"We regret that Idi Amin is dying without meeting justice for his crimes. Amin was one of the bloodiest tyrants in a bloody century. It's increasingly possible to prosecute dictators outside their ...
KAMPALA, UGANDA - For many Ugandans, the death of former dictator Idi Amin on Saturday severed the last link to an era best forgotten: eight years of brutal rule defined by the deaths of up to 300,000 ...
(New York, August 18, 2003) – Idi Amin, who died Saturday, should have faced justice for his crimes, Human Rights Watch said. "It´s too bad that death caught up with Idi Amin before justice did," said ...
Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin remains in a critical condition, three days after he was admitted to a hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "He is still alive. But he remains in ...
Like many African leaders including Mr. Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Idi Amin never knew the date of his birth. According to his army documents, he was born around 1925 in a remote northwestern ...
KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug. 19 (JTA) — African strongman Idi Amin, who died last week, was embraced and then reviled by Israel during his military career and his murderous eight-year reign at Uganda’s helm.
The son of former Ugandan leader Idi Amin has written to The Guardian listing what he says are inaccuracies in the British newspaper's 2003 obituary of the late dictator. Parts of the letter were ...
LONDON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- One of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's wives told a newspaper Monday her husband was actually jolly and kind. In a London interview with the Mirror, Sarah Amin, Idi's ...
Like many African leaders including Mr. Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Idi Amin never knew the date of his birth. According to his army documents he was born around 1925 in a remote northwestern ...
Idi Amin Dada (30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and ...