Idi Amin- a moster as a clown

• 1924 (in some sources also 1925 or 1928) born in the north of Uganda under the name Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo
• visited a little school but never really learned how to write and read
• 1948 he joined the “King’s African Rifles” as a assistant cook and worked his way up to the most feared chaser of terrorists
• he was described as unintelligent but a great leader and sadist
• he hated the British but admired Hitler
• 1971 Amin initiated a putsch and brought down president Milton Obote to preemt a dismissal
• published a manifest: more political freedom, ending of arrests, more wealth so that the Ugandans took Amin for a good president
• many described him as a funny man and even a clown
• Amin started a war of economy and took the belongings of the Asian to gain wealth
• so in the course of his 8 years of rule several hundreds of thousands people died
• 1979 he was exiled by a Tanzanian army
• Exile in Saudi-Arabia because he was a believing muslim
• he was never accused
• 2003 Amin died because of liver and kidney failure

picture taken from: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/08/17/images/2003081703580101.jpg