A snap Lord Patel took of Idi Amin and its his beautiful wife in February 1972 in front of the Brandenburger Gate, Berlin. Amine, the Ugandan Light Heavyweight boxing champion 51-60, Sandhurst educated was the first colored soldier in Uganda to become an officer.
Brigadier Pierino Okoya, the deputy chief of the army and Amin's sole rival among senior army officers and his wife are shot dead at their home January 25th 1970.
He took power on 25th January 1971 in an Israeli backed coup d'etat in 1971 whilst pipe smoking President Milton Obote was out of the countryat the Commonwealth Conference in Singapore.
His first overseas trip as President is a state visit to Israel.
He embarked on a crazy journey of bloodletting, savagery and crafty biffonery ...nobody was spared, and one was immune from the murder squads. The chief justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka, was dragged from the High Court by soldiers and never seen again. The vice-chancellor of the University of Makerere, once the finest university in black Africa, disappeared. When Janan Luwuum, Uganda’s Anglican Archbishop, spoke out against the reign of terror, Amin publicly denounced him. The archbishop’s bullet-riddled body, still in ecclesiastical robes, was later dumped in a Kampala mortuary. Amin also killed and dismembered Kay, the feistiest of his many wives, and dumped her remains in the boot of the car of her lover, who was also killed.
After ejecting the Asians, the economy goes in free fall and over 300,000 are killed by Amin. Amin invades Tanzania in 1978 and the invading Tanzanian forces take Kampala on 11 April 1979. Amin flees to Libya, taking his four wives, several of his 30 mistresses and about 20 of his children.
Besides a huge death toll, Amin has left Uganda with an annual inflation rate of 200%, a national debt of US$320 million, an agricultural sector in tatters, closed factories and ruined businesses.
He dies in exile in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 16th August 2003.
Mugabe is way up there with him, 250,000 Matabele were killed were killed nu imported North Korean mercenaries. No-one dare calculate the killings today as hundreds of thousands have fled to surroundings countries.
.... and let's not even mentionthe ranch owned by Prince Harry's girlfriends family, Charles Davy ans his beautiful daughter Chelsey just back from the beach at Acapulco and recovering fro her Rand 250,000 21st. birthday bash - the old Justin von Leibig place, the man who invented the OXO cube - twice the size of Surrey where safari mad Americans kill tethered animals. NO, we won't mention that .. but you can read about it here
We won't mention Mengistu the Dictator and Butcher of Ethiopia, spirited out by the Americans to Kampala who is the architect of Operation Murambatsvina (Shona for "drive out the filth") in which the police and army destroyed shanty towns and cracked down on unlicensed traders after Mugabe decreed that they needed to be forcibly "re-ruralised" to regain their peasant roots... and who have diappeared off the face of the earth.... also Operation Maguta ( which in the double speak of the double ungood means "live well", prompted by a shortfall in maize production since the white owned and run commercial farms were destroyed. Maguta means villagers on communal land are compelled by Army thugs them to grow maize and sorghum, which they must then sell to the army-run Grain Marketing Board(GMB)
... but you can read about it here.
" ......recent cases, a $90 million project to overhaul two giant turbines at the Dora power plant in Baghdad failed after completion because employees at the plant did not know how to operate the turbines properly and the wrong fuel was used."
