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TAPE: EF03/0981 IN_TIME: 00:45:49 DURATION: 2:19 SOURCES: APTN/SKY RESTRICTIONS: see shotlist DATELINE: Various - See Script SHOTLIST: SKY - NO ACCESS UK/CNN/INTERNET 1 Asian Ugandan businessman Hussein Kassam talking to Asian Ugandan employees 2 Close up of Kassam 3 Kassam with workers 4 SOUNDBITE: (English) Hussein Kassam, Asian Ugandan businessman: It is difficult also you know, again to come and start fresh But some of them, they've started QUESTION: Would you recommend they did come back? KASSAM: Yes, definitely Even when I go I talk to them and say the country is nice, the weather is the best APTN FILE Uganda 1972 5 Various of Asian Ugandans leaving the country: at airport and loading vehicles with belongings SKY - NO ACCESS UK/CNN/INTERNET Kampala, October 31 2003 6 SOUNDBITE: (English) Ali Amin, Former dictator Idi Amin's son: They'll (Ugandans) not accuse the whites; if you come here you've got a way that you do business where you can have a bit of mercy and say that I will only do this for these Ugandans in this country But the Indians are here to just take and bring nothing back, you see, so with me, I was OK with my father, what he did was right 7 Various of Hussein Kassam in bar 8 SOUNDBITE: (English) Farida Kassam, Returned Asian businesswoman: I think they say: A woman, a single woman? In business over there? Are you in your right mind? And I said yes I am so glad I have got away from the monotony of that life and this life is giving me a broader outlook So I think it has been a fantastic experience and I do thank my dad for that 9 Various of Hussein Kassam with employees in warehouse STORYLINE: Some of Uganda's Asian minority, who were expelled en masse in the 1970s by its late notorious dictator Idi Amin, are slowly returning to the East African state following his death Amin died in exile in July, 2003 During his rule, he tried to expel all the Asians whom the British had brought over as labourers from one of their colonies India to build up another, Uganda, in the early twentieth century The move gained Amin popular support among Uganda's indigenous population - many of whom believed the Asians were making too much money and at their expense Even today Ali, one of Idi Amin's 54 children, believes the Asians in his country are there just to take and bring nothing back Many Ugandan Asians fled to America, Canada and Britain But a hardcore of Asians stayed on, and now it is their families who are returning - Farida Kassam left Britain recently where she grew up to return to Uganda where her father had remained through Amin's bloody rule