Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he had skedaddled out of the country to escape an onrushing invasion, Uganda's self-anointed Field Marshal and President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada continued to cast a bloodstained shadow on his tormented land last week. U.S. officials reported that Big Daddy was in Libya seeking arms from his fellow Muslims in Tripoli for a possible counterattack against the new Ugandan government and its Tanzanian allies. Though Amin's chances of succeeding in such an effort were practically nil, at least some members of his shattered army professed to be eagerly awaiting his return. Claimed...
...rate at which they have been expending ammunition up to now, Amin's remaining loyalists will run out of it very soon. Three weeks after Amin fled from Kampala, Uganda's capital, bands of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan continued to roam the countryside, looting and killing. A particularly outrageous atrocity occurred on the day after Easter. At Jinja, an industrial town 50 miles east of Kampala, pro-Amin troops seized a group of 130 Catholic parishioners arriving by bus with a black bishop from the town of Mbale. The parishioners were herded into a stockade...
Kisuule-Minge said that at the time he fled, the filing cabinets in the SRB were filled with the names of 50,000 "missing people," who in reality had been exterminated. The bureau, with its staff of more than 300, was run by Lieut. Colonel Farouk Minawa, one of Amin's most trusted Nubian aides. From the outside, the building looked innocuous. Inside it was literally a chamber of horrors...
...sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls to be thrown to the crocodiles. Whenever a white was killed- Kisuule-Minge recalls about 50 such cases-Amin had the ears delivered to him on a platter. Kisuule-Minge remembers five Germans-three men and two women-being brought to the center. They were tied up, beaten and garroted and their bodies thrown into the Karuma. Once an attractive American woman was picked up from her hotel, accused...
...Amin enjoyed Saturday-morning visits at the SRB, Often he ordered two or three couples under sentence of death to strip and make love before him. Says Kisuule-Minge: "Amin would lounge on the counter sipping Russian wine and roar with laughter as the couples had sex on the floor." But after a while he would tire of the show and leave. The couples, who were always promised freedom if they pleased the President, were then returned to their cells...