IDI AMIN: A PROFILE OF A RUTHLESS DICTATOR, GENOCIDAL, A BIGOT, RACIST AND ISLAMIC FASCIST
ISLAMIC LEADER: IDI AMIN
MONSTROUS DICTATOR
Idi Amin, Murderous and Erratic Ruler of Uganda in the 70's, Dies in Exile
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN
Published: August 17, 2003
Idi Amin, whose eight-year reign of terror in Uganda encompassed widespread killing, torture and dispossession of multitudes and left the country pauperized, died yesterday in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, where he had lived for years in exile. He was believed to have been about 78 years old, though some reports said he was as old as 80.
Mr. Amin had been hospitalized and on life support since mid-July. He died from multiple organ failure, Reuters reported.
For much of the 1970's, the beefy, sadistic and telegenic despot had reveled in the spotlight of world attention as he flaunted his tyrannical power, hurled outlandish insults at world leaders and staged pompous displays of majesty.
By contrast, his later years were spent in enforced isolation as the Saudi Arabian authorities made sure he maintained a low profile. Mr. Amin, a convert to Islam, his four wives and more than 30 children fled Uganda just ahead of an invading force of Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian troops that overthrew his government. They went first to Libya, and eventually to Saudi Arabia.
By the time he had escaped with his life, the devastation he had wreaked lay fully exposed in the scarred ruins of Uganda. The number of people he caused to be killed has been tabulated by exiles and international human rights groups as close to 300,000 out of a total population of 12 million.
Those murdered were mostly anonymous people: farmers, students, clerks and shopkeepers who were shot or forced to bludgeon one another to death by members of death squads, including the chillingly named Public Safety Unit and the State Research Bureau. Along with the military police, these forces numbering 18,000 men were recruited largely from Mr. Amin's home region. They often chose their victims because they wanted their money, houses or women, or because the tribal groups the victims belonged to were marked for humiliation.
But there were also many hundreds of prominent men and women among the dead. Their killings were public affairs carried out in ways that were meant to attract attention, terrorize the living and convey the message that it was Mr. Amin who wanted them killed. They included cabinet ministers, Supreme Court judges, diplomats, university rectors, educators, prominent Catholic and Anglican churchmen, hospital directors, surgeons, bankers, tribal leaders and business executives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/world/idi-amin-murderous-and-erratic-ruler-of-uganda-in-the-70-s-dies-in-exile.html
How Idi Amin, the 'Butcher of Uganda' changed my life -- for goodMar 16, 2010 ... Idi Amin with the many medals he had awarded himself .... The Amin soldiers thought the Christians were about to counter-attack and fled the ...
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10030090.htm
GENOCIDE
Dictionary of Genocide: A-L - Page 12 - Samuel Totten, Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs - 2008 - 534 pages - Preview
AMIN, IDI Amin, Idi (c. 1925–2003). Idi Amin Dada ... All in all, the Amin regime was responsible for up to 300000 deaths, though some estimates reach as high as half a million. In June 1976,
http://books.google.com/books?id=7c2LHlpdMfAC&pg=PA12
Confronting Genocide - Page 47 - René Provost, Payam Akhavan - 2010 - 280 pages - Preview
Idi Amin has now become a kind of household name for evil and a precise analysis of what he did is often forgotten. ... to 300000 died.
http://books.google.com/books?id=C0U74u6SyRwC&pg=PA47
Encyclopedia of genocide: Volumes 1-2 - Page 349 - Israel W. Charny - 1999 - 345 pages - Preview
The Roots of Evil:The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. IDI AMIN Idi Amin [Dada] was born, it is believed, in 1935 in Koboko, a poor region of Uganda, to Muslim parents in the Katwa ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Q30HcvCVuIC&pg=PA349
The worst genocides of the 20th CenturyThe worst genocide of recent times was committed by many hutus, not just by their ... Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979), 300000. Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) ...
