Story: Refugees
As part of his policy to ‘Africanise’ Uganda in the early 1970s, the dictator Idi Amin expelled Asians who had lived there for several generations. Among the more than 200 Ugandan Asians who came to New Zealand were members of the Patel family, pictured here.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP/1972/5327/5
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
