Saturday 1 March 2008

Major Juma Aiga

A taxi driver at the time of the coup later a District Commissioner in Toro). Was the second in command when journalists N. Stroh and Robert Siedle went to investigate massacres in Mbarara. The commander Lt Col Ali Fadhul Warriss, was in Kampala at the time and was in close contact with Amin. Stroh and juma got into a heated argument. The two Americans were killed and were buried in a shallow grave nearby. Major Juma was later seen driveing 'stroh's ble Volkswagen in Mbarara. When the American Embasys in Kampala began inquiries a week later, the bodies were dug up from their grave, put into sacks and burned in the barracks. Their remains were dumped in a river. The car was burned and thrown into a mountain valley.

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