Escape from Uganda Preview

At a reunion picnic, Natasha Fatah interviews Asian Ugandans who fled their native country. (Courtesy Mark Ulster)

On the Victoria Day long weekend, at a park outside Toronto, there was a gathering of hundreds of Asian Ugandans. They had all been expelled from their native country in 1972. They had been ordered to leave by the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. And he had given them only 90 days to get out. Here are some of the voices from the reunion picnic.

Promised Land airs on CBC Radio One and Sirius 137 starting next Monday, June 28. The show will bring you the escape stories of people who had to risk everything to become Canadian.