Who was the dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979?

I was friends with a girl at school whose family escaped his murderous regime, he put out a warrant for her father's arrest & execution, because he was a professor of biology at the University in Kampala, luckily he had friends & family who managed to protect & save him & his family, they managed to come to Australia as refugees...

Player #17957884, yes like many many rulers too many are not held accountable for their horrendous acts.

Idi Amin played main role in the Air France plane hijacking in 1976, during the flight from Paris to Tel Aviv. The Israeli army, in one of the most heroic operation, succeeded to rescue all the kidnappers from Uganda, thousands kilometres from Israel.

Forrest Whitaker starred in the biopic about him. He was so good in that role.

I was in my early twenties and lived in Tanga when he declared war against Tanzania. But with the President Nyerere of Tanzania managed a victory against Idi Amin and Amin escaped to Libya & it's leader was Gaddafi by then.

Davy, Livingston, This was because Idi Amin had a long & deep fascination with Scotland, I suspect no one really knows the answer why..

Joseph Isr., Sadly, I believe, one woman was left behind as she was in hospital.

tinahoopraj1234, In the movie, due to infidelity, he chopped his wife's arms & legs off & then put her legs where her arms should be & put her arms where her legs should be..it looked horrible

I believe he once offered to add Princess Anne to his harem. She was supposed to be honoured and grateful!

I think this author, David Wilkes, wrote all the explanation by himself (or herself) Based on the first paragraph, where "an Ugandan" instead of "a Ugandan was typed", some parts of the explanation are either partially or entirely incorrect (or even partially or entirely correct) He left out some details and information in the explanation because there are other factors leading Idi Amin to become dictator (not just the last paragraph and the last few lines there)

there was a song about him, not sure who performed it but I'm going to go look it up now.

* Seshati *, As in the orange blob who occupied the WH for 4 miserable years!

akeem , can you prove he cannibal or NOT???

Purple Kitty, that is the problem when the west don't like a leader. They will paint him in most unthinkable names you would ever imagine. Idi Amin like every leader including in the west have many flaws but western media exaggerated his crime. They made a movie of him in the 80s and protrayed him as cannibal which is a blatant lie.

Joseph Isr., do you mean the kidnapped

When Idi Amin over threw Milton Obote, I lived in Tanzania. We were asked to make dungeons for our safety. It was a scary time t

* Seshati *, so true

It is said that he was a cannibal

Purple Kitty, explains why he had syphilis & various other STD's

Joseph Isr., rescued all the kidnapper's?

Uninitialized, Prima Nocta though somewhat difficult in a country the size of Uganda.

I'm sure the military had a hand in his demeans. but some people are just bad to the bone