Idi amin biography video
Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from to...
Ugandan president Idi Amin Dada was a violent dictator whose regime was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in his country's history.
I Knew Idi Amin
To some, he was a strong, decisive leader, at his core an African nationalist. To others, he was simply an ignorant, vicious buffoon, the “butcher of Africa” who sent hundreds of thousands to horrifying deaths.
So who was Idi Amin, Uganda’s former president and one of Africa’s most notorious leaders?
He'd feed his enemies to the crocodiles.
He'd have the husbands of women he fancied murdered and shot on his own orders. He had people incarcerated by the secret police and tortured before being bludgeoned to death It's impossible for me to minimise just how bad this man was.
by Brian Barron
He began his career in the British Colonial Army and with virtually no education, rose from chef’s assistant to the most powerful position in the country.
Through a combination of brute force and the encouragement of countries like Britain, he became the president of Uganda in
“I think everyone, especially the British, who had run the place for dec