Idi Amin

 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 Congo, but conflicts soon arose between them, and on January 25, 1971, while Obote was attending a meeting in Singapore, Amin staged a successful military coup.

Once in power, Idi Amin began mass executions upon Christian tribes that had been loyal to Obote. Moreover, he created various internal security forces, whose main purpose was to eliminate those who opposed his regime. In 1972, Amin expelled Uganda’s Asian population, which numbered between 50,000 and 70,000 (At the time, they owned 90% of the country's businesses and accounted for 90% of Ugandan tax revenues and Amin accused them of “milking Uganda’s money”.), which caused massive economic problems.

In October 1978, after seven years of brutal terror Amin ordered an attack on neighboring country, Tanzania but to Amin’s surprise this war was his biggest and last failure as a Ugandan president. His army was completely unprepared and was quickly forced back by Tanzanian soldiers, which eventually on April 11, 1979, overthrew the Ugandan government. Two days later Amin fled the city to settle in Saudi Arabia where he spent the last 24 years of his life, never punished for his crimes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36132151

https://www.biography.com/political-figure/idi-amin

https://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Amin-Idi.html

https://www.history.com/topics/africa/idi-amin

 

 




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  1. englishdiary13 marca 2022 05:52

    Your topics is dictators, if I remember correctly?
    Your posts shouldn't be so long. If you keep the links, you can always come back to the original source to recall the details while writing your essay. Here, just summarise the most important stuff.

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