Jomo Kenyatta was the First to Expel Asians

[Omollo]

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Amin followed much later. Some misinformed bigot in Teheran claims Kenyatta never expelled Asians. Bloody fools everywhere in Teheran.

In 1967 Kenyatta passed the Kenyan Immigration Act 1967. This required all Asians who were not citizens to acquire work permits. These work permits were made impossible to acquire.

In the same year, Kenyatta had the Trade Licensing Act passed by parliament. It limited areas of the country where (non Kenyans) Asians could trade or do retail business. After some extensions and postponements, they were forced to meet the final deadline in 1968. Many left for UK.

Somebody please educate Panzer / Eddy Rabbit

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Amin followed much later. Some misinformed bigot in Teheran claims Kenyatta never expelled Asians. Bloody fools everywhere in Teheran.

In 1967 Kenyatta passed the Kenyan Immigration Act 1967. This required all Asians who were not citizens to acquire work permits. These work permits were made impossible to acquire.

In the same year, Kenyatta had the Trade Licensing Act passed by parliament. It limited areas of the country where (non Kenyans) Asians could trade or do retail business. After some extensions and postponements, they were forced to meet the final deadline in 1968. Many left for UK.

Somebody please educate Panzer / Eddy Rabbit

Omollo

They are not the same. Requiring a working permit of foreign workers isnt against the law anywhere. Making it hard to acquire papers may have been motivated by greed but by no means the same as what Idi Amin did. He outright expelled everyone (Asians) regardless of whether they were citizens or not, and the way in which he did it was inhumane by all accounts .

[Omollo]

Omollo

They are not the same. Requiring a working permit of foreign workers isnt against the law anywhere. Making it hard to acquire papers may have been motivated by greed but by no means the same as what Idi Amin did. He outright expelled everyone (Asians) regardless of whether they were citizens or not, and the way in which he did it was inhumane by all accounts .

The end and purpose of the amendments was no different. Enacting laws that target residents of the country - some who had been born in the country and by some other bureaucratic bottleneck remained unable to gain citizenship - was always a crime against humanity. What Kenyatta did was deny the residents income and then push them through the door.

Amin simply cut through the crap and simplified it