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Idi Amin Dada (1925 August16 2003) was the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army. He took power in a military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote.

Amin's rule was characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000.

Dissent within Uganda and Amin's attempt to annex the Kagera province of Tanzania in 1978 led to the Uganda-Tanzania War and the demise of his regime. Amin fled first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia.

On July 20, 2003, one of Amin's wives, Madina, reported that he was in a coma and near death at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She pleaded with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to allow him to return to die in Uganda. Museveni replied that Amin would have to "answer for his sins the moment he was brought back." Amin died in Saudi Arabia in August 2003. He was buried in Ruwais Cemetery in Jeddah.

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[NatalieBuberger]

oh my god I think that's so sad the story =(( you have to watch the last king of Scotland with James McAvoy really sad =((

[prettylilpuppet]

@NatalieBuberger

I'll check it out.

[razvanescu86]

@trsdo amin was a criminal

[asrafoo]

milton was a communist.that say all about who made this idiot the master of uganda. just like in togo ,angola congo a,d else where those who claimed freedom where not permitted to stay in power

[TaviYamato]

british criminals 

[therealbitchpudding]

@NatalieBuberger That movie is unrealistic. Smh

[rapartist43]

@HistoryHmoobGuy Cracker is a racist term. You don't seem to have learned ANYTHING of Africa's history. Noone called you nigga or kaffer, right? Why calling whites crackers then? You seem to be worse than we used to be. What a tragedy!

[youracocksucker]

@williameva true O.G. my ass more like serial killer....

[Rixera]

As a Ugandan born abroad i'd like to say that this animal of a man was a scumbag! I know for a fact that he had some of my politically involved relatives hanged and for that nothing would make me happier than to spit and stomp the shit out of his grave!

[HistoryHmoobGuy]

@NatalieBuberger who gives a fuck about some cracker and his counrty ?