![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/we-were-given-90-days-to-leave-our-homes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_Nisha2002.jpg&description=Nisha Popat was one of tens of thousands of Asians who were forcibly expelled from Uganda when she was just nine-years-old - along with her family she came to the UK and made a life for themselves One Brit has recalled her memories of the harrowing expulsion of Ugandan Asians from the country, that led to thousands fleeing to Britain, and making a home here. Nisha Popat was just nine-years-old when she and tens of thousands of others were given just 90 days to uproot themselves and their families and leave Uganda. Then President Idi Amin took the decision on the backdrop of growing anti-Asian racism in the region. Such large numbers of Asian people were in the East African country because of a deliberate choice by the British government over a century prio. As such, many of the families who suddenly faced having their homes torn from them, were British, and around 27,000 people emigrated to the UK. Nisha and her family were one of them. The 60-year-old from Leicester lived in a town not far from the Uganda's capital, and told the Mirror that her childhood before the expulsion had been 'idyllic' and "carefree". But everything changed on August 4, 1972, when Amin gave the order. Even then Nisha's parents kept her 'cocooned' from the worst of the changing tides in her country, but he expulsion led to 'a lot of tension in the house. 'I knew something was happening, my parents were whispering to each other - which they didn't do before … my sisters who had come from England were older, so they knew what was happening. 'It was when the curfew started and mum didn't want to be out all the time … you couldn't just run around and do things but now you would be picked up and couldn't go out at certain times.' Even as a child, Nisha knew something was up, and she began to listen in to her mum and the other ladies' conversations where they spoke about getting ready. Her older sisters had studied in Leicester, but returned to Uganda, they had struggled with the growingly oppress){kind=link}
Nisha Popat was one of tens of thousands of Asians who were forcibly expelled from Uganda when she was just nine-years-old – along with her family she came to the UK and made a life for themselves
One Brit has recalled her memories of the harrowing expulsion of Ugandan Asians from the country, that led to thousands fleeing to Britain, and making a home here.
Nisha Popat was just nine-years-old when she and tens of thousands of others were given just 90 days to uproot themselves and their families and leave Uganda. Then President Idi Amin took the decision on the backdrop of growing anti-Asian racism in the region.
Such large numbers of Asian people were in the East African country because of a deliberate choice by the British government over a century prio. As such, many of the families who suddenly faced having their homes torn from them, were British, and around 27,000 people emigrated to the UK.
Nisha and her family were one of them. The 60-year-old from Leicester lived in a town not far from the Uganda’s capital, and told the Mirror that her childhood before the expulsion had been “idyllic” and “carefree”.