Standing on the tarmac waiting to board a plane that would take him to a life of safety, seven-year-old Mayur Seta knew little of the horror unfolding in his Ugandan homeland.
And he knew nothing of the nation that had opened its arms to him and 27,000 others like him, as they fled the despotic dictatorship of Idi Amin.
Britain was one of the countries to offer a home and a future to the 80,000 Ugandan Asians given just 90 days to leave in a brutal decree issued 50 years ago this week by the “Butcher of Africa”.
