Summary

NOTES: COL PRINT LOCATION: KAMPALA, UGANDA TITLE: KINE AMIN INTERVIEW SERVICED DATE: 02/24/77 NO: LNC 80285 DATE SHOT: 02/24/00 LENGTH: 34 FT SECONDS: 054 SOUND: ENGSOF & NATSOF DATE OF ARRIVAL: FILM SHOWS: ROAD ON WHICH CRASH IS ALLEGED TO HAVE OCCURRED, MAJOR NOSES SPEAKING, BOOKLET SHOWING PICTURES OF CRASH, AMIN SPEAKING LEAD IN: SOURCES IN KAMPALA SAID ON WEDNESDAY (23 FEBRUARY) THAT SEVERAL HUNDRED PRISONERS IN THE UGANDAN CAPITAL'S MAKINDYE BARRACKS WERE EXECUTED ON TUESDAY (22 FEBRUARY) NIGHT THE SOURCES SAID THE EXECUTED PRISONERS WERE MEMBERS OF THE ACHOLI AND LANGI TRIBES AND THAT THEIR KILLING WAS A CONTINUATION OF A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE TWO PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN TRIBES BEING WAGED BY PRESIDENT IDI AMIN REFUGEES FLEEING UGANDA TO NEIGHBOURING TANZANIA AND KENYA HAVE TOLD OF WIDESCALE KILLINGS OF ACHOLI AND LANGI BY UGANDAN TROOPS ON THURSDAY (24 FEBRUARY), PRESIDENT AMIN GAVE A TELEVISION INTERVIEW TO UPITN (THE REPORTER IS GEOFFREY ARCHER) FEET R/SECS 5 008 GV ROAD SCENE PAN TO BLOOD ON ROAD 15 024 CU MAJOR MOSES 19 030 MS JOURNALIST LOOKING AT BOOKLET PULL IN TO PHOTOS OF CRASH 34 054 CU AMIN COMMENTARY: THIS IS THE ALLEGED SCENE OF THE CRASH THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE KILLED THE ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA AND TWO MINISTERS IN AMIN'S GOVERNMENT WHO WERE UNDER ARREST AND BEING DRIVEN TO A BARRACKS TO AWAIT TRIAL THE OFFICER IN WHOSE CHARGE THEY WERE, MAJOR MOSES, WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON WEDNESDAY (23 FEBRUARY) BUT HE WAS STILL WEARING PYJAMAS WHEN HE TALKED TO THE PRESS (UP NATSOF) MOSES: WALL, I WAS WITH THEM, FOUR OF US, AND I DON' KNOW WHO REMOVED ME OUT OF THE CAR ARCHER: YOU WERE UNCONSCIOUS? MOSES: I WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND I DON'T KNOW WHO REMOVED ME ACTUALLY FROM THE CAR AND TAKE ME DOWN TO THE MILITARY HOSPITAL REPORTERS WERE THEN SHOWN A BOOKLET WHICH DESCRIBED THE ALLEGED PLOT IN WHICH THE MINISTERS AND THE ARCHBISHOP ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED THERE WERE PHOTOS OF WEAPONS SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED FROM THE PLOTTERS AND PHOTOS OF THE CRASH LATER, UPITN REPORTER GEOFFREY ARCHER ASKED PRESIDENT AMIN WHETHER HE FELT IT WAS SAFE FOR HIM TO COME FTO LONDON FOR THE COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS CONFERENCE IF THERE WAS SUCH UNREST IN THE ARMY (UP ENGLISH SOF) AMIN: I AM NOW HAPPIER THAN IN 1971 AND 1972 BECAUSE WE HAVE CLEANED UP EVERY DIRTY THINGS IN THE ARMED FORCES I AM NOW CONFIDENT THAT I COULD STAY OUT EVEN FOR SIX MONTHS