Amid rising shortages, the economy took huge hits. Foreign misadventures by Gaddafi cost Libya heavily. Unfortunately, much of all this was applauded by the Soviet bloc and camp followers. If all this ...

Idi Amin, the sadist and mass murderer who ran Uganda from 1971to 1979, died in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, shortly after his son made a globalplea for a kidney transplant to save the old thug. ... Amin ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.

Idi Amin was a figure of fun to the West, but a tyrant who condemned his country - Uganda - to a decade of fear. Home. News. Sport. Radio. TV. Weather. ... As his capital fell, he slipped through the ...

Uganda’s Idi Amin shocked the world with atrocities, then fled with his wives to a quiet middle-class life. The Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos lived in luxury in Hawaii.

Amin repeatedly sent his troops to invade neighbouring Tanzania, and in 1979, Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles counter-attacked, sending Amin into exile. Amin fled to Libya, then Iraq, before ...

The terrified prisoner screams as the large metal hooks are pushed through his chest by Idi Amin's merciless henchmen. ... Instead, Amin fled to Libya where he spent the next 12 months.

President Idi Amin of Uganda speaks at a news conference during a visit to Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 16, 1973. ... He fled to Libya, then Iraq and finally Saudi Arabia, ...

Two decades after the death of leader Idi Amin, some Ugandans want to memorialize him, despite a documented record of human rights abuses. A contest erupts in Uganda over tainted legacy of Idi ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Can Idi Amin be rehabilitated? The question is animating some in this East African country two decades after the death of one of Africa’s most infamous leaders. Amin ...