IDI AMIN: The good, the bad & the ugly

[MisterT]

I actually had a measure of respect for the life and times of Idi Amin, cause I didn't know enough about him. I knew he deported nearly 100,000 Indian and Paki storekeepers, financiers and business owners from Uganda, which was a failure as the Ugandan populace who took over the stores, professions and businesses had no training in commerce, law, sales or marketing. His position was simply that Uganda was for Ugandans, just like Europe has always been for Europeans. Good concept but poorly executed. But what I never knew about Amin was that the guy enlisted to serve as a mercenary for the British army as they wiped out the Mau-Mau tribe and Somalis in the horn of Africa in the UK's fight for total colonization of Kenya and the horn in the late 1950s.

 

[MisterT]

Sad thing as the narration speaks of fishermen catching human bodies in their nets as dead bodies filled the Nile. Reminds me of a man I met at Lido Beach in Entebbe who spoke of the exact same thing happening a decade or two later when dead human bodies floated down the Nile from Rwanda's Hutu/Tutsi genocide and littered the beaches of Lake Victoria in Entebbe. When will Africa adopt terms like cooperation, negotiation, conciliation and detente. Still not as bad as the infancy of Europe. In those times Europeans killed one another with staggering, mind numbing frequency which lasted hundreds of years.

 

[ORIGINAL NATION]

Yea when they pulled out they left him in charge because he was the highest ranking black. No black could be a commissioned officer. He was the highest non commissioned officer. They killed blacks in other countries for trying to make parts of Africa for the Africans. Mandela went from prison almost straight to being president because they could use him to keep black South Africa from fighting to get their country back for themselves. He went to live with the Rothschild's for a year before they officially announced him being released. The Rothschild's taught him how to keep South Africa under white rule. It worked so well they started getting America prepared for Obama. Now a lot of blacks think we only want what they have already took.
Amin was the one that introduced Farrakhan to Muammar Gaddafi. But as far as him truly being about revolution, I have never seen it.