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 ...

This undated file photo shows Uganda's then President Idi Amin Dada. Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by armed groups of exiles in 1979, died in Saudi ...

It would make a terrific double bill with Barbet Schroeder's mesmerizing 1974 documentary, ''General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait,'' of which Mr. Macdonald has obviously made a close and ...

Amin was hailed a hero and the 250-pound leader was nicknamed Dada, or "Big Daddy." He even was chosen as the head of the Organization of African Unity in 1975 despite some members' objections.

GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA: SELF-PORTRAITCriterion Collection, $25.49AT ONE POINT, he was the world's deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psych ...

Made in 1974, when Amin was at the height of his power and notoriety, General Idi Amin Dada (newly reissued on video with several other early Schroeder works) is so reliant upon the participation ...

Somewhere in "The Producers," the crackpot Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind, melancholy over the way history has treated his leader, points out in petulant counterargument that der Fuehrer "could ...

As Idi Amin Dada, the charismatic, man-child-monster, Whitaker devours every scene he is in. He is the warlord as prankster; a man with an appetite, equally, for both laughter and destruction.

And then, like a horrible Clarence from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada (Evan Parke) descends on Steve, kicking aside his objections and demanding that Steve write a ...

On the heels of President Charles Taylor's departure from Liberia has come the death of Idi Amin Dada in Saudi Arabia. While perhaps an event that many will celebrate in itself, Saturday's passing ...