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☆ Opinion: The tyranny of Idi Amin -- and limits of a British welcome
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Opinion Lucy Fulford | Lucy Fulford | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
She is the author of a forthcoming book, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and How Ugandan Asians Changed Britain." In early August 1972, Uganda's brutal military dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country's entire Asian population -- including my grandparents. And a British welcomeBut when Amin gave his expulsion order, the British government didn't leap into action. Prince Philip meets Ugandan Asians at a British reception center in Kent, November 1972. Lucy FulfordFormer Prime Minister David Cameron has referred to Ugandan Asians as "one of the most successful groups of immigrants anywhere in the history of the world," a legacy many British Ugandan Asians are rightly proud of.
☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
  + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +25 min
Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.
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