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Instead of exiling them to fight you from abroad like they did to Amin and Obote, buy them off at home. Unlike Obote, Museveni has all the military power firmly in his hands. No consequential ...
From 1971 to 1979, President Idi Amin Dada devastated Uganda. The military dictator sank the economy and deported an entire ethnic class. He slaughtered up to half a million of his fellow citizens ...
Dictatorships are autocratic governments with little constraints, categorized as authoritarian, totalitarian, military, ...
War movies like Cross of Iron and Jarhead disappointed at the box office but became bona fide cult classics, with audiences embracing them over time.
In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and ...
Ruto's Kenya is quite redolent of Idi Amin's Uganda (1971-1979) where one voiced dissent on the pain of death, scholars and thinkers were muzzled into silence and fled abroad, and foreign-owned ...
The Moderates launched the tool with the intention that users could send AI messages from Kristersson to encourage others to join the party ahead of the 2026 election. But the service wasn’t given any ...
If this sincerely is a war against a dangerous and murderous tyrant, how come the United States never sought Idi Amin, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il? These despots also destroyed the lives of people in ...
In Uganda, many thrived in trade and professions but remained perpetual outsiders—a status violently reinforced by Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion of Asians.
After detailing Amin’s atrocities, Gall was rounded up with other journalists and marched to what he later learned was an execution cell – a hut spattered with blood from which he was lucky to ...
And the Indian community represented in Uganda the top 1%. And they were the shopkeepers, the bankers, the merchants, that ran Uganda, until many of them were expelled by Idi Amin.