TORONTO – Bell Media announced today it will air the one-hour documentary Expelled: My Roots in Uganda with Omar Sachedina on CTV, CTV News Channel, CTV.ca, CTVNews.ca, and the CTV News apps on Nov. 4 at 9 p.m.
“Fifty years after his mother and thousands of other Indians were expelled from the only home they had known in Uganda, CTV’s Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Omar Sachedina takes viewers on an intimate journey back to where him mother was born,” a press release explains.
The hour-long news special, which was filmed this summer, is led by Sachedina (above), while Shelley Ayres serves as producer.
Sachedina’s mother Salma and sister Nafilia make the trip to Uganda with him, “marking the first time his mother has returned since her expulsion in 1972,” the release says. “That year, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ousted the Ugandan Asian community from the country, forcing Sachedina’s parents to uproot their lives and immigrate to Canada.”
The special also features interviews with immigrants who are now in Canada after being expelled from Uganda and insight from Michael Molloy, a Canadian visa officer who “helped lead the operation that brought over 6,000 people to Canada, with the last chartered flight leaving Uganda for Canada on November 6, 1972,” the press release says.
“I want every Canadian to know this story, because it is one of determination, of strength, and of resilience. It’s also a story of how immigration and immigrants add to the richness of this country,” said Sachedina, in the release. “It also speaks to the kindness, compassion and generosity of those who welcomed them as they built their new lives.”
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