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Ethnic persecution refers to perceived persecution based on ethnicity. Its meaning is parallel to that of racism, (based on race). The Rwandan genocide remains an atrocity that the indigenous Hutu and Tutsi peoples still believe is unforgivable.
May 2, 2023 · Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish jurist, was born in 1900 on a small farm near the Polish town of Wolkowysk. From childhood, Lemkin was fascinated with the history of religious and ethnic persecution. He was also keenly aware of antisemitic pogroms.
As Amin's rule progressed into the late 1970s, there was increased unrest against his persecution of certain ethnic groups and political dissidents, along with Uganda's very poor international standing due to Amin's support for PFLP-EO and RZ hijackers in 1976, leading to Israel's Operation Entebbe.
Kelbinur Sidik (also spelled Qelbinur Sidik) is a human rights activist from China’s ethnic Uzbek minority. Having fled persecution by the Chinese communist government, she now speaks about the human rights abuses faced by ethnic and religious minorities in China.
- Seizure of Power
- Amin's Rule
- Amin's Erratic Behavior
- Deposition and Exile
- Family and Associates
- Death
- Legacy
- Portrayal in Media
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A number of factors - including the support Amin had built within the army by recruiting from the West Nile region, his involvement in operations to support the rebellion in southern Sudan, and the attempted assassination of Obote in 1969 - eventually led to a rift between Amin and Obote. In October 1970, Obote himself took control of the armed for...
Establishment of military rule
On February 2, 1971, one week after the coup, Amin declared himself president of Uganda, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Army Chief of staff (military) and Chief of Air Staff. He announced that certain provisions of the Constitution of Uganda had been suspended, and soon instituted an advisory Defence Council composed of military officers, with himself as the chairman. Military tribunals were placed above the system of civil law, soldiers were appointed to top government posts and par...
Persecution of ethnic and other groups
In retaliation to the attempted invasion by Ugandan exiles in 1972, Amin began purging the army of Obote supporters – predominantly those from the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups. In July 1971, Lango and Acholi soldiers were massacred in the Jinja and Mbarara Barracks and by early 1972 some 5,000 Acholi and Lango soldiers, and at least twice as many civilians had disappeared. The victims soon came to include members of other ethnic groups, as well as religious leaders, judges, lawyers, student...
Expulsion of Asians
In August 1972, Idi Amin declared what he called "Economic war," a set of policies which included the expropriation of properties owned by Asians and Europeans who he accused of living off Uganda's wealth while Africans suffered hardship. He saw the Asian community as a relic of colonialism. Uganda's Asians, who numbered 80,000, were mostly Indians born in the country, their ancestors having come from India to Uganda when the country was still a British colony. Many owned businesses, includin...
As the years went on, Amin became increasingly erratic and outspoken. He granted himself a number of grandiose titles, including "King of Scotland" and "Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and the Fishes of the Sea." Amin styled himself His Excellency, President of Uganda, President President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji, Doctor Idi Amin, VC, D...
By 1978, Amin was facing increasing dissent from within Uganda, his circle of close associates having shrunk significantly. After the killings of Archbishop Luwum and ministers Oryema and Oboth Ofumbi in 1977, several of Amin's ministers defected or fled to exile. Later that year, after Amin's Vice President, General Mustafa Adrisi was injured in a...
Wives
A polygamist, Idi Amin married at least five wives, three of whom he divorced. He married his first wife, Malyamu in 1966, and his second, Kay, in the same year. The following year he married Nora. In 1972 he announced his marriage to Nalongo Madina. On March 26, 1974 he announced on Radio Uganda that he had divorced Malyamu, Nora, and Kay. Malyamu was arrested in Tororo on the Kenyan border in April 1974, accused of smuggling a bolt of fabric into Kenya. She later moved to London. Kay died o...
Children
Sources differ widely on the number of children Amin fathered, most stating between 30 and 45. A report in The Monitor (Uganda) says he was survived by 45 children, while another by the BBC gives the figure at 54. Taban Amin, Idi Amin's eldest son, was until 2003 the leader of West Nile Bank Front (WBNF), a rebel group opposed to the Government of Yoweri Museveni. In 2005 he was offered amnesty by Museveni, and in 2006 he was appointed as a deputy director general of the Internal Security Org...
On July 20, 2003, one of Idi Amin's wives, Madina, reported that he was near death, and in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She pleaded with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni that he be allowed to return to die in Uganda. Museveni replied that Amin would have to "answer for his sins the moment he was brought back."...
Idi Amin's leadership of Uganda may have begun with popular support as Uganda struggled to realize peace and prosperity as an independent nation after decades of colonial rule. However, the result was far from what anyone hoped for. Most analysts point to Idi Amin's unsuitability to exercise the level of power he achieved. If he was supported, at l...
Film dramatizations
1. Victory at Entebbe(1976), a TV film about Operation Entebbe. Julius Harris played Amin. 2. Raid on Entebbe(1977), a film depicting the events of Operation Entebbe. Yaphet Kotto played Amin as a charismatic but short-tempered political and military leader. 3. In Mivtsa Yonatan (1977; also known as Operation Thunderbolt), an Israeli film about Operation Entebbe, Jamaican-born British actor Mark Heath played Amin, who in this film is first angered by the Palestinian terrorists whom he later c...
Documentaries
1. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait(1974), directed by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder. 2. Idi Amin: Monster in Disguise(1997), a television documentary directed by Greg Baker. 3. The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver?(2004), a television documentary written, produced and directed by Elizabeth C. Jones for Associated-Rediffusion and Channel 4. 4. The Man Who Stole Uganda(1971), World In Action. 5. Inside Idi Amin's Terror Machine(1979), World In Action.
Allen, John. Idi Amin: History's villains. San Diego, CA: Blackbirch Press, 2004. ISBN 9781567117592Avirgan, Tony, and Martha Honey. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin. Westport, CT: L. Hill, 1982. ISBN 9780882081373Chomsky, Marvin J. (director) Victory at Entebbe(TV film) Warner Bros, 1976 drama based on the Israeli hostage rescue missionFoden, Giles. The Last King of Scotland. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998. ISBN 9780375403606 An award winning novel and the basis of the film, The Last King of Scotland,directed by Kevin Macdonald, Bever...All links retrieved March 2, 2021. 1. Barron, Brian. The Idi Amin I knew BBC, August 16, 2003. 2. O'Kadameri, Billie. Separate fact from fiction in Amin stories The Monitor, September 1, 2003. 3. idiamindada.coma website devoted to Idi Amin's legacy created by his son Jaffar Amin.
May 5, 2016 · In Germany’s extermination program for black Africans, a template for the Holocaust. Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa – now Namibia ...
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