Page 10-Wednesday, May 2, 1979-The Michigan Daily Death TORORO, Uganda (AP)-The silence of death clung to the eastern Ugandan town of Tororo yesterday as the living crept out of their homes to bury the dead and look for the misiing. No dogs barked. No' cars moved. Shops were shut. On the town square, the doors of a looted bank stood open. Victorious Tanzanian soldiers lounged near a deserted church, propping their weapons on the porch of the parish wall. In the nearly deserted town, scores of houses stood looted and abandoned, doors and windows carelessly left open. Jm F jiMeii haunts rural Uganda A FEW TOWNSFOLK gathered on street corners, asking each other about The war began six months ago when knew they had no ci missing wives and children, and trying Amin's forces occupied a 710-square- commissioner, a tra to comprehend the savagery they sur- mile section of Tanzania. President ficer and a bank mar vived h Julius Nyerere's troops pushed the Prison officer Va By most estimates, hundreds of Ugandans out in two weeks and forced a came into town yest civilians were shot and bayoneted to steady retreat toward Kampala. family. "Two of my death here and in nearby villages in the "THEY WERE DEFEATED. The Now I am looking fo past three weeks. Residents described only way they could keep some kind of children. They are rr it as a last spasm of revenge by the power was by killing and looting," said "Some of Amin's r soldiers of Idi Amin, who knew they Zadock Ekwaro, 22, an electrician. clothes and pretende were doomed when Amin's army was What happened in Tororo happened new government.T pushed out of Kampala, the capital, on in dozens of towns as Amin's forces with Lule!' If you r April11. retreated north and east rather than way, you were dead, fight the Tanzanians and Ugandan "THE KILLING i exiles who installed Usufu Lula as provisional president. a week. Then the so But few towns were hit as hard as bush to hide and ca Tororo, an attractive community of kill." 2,000 known for a cement factory, a At the nearby popular tourist hotel and Tororo Rock, village of Busia, 10 a spire visible for miles. men lay near a crt g TANZANIANS AND Ugandan exiles covered them withg who liberated Tororo over the weekend looting the local cust . met scant resistance from Amin's few Men, women, and< remaining men. Some who tried to they removed door escape were incinerated when Tan- and bookcases frot zanian fire hit their truck. crowd gathered ina Tanzanians buried the last of their were using a sledgi enemies' bodies yesterday in common into a safe. graves, a row of 15 earthen mounds, Wycliffe Mukolwa each said to contain 10 or more bodies. himself as an uner There were crosses made of twigs. One said he took cha resident said many of Amin's soldiers uprising in Busia th died in a brief civilian revolt. der to Kenya over-th Civilians' bodies were buried where "TWO OF AMI they fell, survivors said. The town- trying to sell a jeep speople were free of Amin for the first and I said we'd buy time in eight years, but they were not the bush and slaug celebrating. Their losses were too high. knives while they THE MANAGER OF the Rock Hotel money," Mukolwe s summoned the few employees he could "We took theirg find and began sweeping up debris left other people who car by Amin's men, who used the hotel as a knives, and we kil barracks. Saturday. We took th Other residents talked about the past "About 20 morev weeks. "Any civilian on the road was a 'day when we car target," Vkwaro said. "If you were on your bicycle, they took you off and . tion. stabbed you. If you were in a car, they "THE TANZANIA AuGHUN made you get out, walk a short distan- do when they camec ce, and then shot you. Mukolwe said he TFUTH BAND "Women were even shot in the when it became cle DREAMS market. The only thing to do was to stay could no longer offe ng: in your home, and that's how we made ce. nt/The Dark Prince it." nd The Comforter HOTEL MANAGER Eric Ndugwa "When they killed erstanding said, "They were after heads of depar- all annoyed. We tments, anyone with ,responsibility. something about it.' They were desperate because they hance. The district de development of- nager were shot." aleriano Ekol, 38, erday to look for his brothers were shot, r my wife and four issing," he said. men put on civilian d they were for the They shouted, 'Up eplied in the same ' Ekol said. n town lasted about ldiers went into the me out at night to Ugandan border 0 bodies of Amin's ossroads. Villagers grass and turned to oms post. children laughed as rs, windows, files, m the building. A a room where men ehammer to break , 36, who described ployed policeman, rge of a civilian at opened the bor- e weekend. N'S soldiers were for $600. A friend it. We led them into ghtered them with were counting the aid. guns. Then we got rried clubs and long lled four more on heir rifles. were killed on Sun- ptured the police ANS had nothing to on Monday." e began the revolt ar that Amin's men r effective resistan- d this man, we were decided to do "1 He's the most renowned electric guitar virtuoso of the decade, and he's back again with his most exciting and adventurous musical undertaking in years. "Electric Dreams" features John McLaughlin at his inimitable best, joined by an ensemble of players, The One Truth Band, that together create a sound that's almost too good to be true. - On Columbia Records and Tapes.. 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Johnson, who proposed that two Barr claimed that "the court's only years of Student Legal Services funding power was asserted in throwing out the be approved by the Regents, said their election - it was their only chance adoption of one year instead was "the during the year to exercise control." lesser of two evils," claiming that "the "THERE'S A lot more to lose by not chances of any MSA fee passing on a certifying the elections," said Barr. "If mandatory basis would've been wiped they're not certified, the University will out without the intervention of the ad- control MSA's funds." ministration," because of election dif- But Sullivan said that he "understan- ficulties. ds that the Regents have a duty to make He also claimed that the main sure the money doesn't go anywhere question in this year's MSA elections is while there's no official student gover- "whether the degree of irregularity nment." warrants reelection," citing some Johnson has control of the $2.92 degree of irregularity in every election. assessment, per student passed in "I think that had there not been ad- MSA's election and approved by the ministration intervention, there would Regents, to go towards funding of MSA not-be any solution soon," said Johnson.