Excerpt from Amin’s inflammatory speech against Ugandan Asians:

“…It is particularly painful in that about 70 years have elapsed since the first Asians came to Uganda, but despite that length of time the Asian Community has continued to live in a world of its own; for example, African males have hardly been able to marry Asian females. The facts reveal that there are only six. And even then, all the six married these women when they were abroad, and not here in Uganda.

In the cases where there have been moves by Asian girls to love Africans, it has been done in absolute secrecy. I as well as you yourselves certainly know that these girls are under their parents’ strict instructions never to fall in love with Africans.

On the other hand, it is interesting to note that many Asian men in this country are loving and living with African girls without favorable pressure from the parents of those girls. This is the sort of attitude which I would welcome because it points the way to integration between Africans and Asians. Asian parents should leave their sons and daughters free to integrate with Africans, instead of imposing against them social restrictions that are completely out of date.

Although I am aware that this lack of integration between the Africans and the Asians is due to the extension of the Asian caste system and ways of life generally, the Government of the Republic of Uganda is of the firm view that if there is goodwill on the part of the Asian communities it is possible for you to reach an understanding whereby integration among all the people in this country would be easy. I am therefore appealing to you here as the representatives of all the Asian communities in Uganda to consider this point seriously in the interest of integration between you and the Africans at all levels. I am saying this because I know that if we do not integrate in this country the situation which would be built up would easily lead to serious racial disharmony.”

Source: Henckaerts, Jean-Marie. “Appendix III Documents on the 1972 Ugandan Mass Expulsion of Asians”. In Mass Expulsion in Modern International Law and Practice, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff, 1995)