At peril in were 9. In , scholar A. These were dwarfed, however, by those recorded during two periods when Milton Obote ruled as president from to and from to A second melancholy fact, the murders have not stopped. Death by staged auto accident and poisoning remain tools of political repression well into the 21 st Century. The History and Public Policy Program strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, to facilitate scholarship based on those records, and to use these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.
Read more. Close Search Search. Show Streaming. Sources and Methods. Explore More. External link. Blog post. By John Martin on April 19, General Idi Amin speaking in rural area after seizing power in Uganda in He stood 6 feet, 4 inches tall and was a Ugandan light-heavyweight boxing champion from to , as well as a swimmer. He soon became notorious among fellow soldiers for his overzealous and cruel military interrogations. Eventually, he made the highest rank possible for a Black African serving in the British army.
From until , he served in the British action against the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. Before Uganda's independence in , 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, , while Obote was attending a meeting in Singapore, Amin staged a successful military coup. Amin became president and chief of the armed forces in , field marshal in and life president in Amin began his rule with popular actions, including freeing several political prisoners.
His victims soon came to include people from every order and rank, including journalists, lawyers, homosexuals, students and senior bureaucrats. He expelled all Asians from Uganda in , an action that led to the breakdown of his country's economy. It is believed that some , people were killed during his presidency.
In July he was personally involved in the hijacking of a French airliner to Entebbe. In October Amin ordered an attack on Tanzania. Aided by Ugandan nationalists, Tanzanian troops eventually overpowered the Ugandan army. When some fled across the border into Tanzania, Amin accused Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere of instigating the unrest and retaliated by annexing the Kagera Salient, a strip of territory north of the Kagera River, in November Two weeks later, Nyerere mobilized a counter-offensive to recapture the land, and drove the Ugandan Army out with the help of Ugandan exiles.
The battle raged into Uganda, and on April 11, , Amin was forced to flee when Kampala was captured. Although he originally sought refuge in Libya, he later moved to Saudi Arabia, where he lived comfortably until his death of multiple organ failure in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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