'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....