Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tanzania's drive against "that fool"nears Idi Amin 's capital
...scene at Uganda's Entebbe airport told it all. Abandoning their efforts to save the embattled regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada, Soviet and Iraqi advisers lined up to board Russian transports that had been hurriedly dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week...
Finally, in early February, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, fed up with repeated territorial squabbles with Amin, announced that he had ordered his forces "to cross the border and fight inside Uganda if Amin tries to invade Tanzania again." Says a Ugandan exile leader: "That was taken by us to be the signal that the onslaught...
This time, no one seems to want to lend even rhetorical assistance to Amin. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of African Unity has condemned the invasion, despite his appeals. Amin may have managed to buy a few weapons from Iraq, but his traditional arms suppliers, Libya and the Soviet Union, apparently have cut off his credit. At least a third of Amin's 21,000-man army is now composed of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan, a group he trusts more than his own countrymen, and morale is at an all time...
TIME Reporter Tony Avirgan interviewed one Ugandan guerrilla, a tall, sturdily built man who calls himself Faki Kuli, in Tanzania. Kuli, 25, recalls that his father, a sergeant-major in the Ugandan army, his mother and two brothers were killed by Amin's soldiers during a barracks purge in 1974. Kuli escaped to Kenya and joined a dissident group. Eventually he re-entered Uganda and began to take part in sabotage activities; he helped blow up the fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within...