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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings of as many as 100,000 people since his election in 1980 to succeed the even more bloodstained dictator Idi Amin Dada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Pendulum Swing | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Indeed, Uganda's bloody history of tribal vendettas did not seem likely to end soon. In Saudi Arabia, the exiled Idi Amin, who had ousted Obote in 1971 before being overthrown himself in 1979, applauded the coup but warned that "if the new leaders refuse my advice, we would work to topple them." Asked if he would return to Uganda, Amin merely answered, "Everybody wants to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Pendulum Swing | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...addition to challenging Abacha, whom Soyinka calls a “murderer with other nasty habits,” he fought to overthrow Idi Amin, Uganda’s cruel military dictator, and this past May he participated in a rally demanding the resignation of Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, whose re-election is said to have been tainted by vote fraud...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner On Survival | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

Uganda’s murderous Idi Amin found the idea of an African economy run by non-blacks so offensive that he simply had everyone of Asian descent deported during his reign in the ’70s—a move that was permissible under the international community’s watch (not that Idi Amin cared) in the still-gleeful days of independence. Tanzania, as a result, got even more Indian emigres, making them seem all the more ubiquitous in a place where homegrown industry is scarce and commerce, through the market or small café, is highly...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The New Empire | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...Last Farewell To Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Idi Amin, Dr. Atkins and Mr. Rogers, Carney, Cash, Kazan and Kate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Dec. 29, 2003 | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

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