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

    08/10/2003 10:18:11 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 11 replies · 521+ 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....
  • Uganda goverment says son of Idi Amin starts rebel group

    07/26/2003 9:46:49 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 5 replies · 320+ views
    The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | July 27, 2003 | Frank Nyakairu
    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...