'Five decades after the first evacuation flight of Ugandan Asians touched down in the United Kingdom, their story has been held up as a triumph of British generosity and migratory success. But the back story is less heroic,' writes Lucy Fulford | Analysis
Updated 0731 GMT September 18, 2022
Lucy Fulford is a journalist and filmmaker focused on migration, conflict and climate. She is the author of a forthcoming book,"The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and How Ugandan Asians Changed Britain." The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN. The plane carrying 193 passengers circled down over London Stansted Airport, where a cluster of journalists were waiting to document its arrival. Stepping onto the tarmac under typically gray English skies, the families clutched their scant possessions in briefcases and boxes, saris flowing in the wind.
Five decades after the first evacuation flight of Ugandan Asians touched down in the United Kingdom on September 18, 1972, their story has been held up as a triumph of British generosity and migratory success.But the back story is less heroic, as the British government first tried to send them anywhere else. In early August 1972, Uganda's brutal military dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country's entire Asian population -- including my grandparents.
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