Amnesty International has urged the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to study gross violations of human rights in Uganda since the military coup of Gen. Idi Amin on Jan. 25, 1971. A 1500-word report by Amnesty International says that estimates of people murdered since 1971 range between 50,000 and 300,000. Torture is almost routine practice and victims are killed under torture or shot.
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