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
Idi Amin's Exile Dream
By RICCARDO ORIZIO
August 21, 2003
Op-Ed article by Riccardo Orizio says Idi Amin he met in exile in 1997 was unchanged from 'Big Daddy' of Uganda who, in 1970's, was proud of being most feared leader in Africa; says he expressed no regrets about 300,000 Ugandans he had killed; says he knew that luxury and quiet death in foreign city could not match real prize given dictator who manages to hang on; says such men know that time heals and world tends to forget; says surprising number of Ugandans were in favor of allowing him back ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/opinion/idi-amin-s-exile-dream.html?ref=idi_amin
ANTI CHRISTIAN
Encyclopedia of Protestantism: Volume 3 - Page 1169 - Hans Joachim Hillerbrand - 2004 - 2195 pages
Throughout the early modern period Christian missionaries and their converts were laying down their lives for their faith in Asia and ... Uganda in the 1970s dictator Idi Amin put thousands of Christians to death for their faith. ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=cbBx9DTtwSIC&pg=PA1169
The Least Likely: If God Can Use Them, He Can Use You! - Page 143 - Kevin Desmond - (Monarch Books) 2005 - 176 pages - Preview
Especially violent was the brutal dictator Idi Amin, who killed as many as 300000 of his fellow citizens. ... Idi Amin's attempt to stamp out all the Christians in his country forced Bishop Festo and his wife to flee Uganda. ..
http://books.google.com/books?id=a_BavuACGbkC&pg=PA143
ANTI WHITE RACIST CRUSADE
Research in African literatures: Volume 29 Page 133 - University of Texas at Austin. African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. African and Afro-American Research Institute, African Studies Association. African Literature Committee - 1998 - Snippet view
Watkins's Idi Amin in The Killing of Idi Amin, keeps Karl Theodor kneeling on the ground for a long time, ... anarchy onto the world with his undisguised support for the "crusade against whites" (Watkins 30) on the African continent.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=SKUpAQAAIAAJ&dq=crusade
RACIST ANTI ASIAN (INDIAN) 'ETHNIC CLEANSING' CAMPAIGN
I'm Not a Racist, But...: The Moral Quandary of Race - Page 37 - Lawrence Blum, Lawrence A. Blum - 2002 - 259 pages - Preview
Idi Amin, Uganda's ruler in the early 1970's, stirred up ethno-racial hatred among Ugandan blacks against the ethnic Indian population of Uganada (some native-born), and many were driven from the country...
http://books.google.com/books?id=36nxBjpi4R8C&pg=PA37
[ISLAMIC] FASCISM - ADMIRING HITLER
Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation, Moshe Ma'oz, Sussex Academic Press, 2009, Page 253
February 1972, the Muslim president of Uganda, Idi Amin, visited Qadhafi in Tripoli and received promises of military and financial assistance if he cut off relations with the "Zionist entity." In a joint statement, both presidents emphasized their desire to base their regimes on Islam and expressed their support for "the Arab struggle against Zionism and Imperialism." One month later, Idi Amin severed Uganda's diplomatic relations with Israel and called on all Israelis to leave Uganada.
Since then, Amin became a sworn enemy of Israel and the Jews... Amin's anti-Semitism reached a peak when, in September 1972, he sent a telegram to UN secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in which he applauded the massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and added that Germany was the most appropriate for this because it was where Hitler burned more than six million Jews...
... Amin's "Hitler telegram" elicited angry reactions in the world at large and many African laeders, including Muslims, denounced it. In September 1972, Amin declared the black Jewish community of Uganda, known as the Abayudaya (Jews), to be illegal and their synagogues were destroyed...
http://books.google.com/books?id=iNERGngsUOAC&pg=PA253
Nyerere and Africa: end of an era - Page 64 - Godfrey Mwakikagile - 2009 - 740 pages - Preview
Idi Amin... earned himself a place in history for his atrocities and buffooneries... An eccentric and bizarre character, he admired Hitler and tried to emulate him. He even wanted to build a monumenty to the Fuhrer...
And through the yeas, he also targeted assorted groups, including real and [p. 65] perceived enemies, across the spectrum, and praised Hitler as a true nationalist for persecuting and exterminating Jews. He even expelled almost all Asians from Uganda in 1972, including Ugandan citizens of Asian - mostly Indian and Pakistani - origin, and gave them only three weeks to leave the country. About 70,000 left Uganda...
President Julius Myerere of Tanzania condemned Idi Amin for expelling the Asians and called him a racist.
http://books.google.com/books?id=D4LcR4iOmcYC&pg=PA64
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