Advertisement

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

The Ruler Nicknamed ''The Butcher Of Uganda''

Idi Amin Dada who became known as the "Butcher of Uganda" for his brutal, despotic rule as the President of Uganda in the 1970s, was perhaps the most notorious of Africa's post-independence dictators. Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971, ruled over Uganda for eight years, and imprisoned or killed at least 100,000 of his opponents. He was ousted in 1979 by Ugandan nationalists, after which he went into exile.


As Uganda approached independence, Amin's close colleague Apollo Milton Obote, the leader of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), was made chief minister and then prime minister. Obote had Amin, one of only two high-ranking Africans in the KAR, appointed as first lieutenant of the Ugandan Army. Sent north to quell cattle stealing, Amin perpetrated such atrocities that the British government demanded he be prosecuted. Instead, Obote arranged for him to receive further military training in the U.K.

On his return to Uganda in 1964, Amin was promoted to major and given the task of dealing with an army in mutiny. His success led to a further promotion to colonel. In 1965, Obote and Amin were implicated in a deal to smuggle gold, coffee, and ivory out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 A parliamentary investigation demanded by President Edward Mutebi Mutesa II put Obote on the defensive. Obote promoted Amin to general and made him chief-of-staff, had five ministers arrested, suspended the 1962 constitution, and declared himself president. Mutesa was forced into exile in 1966 after government forces, under the command of Amin, stormed the royal palace.

Idi Amin began to strengthen his position within the Army using the funds obtained from smuggling and from supplying arms to rebels in southern Sudan. He also developed ties with British and Israeli agents in the country. President Obote first responded by putting Amin under house arrest. When this failed to work, Amin was sidelined to a non-executive position in the Army. On January 25, 1971, while Obote was attending a meeting in Singapore, Amin led a coup d'etat, taking control of the country and declaring himself president.

Popular history recalls Amin's declared title to be "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."

Amin was initially welcomed both within Uganda and by the international community. President Mutesa—fondly known as "King Freddie"—had died in exile in 1969, and one of Amin's earliest acts was to have the body returned to Uganda for a state burial. Political prisoners (many of whom were Amin followers) were freed and the Ugandan Secret Police was disbanded. At the same time, however, Amin formed "killer squads" to hunt down Obote's supporters.

Obote took refuge in Tanzania, from where, in 1972, he attempted unsuccessfully to regain the country through a military coup. Obote supporters within the Ugandan Army, predominantly from the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups, were also involved in the coup. Amin responded by bombing Tanzanian towns and purging the Army of Acholi and Lango officers. The ethnic violence grew to include the whole of the Army, and then Ugandan civilians, as Amin became increasingly paranoid. The Nile Mansions Hotel in Kampala became infamous as Amin's interrogation and torture center, and Amin is said to have moved residences regularly to avoid assassination attempts.

His killer squads, under the official titles of "State Research Bureau" and "Public Safety Unit," were responsible for tens of thousands of abductions and murders. Amin personally ordered the execution of the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, the chancellor of Makerere College, the governor of the Bank of Uganda, and several of his own parliamentary ministers.

In 1972, Amin declared "economic war" on Uganda's Asian population, a group that dominated Uganda's trade and manufacturing sectors as well as a significant portion of the civil service. Seventy thousand Asian holders of British passports were given three months to leave the country, and the abandoned businesses were handed over to Amin's supporters. 

Amin severed diplomatic ties with Britain and "nationalized" 85 British-owned businesses. He also expelled Israeli military advisors, turning instead to Colonel Muammar Muhammad al-Gadhafi of Libya and the Soviet Union for support.

from facts daily on facebook

29 comments:

  1. A brutal, autocratic and demonic! He was evil. May his soul & souls of other wicked ''leaders'' rest in pieces in HELL!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Popular history recalls Amin's declared title to be "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."

    Say what? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

    Thanks you Stella, i enjoyed reading this

    ReplyDelete
  3. Popular history recalls Amin's declared title to be "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."

    Say what? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

    Thanks you Stella, i enjoyed reading this

    ReplyDelete
  4. What he did to the people of Uganda will never be forgotten

    ReplyDelete
  5. Wow Idi Amin Dada must be a very heartless being
    Brutal of Uganda what a tittle say what..

    Hello iya Boys

    ReplyDelete
  6. I watched his documentary while growing up and I was scared. It was alleged he ate human flesh

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I did too! I had nightmares for days! There was also one documentary on the Red Cross that tortured my dreams.

