Vision Group launches Idi Amin series

By Charles Etukuri
 
Vision Group will this week launch a new exciting series that seeks to highlight the experiences of Ugandans during the eight-year period under Former President Idi Amin ruled Uganda. Amin ruled Uganda from January 25, 1971 to April 11, 1979 before being ousted by a combined force of Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian forces.

The series will run both in the Saturday and Sunday Vision.

New Vision’s Managing Editor Ben Opolot said the new series was being launched as part of the companies’ vision of enhancing society.

Sunday Vision editor Charles Wendo said reflecting upon the events of the 1970s is an important way to think about the country’s future.

“The eight years of Idi Amin rule is an important part of our history and it greatly shaped the decades that followed. We are retelling the stories through the experiences of the people who were affected in different ways by Amin’s regime,” he said.

Today’s Saturday Vision will carry the story of .. Tomorrow Sunday Vision will carry the life story of the late Hon. Shaban Kirunda Nkutu, a former minister who was abducted, killed and buried in an unknown place in 1973. His relatives only recovered the body only a few years ago.

For the first time since the murder, a relative who was with Shaban at the time of the kidnap narrates the story.