore Amin's character or tell us how he managed to maintain his hold on the government while Ugandan society fell apart. I couldn't help but feeling that the autho When I purchased this book, I hoped to get a picture of Idi Amin's personality, and an inside story on how he maintained power.

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