Idi Amin also known as the “Butcher of Uganda” was a Ugandan president, who during his 8 year old regime was responsible for a reign filled with mass killings and disorder. Idi Amin Dada was born in 1925 in Koboko, northwest city in Uganda. As a boy, Amin spent much time tending goats and working in the fields. His mother, an herbalist and diviner, raised him after his father deserted the family. Amin lacked good education so at the age of 21 joined Amin had little formal education before joining the King's African Rifles of the British colonial army in 1946 as an assistant cook. Amin was 193 cm tall and super strong so he quickly impressed his superiors by being a good swimmer and boxer He won the Uganda heavyweight boxing championship in 1951, a title he held for nine years. Before Uganda's independence in 1962, Amin became closely associated with the new nation's prime minister and president, Milton Obote. The two men worked to smuggle gold, coffee and ivory out of C...
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