News about Idi Amin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Shortly after 8 a.m., she got her reward: Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor award for his portrayal -- by turns charming, paranoid and shockingly cruel -- of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Lifestyle Movies 'Last King of Scotland' Usurps the Story of Idi Amin October 4, 2006 By Stephen Hunter ...

A Ugandan film about Archbishop Janani Luwum’s defiance of Idi Amin has won top honours at the Zanzibar International Film ...

The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70.

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Amin may have executed as many as 500,000 people during his time in power. He seized control of the African nation in a 1971 ...

Can Idi Amin be rehabilitated? Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by armed groups of exiles in 1979, died in Saudi Arabia in 2003. Ugandan President ...

Idi Amin, a military dictator, ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979. His regime is associated with brutality, high-profile murders such as that of Ben Kiwanuka, chief justice of Uganda and Janani Luwum, the ...