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Idi Amin's Biography

Idi Amin Dada (c.1925[A] – 16 August 2003) was the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army. He took power in a military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote.

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  • News Source: The Guardian | 6 days ago
    Now people are beginning to realise that there are more important things than choice and the free market 'I don't matter really,' says John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York. 'What really matters are the things I'm doing.' Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/
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    The Government has earned over sh400b from the privatisation of state parastatals started over a decade ago. The sh400b includes the weekend deal between the Government and the Mehta Group Companies, which brought the number of firms divested to 135.

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  • Blog Source: reason.com | 3 days ago
    About a decade ago, I picked up a copy of John Follain's wonderfully entertaining potboiler Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, a precise catalog of the brutal.
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com | 3 days ago
    Ugandan officials were offended Sunday after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered out loud whether Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was truly as brutal as he was reputed to be.
  • Blog Source: barrypittard.wordpress.com | 3 days ago
    say very little, as one would expect of a virtually Soviet-style, cultic organization, with a leader and a deputy chairman who can both wax lyrical about how the former dictator of Uganda Idi Amin wept with tears of devotion over Sai ...

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