Word: idi
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...IDI AMIN Uganda The man who ruled for eight murderous years now luxuriates in Saudi Arabia's Jedda, where he enjoys swimming, boxing and practicing the accordion...
...overpowering impotence that prevents it from taking a meaningful role in many humanitarian efforts. The U.N. has rarely committed itself to large efforts and has failed to stop major human rights atrocities in the five decades following World War II—including the killing fields of Cambodia and Idi Amin’s terror in Uganda to name only a few. Vague Security Council mandates cause U.N. action to be confined to arbitrary rules and confounded goals. In its 1993 intervention in Somalia, for instance, the U.N. dedicated itself to feeding a nation under the grasp of warlords...
Many such conflicts that the U.N. ignored or botched were settled by internal or multilateral action, largely without U.N. assistance. The Khmer Rouge was destroyed by a Vietnamese invasion; the U.N. dared to step in only after 28 years of oppression. Idi Amin’s rule, during which as many as 300,000 people died, ended when the Tanzanian military invaded on humanitarian and political motives. In the former Yugoslavia, the U.S.-sponsored Dayton Accords—unaffiliated with the U.N.—ended the conflict. The world has a lot more reason to thank the United States...
...middle of all of this. However, I am driven to defend basic principles of humanitarian assistance and to be guided by values that I have carried in my heart since I began my career in Uganda over 20 years ago, taking an active role in helping to heal what Idi Amin had destroyed...
...your neighbor is a uniquely Deutsche phenomenon, then maybe you’d like to be introduced to all the conquered European peoples who happily set about shipping their Jews off to the Nazi charnel houses. Or to Stalin’s Russians, Pol Pot’s Cambodians, Idi Amin’s Ugandans, and so on, ad infinitum...