For now, Amin must be smiling in his grave. The child who called him short did not become very tall when he grew up ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...

Idi Amin, whose eight years as president of ... A one-time heavyweight boxing champion and soldier in the British colonial army, Amin seized power on January 25, 1971, overthrowing President ...

Britain's Lord Owen, Foreign Secretary from 1976 to 1979, has revealed that he once raised the prospect of having Idi Amin assassinated. The then Labour government was trying to distance itself ...

However, when confronted by a reveller, a high-ranking army officer speaking in Kiswahili ... invaded Uganda to overthrow Idi Amin's government in the 1970s, the Kiswahili variety, as used ...

Neither President Museveni nor members of his former guerrilla organisation, the Front for National Salvation (Fronasa) ...

After a long period of civil war and chaos under the military dictatorship of Idi Amin in 1970s and the presidency ... Museveni's National Resistance Army swept through the countryside and finally ...

Atrocities committed under ex-President Idi Amin's brutal eight-year rule and by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are to be documented. "We want to put the record straight," Uganda Tourism Board ...

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