Commonwealth’s public condemnation of Idi Amin

Title

Commonwealth’s public condemnation of Idi Amin

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

TX Date

Jun 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:05:07

Description

Report on the Commonwealth leaders public condemnation of Ugandan President Idi Amin’s human rights abuses in Uganda and discussion of the problems of southern Africa, and Rhodesian independence. Includes speeches by UK Prime Minister James Callaghan. Also looks at how smoothly the conference ran, and Canada’s Pierre Trudeau speaks about this.

Contributors

James Callaghan; Pierre Trudeau

Keywords

Human rights violations; Uganda; Idi Amin; Political systems; Conferences; Zimbabwe; Commonwealth of Nations; Presidents; Independence; Namibia

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