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Ugandans pray for (Idi) Amin

Posted by dennisw
On News/Activism 08/17/2003 4:08:52 PM PDT · 9 replies · 19+ views

24hournews ^ | 17/08/2003 17:12 - (SA)
Ugandans pray for Amin17/08/2003 17:12 - (SA) 1975 file picture of Idi Amin Related Articles Amin who? Assassinating Amin considered Idi Amin buried Few tears for Amin Death of 'Big Daddy' Kampala - Hundreds of Muslims on Sunday gathered at Uganda's main mosque to pray to God to judge leniently former president Idi Amin, who has died in exile in Saudi Arabia. The mosque at Old Kampala Hill, where British explorer Captain Lugard erected the first building of the city, overlooking the current city centre, was filled to capacity, with more people praying from outlying grounds. "To say that Amin...

Uganda newspaper - Idi Amin is dead

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/16/2003 2:33:32 PM PDT · 10 replies · 22+ views

The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | August 17, 2003 | David Kibirige
Former president Mr Idi Ami Dada is dead. Amin, 78, passed away at exactly 7 a.m. Ugandan time on Saturday. Sources said that Amin's latest wife, whom he married a few months ago, was at his bedside when he died. Her name was not disclosed. Amin's family members in Kampala declined to comment on the death of the former leader. They said one of his sons, Mr Jaffer Amin working with DHL courier company, is the only one authorised to talk about his father's death. Amin had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red...

UK considered killing Idi Amin

Posted by scotslad
On News/Activism 08/16/2003 1:50:25 PM PDT · 11 replies · 15+ views

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The UK's former foreign secretary Lord Owen has revealed he suggested assassinating Idi Amin when he was in government. The former Ugandan dictator died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Lord Owen, speaking on Radio 4's PM programme, said his proposal was seen as an outrageous suggestion. "I'm not ashamed of considering it, because his regime goes down in the scale of Pol Pot as one of the worst of all African regimes," Lord Owen said. Amin, who was variously described as 78 or 80 years old, had been in a coma at King Faisal...

Former Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Buried in Jeddah - Son

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/16/2003 10:45:35 AM PDT · 11 replies · 23+ views

Reuters | August 16, 2003
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was buried on Saturday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where he had earlier died in hospital after being critically ill for weeks. "He is buried. The family decided and we have buried him in Jeddah," Ali Amin told Reuters by telephone from his home in Jinja, 50 miles east of the Ugandan capital Kampala. An official at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah where Amin died told Reuters his body had been taken out for burial in the Red Sea city. One of Africa's bloodiest despots, Amin had...

Uganda Dictator Amin Dies at Saudi Hospital-Source

Posted by freepatriot32
On News/Activism 08/16/2003 3:15:46 AM PDT · 48 replies · 18+ views

wahington post ^ | 8.16.03 | John R. Bradley
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Former dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, died on Saturday in a Saudi hospital where he had been critically ill for weeks, a senior medical source said "We can confirm that Mr Idi Amin has died from complications due to multiple organ failure," the source at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Idi Amin Dead

Posted by MattAMiller
On News/Activism 08/15/2003 10:46:36 PM PDT · 219 replies · 45+ views

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Fox is quoting AP as saying that Idi Amin has died.

Idi Amin needs a kidney donor

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/13/2003 9:59:27 PM PDT · 30 replies · 53+ views

The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | August 14, 2003 | David Kibirige
Ex-leader's body has rejected two kidneys Former President Idi Amin Dada's life is hanging onto a haemo-dialysis machine, which acts as an external kidney, family sources have said. Amin needs a new kidney to stay alive, the sources added. Medical sources told The Monitor that a dialyser is a piece of medical equipment through which blood is passed for purification, and then back into the body. It is normally used with patients whose kidneys have failed. The dialyser removes impurities like urea, excess salts and uric acid. If the urea is not removed, it affects the brain among others...

Idi Amin - 'Big Daddy' living out his final act

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/10/2003 10:18:11 PM PDT · 11 replies · 60+ views

Daily Nation (Kenya) ^ | August 11, 2003 | Riccardo Orizio
'Big Daddy' living out his final act Idi Amin denied any atrocities and said he wanted to be remembered only as an athlete As the former dictator lies in a coma, Riccardo Orizio recalls an interview with the man who left Uganda awash with blood. Idi Amin once humiliated four Britons by making them carry his sedan chair. The African master of cruel farce and bloodstain parody has done it again. Apparently hours from death in a Saudi hospital, Idi Amin has emerged from a coma to defy the world once more with his unique form of black theatre....

Ugandan despot Idi Amin gets death threats at hospital

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/10/2003 10:42:04 AM PDT · 9 replies · 15+ views

Reuters | August 10, 2003 | John R. Bradley
JEDDAH, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Former dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, has received death threats at a Saudi hospital where he has been critically ill for weeks, a medical source said on Sunday. Staff at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah got the threats by telephone on Saturday, prompting mangers to post a permanent guard in Amin's room and another at the entrance to intensive care, the source said. "Security measures were dramatically increased in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital...

Idi Amin still in ICU

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/05/2003 10:59:32 AM PDT · 20 replies · 9+ views

Agence France-Presse ^ | August 5, 2003
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin remained in stable condition on Tuesday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in this Saudi Red Sea city, a hospital source said. "He is still in the intensive care unit, but he is in a stable condition," the source said. Amin, a Muslim now in his eighties, was admitted to hospital on July 18 and went into coma. Hospital sources said he came out of the coma six days later, but remained in critical condition under close watch by doctors. Hospital officials refused to specify...

DOCTORS GIVE UP ON IDI AMIN

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/03/2003 6:25:32 PM PDT · 41 replies · 58+ views

The New Vision (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | August 4th, 2003 | Alfred Wasike
DOCTORS have finally given ailing former President Idi Amin the status of “do not resuscitate”. This is the first time that Amin’s hitherto tight-lipped doctors have come out explicitly about his failing health. Medical sources at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, a top Saudi medical centre in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, told Reuters and Sky News yesterday that “should he encounter further life threatening problems, resuscitation will not be attempted.” Amin, in his late 70s and liable for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, has now been declared by doctors at the posh...

Idi Amin's sickness divides his family

Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/02/2003 11:34:47 AM PDT · 2 replies · 14+ views

The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | August 2, 2003
Amin sickness divides family Deep misunderstandings have developed among family members of former President Idi Amin Dada, currently in a coma in Saudi Arabia. Sources in the Amin family told Sunday Monitor that the issue of Amin’s failing health had been kept secret for three months. Sunday Monitor on July 20 exclusively broke news of Amin’s sickness to the chagrin of some family members. “When the news broke out some family members wrongly accused Madina Amin [one of the former president’s wives] of having issued a press statement about mzee’s sickness to media organisations in Uganda,” said a family...

Ugandan dictator Amin in critical condition-source

Posted by yonif
On News/Activism 08/02/2003 6:03:46 AM PDT · 37 replies · 17+ views

Reuters ^ | 02 Aug 2003 12:12:29 GMT
JEDDAH, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, is in "near-death condition" at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, a medical source said on Saturday. "He is alive but remains in a near-death condition in a coma," the source at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters, adding that Amin was on a ventilator. Amin came out of a coma last week and was said then to be in serious condition.