SV: SV: {UAH} Indian community in Uganda demand to be recognised as official tribe

Jadwong Ndugu KIPENJI,

LESS WE FORGET, but I hope you are old enough to recalled that, the late OBOTE (RIP), the son of OPETO from Akokoro City, once asked the grandparents of these colonialism Indians or the Asian sub-continent to take Ugandan citizens, but they rejected, which leaves me with a question for you to give us on the meaning of this project.   

Well, on the issues of the dry inhuman sales and buying, I think, you are trying to doctor the new meaning of the word 'SLAVERY' here as far as the use of the project Asian sub-continent Indians which includes colonialism bully posts such as Australia and New Zealand.

I sincerely know quite well, that you greatly understand the sadly transatlantic inhuman sales, buying and usages are quite different with colonialism brutalities. Colonialism made African continent became some sort of natural resources banks to furnace the colonising country's industrialisation at the turn of the last century. This made, the African continent economically desolate till tomorrow! This is quite different from the inhuman transatlantic slaveries projects!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to the whole UAH folks!

Ocaya pOcure   

Den fredag, 29 december 2017 15:52 skrev 'Owor Kipenji' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>:

Padre Maikolo Ocaya p'Ocure:

Two wrongs do not make a right! These so called Indians truly were part of the divide and rule means

that the Colonialist used in most of Africa but that was just to make them not bother about own identity.

What you are implying is that the Blacks in the US for example should not be recognized as a distinct

group given that they were just slaves and hence their identities should be decided by their former owners.

Most of those Indians are just Indians by appearance and so applying the racial system you oppose against them

is being a diabolic padre.

These fellows have no roots in India just as most former black slaves in the US have no roots in Africa outside

their skin hues.

There has been a news item on Canadian TV station CP 24 to the effect that Uganda has charged 45 Rwandan

Nationals with terrorism and belonging to a terrorist Organization.Given that many of you say Museveni is Rwandese,

Is he,Museveni among the 45 being charged with terrorism dating back to the infamous 1981 Luwero Genocide days?

Otherwise I hope Imeri Ikrismas and will do so in 2018!

Kipenji

On Friday, 29 December 2017, 05:52:13 GMT-5, 'Ocaya Mike pOcure' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Wuyaa Okeya PETERO and UAH folks,

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to the whole of you in the Red Indian – World! Sorry, some of you Settlers so-called Christians from other parts of the world had shamelessly consigned the Red Indians – the original natives into reserve camps! Sorry, I think, the Indians from India to East Africa must not be as any African ethnic groups.

Why? Because, I think in India an Acoli, a Muganda, Kikuyu, Maasai and or a Karamojong can never be accepted as some sort of ethnic group in the whole of Asia. Clearly, they have what they termed Caste system, which itself is completely racism system against black skin complexion human beings. This means, why can they now start making such dubious demands and, or conspicuous concern in East African countries?

Lastly, on the sad notes, I think, the Indians from the Asian sub-continent had been the middle hands of racism and colonialism in East African countries and other regions of Africa. Because of their dubious positions during political colonialism in East Africa till tomorrow they still continue to plunder African countries dry. Just go to any city in Africa, you find those grandchildren who participated in colonialism still treat Africans as not human beings. I think, we must love our own folks than those Indians!

 

Ocaya pOcure

 

Den fredag, 29 december 2017 5:51 skrev Peter-Rhaina Gwokto <kwotkaka@gmail.com>:

Indian community in Uganda demand to be recognised as official tribe

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Indian community in Uganda demands recognition as a tribe

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Members of Uganda's Indian community, which dominates the country's economy, are demanding to be officially recognised as a tribe.

Indian Association of Uganda senior member Murtuza Dalal said the group was lobbying the Ugandan Government to follow the lead of neighbouring Kenya, which declared Indians an official tribe earlier this year.

"We hope now with the Kenyan example, the Government will look at it," Mr Dalal said.

"We are in the process of putting in another submission to the Government.

"I think it will happen. Sooner or later, it will happen, because even the current Government in the country recognises the contribution of Indians."

Rukmini Bonthala, who is company director of an Indian-owned pharmaceutical company in Uganda that hires more than 600 people, said Indians living there had "contributed a lot".

"Most of the major companies — almost 80 per cent of the top level companies — are either owned by Indians or people of Indian origin who have settled here for many, many years," Ms Bonthala said.

While some Ugandans said Indian businesses are vital, others believe Indian business owners do not take care of their local workers.

'Some injustice about it'

Indians were first brought to Uganda as labourers by the British more than 100 years ago.

Soon, they set up businesses and the community started thriving. For decades, Indians and other Asian immigrants played a vital role in the economy.

At the peak, there were more than 80,000 people of Asian origin in Uganda.

But when dictator Idi Amin became president in 1972, he ordered tens of thousands of people of Asian origin to leave the country within 90 days.

Businesses and houses were lost, and families were fractured.

When Amin left power, Indians started returning to Uganda. Later, President Yoweri Museveni actively encouraged them to return.

More than 20,000 Indians now live in the country.

Mr Dalal said he felt sorry for the Indians thrown out 45 years ago.

"I feel bad about it — especially after the contributions, we, the Indians, the Asians, had made to the economy — even at that time," he said.

"Therefore, we feel there was some injustice about it that was done to us, by the government of that time."

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