Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take ...

It’s 50 years since a tense international standoff that brought together a British lecturer, an infamous dictator, and a ...

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President Idi Amin of Uganda speaks at a news conference during a visit to Damsacus, Syria, on Oct. 16, 1973. Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by ...

Cory Turner discovers another film about Amin, the 1974 documentary General Idi Amin Dada. Accessibility links. ... He put them in the hotel in the center of Kampala. And there was the army around ...

See how Idi Amin used military force to seize power and build a dictatorship in Uganda. See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in ...

“Whoever was found to have been in the army of Idi Amin, you were either caught or you were shot at … it was not safe. Things were so bad,” he says.

Idi Amin and Israel. ... Britain’s colonial army, as an assistant cook. But his huge frame — he was 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed more than 225 pounds — soon landed him on the battlefield.

Idi Amin. Latest; Search. Search. Clear this text input. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown. In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence.

It's a classic riff, because it gets exactly at the artist's dilemma in any portrait of evil: Even monsters can dance. And they are dads, have loving kids, wives, pals and human eccentricities.

Idi Amin. Latest; Search. Search. Clear this text input. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown. In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence.