![]() ![]() As Kyemba notes, eyes were gouged out, organs removed, limbs chopped off, and all for no reason other than to make sure that Amin's rule was absolute. The latest estimates were that 300,000 Ugandans were killed under Amin's rule, many in as brutal a form as possible. However, in the time worn tradition of tyrants, who only seem capable of becoming even more tyrannical, that soon changed. Kyemba documents the rise of Amin, how at first he seemed to genuinely want to improve the lives of Ugandans. His expulsion of the Asian merchant class was quite possibly the greatest single economic blunder made in the history of the continent. Under his reign, the Ugandan economy collapsed, what should have been a prosperous nation was turned into one of the poorest performing economies. They were allowed to steal anything from anybody with killing their victims largely acceptable. ![]() He created a cadre of brutal henchmen whose only purpose was to terrorize the population into submission and grow rich in the process. In a continent where brutal, murderous dictators are the norm, Amin was one of the worst. I had read this book when it first came out and the movie prompted me to read it again. Amin was basically an uneducated thug who managed to take control of a nation and destroy it. Although some of the characters in the movie are fictitious, the general plotline is accurate. My fiancé and I recently went to see the Academy Award winning movie, "The Last King of Scotland." In it Forest Whitaker gives a vivid and accurate portrayal of Idi Amin, the brutal former dictator of Uganda. ![]()
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