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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Doctors said Idi Amin, blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans during his bloody dictatorship in the 1970s, was still alive in a Saudi hospital Tuesday. "He is still in intensive care and alive," a Saudi doctor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters. He refused to give details on whether Amin was in critical condition. Amin came out of coma last week and was said to be then in serious condition. Earlier last week, the hospital said Amin might not survive. Amin has lived in exile, mainly in...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Doctors said Idi Amin, blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans during his bloody dictatorship in the 1970s, was still alive in a Saudi hospital Tuesday. "He is still in intensive care and alive," a Saudi doctor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters. He refused to give details on whether Amin was in critical condition. Amin came out of coma last week and was said to be then in serious condition. Earlier last week, the hospital said Amin might not survive. Amin has lived in exile, mainly...

Uncertainty continues about the condition of the ailing former Ugandan President Idi Amin. One Ugandan newspaper is reporting that plans are under way for a massive funeral in the northern Ugandan town of Arua. The Sunday Vision newspaper says that in spite of reports last week that Mr Amin had emerged from a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital, the family have gone ahead and earmarked a spot where the former president will be buried. The spot is right next to the grave of Amin's elder brother, Ramadhan, who died last year. Medical staff at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital...

Amin son starts rebel group - govt Brig. Kale Kayihura has said exiled former president Idi Amin’s son is training a rebel group to attack Uganda from DR Congo. Kayihura is the UPDF Chief Political Commissar and former commander of the Ugandan troops in eastern DR Congo. “We have information that Taban Amin is recruiting and has set a base near the Uganda border,” Kayihura told Sunday Monitor yesterday. He said Taban is working with the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC) and a local rebel group RCD-ML led by Mbusa Nyamwisi. Nyamwisi is now part of Dr Congo President Joseph...

Idi Amin is said to have ordered the murder of 100,000 Ugandans in the 1970s, but death has not yet claimed the former strongman himself. Last week, as it emerged that Britain had made secret plans for an airborne assault on Uganda during the tense summer of 1972, Amin was in the intensive care unit of King Faisal Specialist Hospital, having been admitted with high blood pressure. After five days in a coma, however, he is once again breathing without the aid of a ventilator, though doctors say his condition remains "critical", and his sons and daughters are staying...

Profile: Idi AminFor Idi Amin, in defiance of Sir Donald Wolfit, comedy is easy but dying is all but impossible. A week ago, he was in a coma and not expected to make it to the end of the month, and newspapers were dusting off their 1970s obituaries and hoping they'd got all his titles and honorifics in the right order: His Excellency Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Conqueror of the British Empire and King of Scotland. But the King isn't dead, the Conqueror hasn't conked. On Friday, the old monster emerged from his coma presumably to...

JEDDAH: The condition of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is still serious but improving, medical officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have said. "He came out of coma on Wednesday and is no longer using an artificial respirator. But he is still in intensive care and his condition is still serious," a hospital source told Reuters news agency. AFP news agency were told a similar thing by another unnamed source. The hospital had announced that Mr Amin might not survive after he went into a coma last week. Medical staff at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital told BBC that they would...

As Idi Amin lay in a coma Wednesday, Medford resident Jay Mullen fondly remembered the day he punched the former Ugandan dictator in the nose. But Mullen, then a CIA agent serving in Uganda, didn’t fear for his life. Mullen dealt the accidental blow as he and Amin swam in a backstroke competition at a social club swimming pool that both families frequented. A poor swimmer, Amin lost the race but laughed it off, Mullen recalled. "Everyone thinks ‘You punched Idi Amin in the nose? Why weren’t you killed? How can you have fun with a guy like Idi Amin?’...

13:05 Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin out of a coma in a Saudi hospital but still in serious condition (Reuters)

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator, has been given permission to return to die in the country he destroyed. Should he die before he can go home to the country he fled 24 years ago, Amin's body will be repatriated from Saudi Arabia for burial in accordance with a request from one of his wives, the Ugandan government said yesterday. Amin, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own citizens during a nine-year reign of terror in the 1970s, has been in a coma for five days. Doctors said he was in "a vegetative state and...

Cabinet to rule on Amin's fate The Cabinet will decide former President Idi Amin's fate. Mr Amin is ailing in Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile. His family recently asked the government to let him return and "die from home". The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told reporters yesterday that the Cabinet would debate whether Amin should return home, dead or alive. Nsibambi spoke to reporters at Parliament. According to Nsibambi, it is better for Amin to be treated in Saudi Arabia because medical services are better there. The prime minister said that if the former president died,...

Ms Madina Amin yesterday said that her husband is ailing because of advanced age and overweight. She said that Mr Idi Amin Dada, 80, who was yesterday still in coma, weighs about 220 kilogrammes. “At his age and then the fact that he is overweight there is little hope that he will fully recover. Salongo is so overweight that am sure it is part of the problem,” Madina told The Monitor yesterday as she prepared to travel to Saudi Arabia to attend her husband. She said that Amin gained a lot of weight because he had stopped working out....

Former Ugandan leader Idi Amin - whose 1971 to 1979 regime was one of the bloodiest in African history - reportedly remains in a coma after three days on a life support machine. A hospital official told the Associated Press news agency that his condition had deteriorated on Monday after stabilising on Sunday. "He is still alive. But he remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit" at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, one of Saudi Arabia's top medical centres, another medical source at the hospital was quoted as saying by...

The former dictator ougandais Idi Amin Dada in the coma in Saudi Arabia The former dictator ougandais Idi Amin Dada, with the capacity of 1971 to 1979, is in the coma and under respiratory assistance in Saudi Arabia, indicated Saturday to the AFP one of his wives. "It was said to me that it was in the coma and under respiratory assistance. We still await information ", declared Madina Amin, joined by telephone to Kampala. Idi Amin Dada lives in exile in Saudi Arabia since it was renversé."Nous contacted the government (of Kampala), in order to ask whether, in...

They were reviled by much of the world and responsible, collectively, for tens of thousands of deaths of those they ruled with brute force and terror. In the end, though, these dictators fled into exile. A look at a few of the most notable: IDI AMIN - One of the 20th century's most notorious dictators, Amin presided over the murder of more than 400,000 of his fellow Ugandans and allegedly ate some of their flesh. His eight-year bloody reign ended in 1979, when Tanzanian forces stormed Uganda in retaliation for an attack by Amin's troops. Saudi Arabia offered him...

[The obese former despot wants to return from his exile in ******** Saudi Arabia ******** to see out his final years in Uganda. Kivumbi Amule, Amin's younger brother, said the former dictator had told him of his plans during a telephone conversation from Jeddah. "He said he wants to return to his country and stay with his people," Mr Amule said. "His plans have reinvigorated him. His former voice came through so clearly, it was as if he were president again."] Idi Amin's island of slaughter for sale (Filed: 02/06/2002)  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/02/wamin02.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/06/02/ixworld.html The holiday retreat where the Ugandan despot tortured and...

The island of Mukusu, a spectacular 23-acre paradise in Lake Victoria, is for sale at a mere £214,000. The only deterrent to prospective buyers might be the fact that it was once owned by Idi Amin and used by the despot as a combined holiday home and torture camp.Twenty-three years after the end of Amin’s brutal eight-year dictatorship, Mukusu has been put on the market to boost tourism and shed once and for all the stigma of its association with “Africa’s Adolf Hitler”.The island, surrounded by the crocodile-infested waters of Lake Victoria, is being marketed as a perfect site for...