Suspects in Uganda given grisly instant justice

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Debra K. Piot

May 6, 1980

Kampala, Uganda

Mobs of residents here are burning suspected criminals in grisly streetcorner justice -- part of a wave of terror and increasing lawlessness caused by political unrest in this East African nation. Killings have reached 100 in the past two weeks.