      Delete
  7. He eat people
    He had human flesh in his fridge
    He drank blood
    Monster….😎

    ReplyDelete
  8. The white Man told you that Idi Amin was an evil man. No, he wasn’t. He literally stopped Asians from coming into Uganda to subjugate the Ugandans by treating them like second-class citizens in their own country. Idi Amin was a hero in his country. He was not perfect, but he made sure that he had his own African pride. it’s you that read the history, who fails at research, relies on history as it’s told by the British and American perspective: a shame.

    Africans don’t even wanna learn about other Africans without going to the masters to give them the information. Talk to the Ugandans first OK go on YouTube. Do the research before you come off here and call Amin all kinds of names. Nobody said he was perfect, but making him all that stuff is just international and outside source that believes everything evil about him. he wasn’t a perfect person, but he definitely stopped the racism, the mistreatment of Africans by Indians and Asian invaders OK this people did not do anything good for the Africans and you can. when you’re writing your history, please make sure you’re telling from the perspective of Ugandans, not the perspective of the white men.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. True, I once had a colleague from Uganda who expressed the same sentiment. Let's refrain from relying solely on oyinbo’s accounts of our history. Thanks

      Delete
    2. Wow. Thanks for this.This was very insightful. It corrected all the misconceptions I had. We really need to unlearn/relearn some of the African history fed to us by the western world.

      Delete
    3. Are you Gen Z or something? Uganda that was in turmoil because of this man. Or are you justifying the people and villages he killed?. Una too dey quick forget. That’s why you people Voted BuBu into power

      Delete
    4. Just like I hear people praising IBB today because he built third mainland bridge. Hmmmmm. We will never learn

      Delete
    5. 14:18 a BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT.πŸ‘ŒπŸΎπŸ‘πŸΎ

      I also watched the movie as a child 'Idi Amin of Uganda' but as I grew older I found out it was propaganda by the West against him.

      SDK your last paragraph should have given you a hint of the people behind that propaganda against Idi Amin

      "In 1972, Amin declared "economic war" on Uganda's Asian population, a group that dominated Uganda's trade and manufacturing sectors as well as a significant portion of the civil service. Seventy thousand Asian holders of British passports were given three months to leave the country, and the abandoned businesses were handed over to Amin's supporters.

      Amin severed diplomatic ties with Britain and "nationalized" 85 British-owned businesses. He also expelled Israeli military advisors, turning instead to Colonel Muammar Muhammad al-Gadhafi of Libya and the Soviet Union for support."

      Delete
  9. 😱what!! My first time really reading about him. What an evil and heart harden man.

    ReplyDelete
  10. He dealt with Ugandans, I watched the movie Idi Amin of Uganda
    The Most Complex B

    ReplyDelete
  11. I watched his movie then, meenh! ,It was scary. .
    He must be a very wicked man

    ReplyDelete
  12. Last king of scotland, he was part of the people that joined forces with terrorist to kill Netanyahu brother via hijacking of a plane with alot of Jews travelling to france

    ReplyDelete
  13. Idi Amin, a brutal and notorious African Dictator that ever lived.
    With all the evil that he did, he died old at age 78.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Thank you Stella I enjoyed reading this.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Hmmm...this man was really a terror.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Don't swallow Western propagabda hook, line and sinker.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Last king of Scotland indeed. You slowpokes refuse to unlearn European funded perspectives on your own ppl. When the oppressor tells your story, they continue to amplify and feed you lies!

    Did you know that Uganda is a place where Israel would’ve been situated and do you realize how many Africans would have been murdered in the genocide as it is happening to the Palestinians today?
    Sit down there and dumb yourselves down. Any African that is illiterate and ignorant will enjoy neocolonialism from Indians, Asians and White ppl!! You all better wake up instead of having them frame us as the “face of global poverty” while raping us, stealing Coltan yes, you pay $1600 for an iPhone made in the West …a phone that works because it is made from Coltan…a mineral only found in Africa!!! Education is key!! Wake up!!

    ReplyDelete
  18. HE HAS REINCARNATED IN NIGERIA IN THE PERSON OF NYESOM WIKE

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. πŸ˜³πŸ˜³πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ this is not nice nau πŸ˜…

      Delete

Disclaimer: Comments And Opinions On Any Part Of This Website Are Opinions Of The Blog Commenters Or Anonymous Persons And They Do Not Represent The Opinion Of StellaDimokoKorkus.com

Pictures and culled stories posted on this site are given credit and if a story is yours but credited to the wrong source,Please contact Stelladimokokorkus.com and corrections will be made..

If you have a complaint or a story,Please Contact StellaDimokoKorkus.com Via

Sdimokokorkus@gmail.com
Mobile Phone +4915210724141