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    Idi Amin Dada Oumee (/ˈiːdi ɑːˈmiːn, ˈɪdi -/ , UK also /- æˈmiːn/; 30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served...
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  • Fall of Idi Amin, also known as Amin: The Rise and Fall, is a 1981 biographical film directed by Sharad Patel and starring Joseph Olita as Idi Amin. Olita...
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  • second born, died in May 2012 at the age of 81. In 1972, Uganda dictator Idi Amin expelled all Asians from Uganda, regardless of citizenship. Mayur, with...
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    Entebbe raid (category Idi Amin)
    terrorists. Once in Uganda, the group enjoyed support from Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France Airbus A300 jet airliner with...
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  • In early August 1972, the President of Uganda Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country...
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  • The Last King of Scotland (film) (category Cultural depictions of Idi Amin)
    Foden's 1998 novel, its plot depicts the dictatorship of Ugandan President Idi Amin through the perspective of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor...
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  • Sarah Kyolaba (category Idi Amin)
    Tatu Namutebi Amin (1955 – 11 June 2015), also known by her stage name "Suicide Sarah", was a Ugandan dancer who was dictator Idi Amin's fifth and last-surviving...
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    Lake Edward (redirect from Lake Idi Amin)
    Edward VII. In 1973, Uganda and Zaire (DRC) renamed it Lake Idi Amin after Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. After his overthrow in 1979, it recovered its former name...
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    Idi Amin in 1971, settling in exile in Tanzania, but was re-elected in an election reported to be neither free nor fair in 1980, a year after Amin's 1979...
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  • General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (French: Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait) is a 1974 documentary film by French director Barbet Schroeder with...
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    Uganda existed from 1971 to 1979, when Uganda was ruled by Idi Amin's military dictatorship. Amin's rule formally came to an end with the Uganda-Tanzania War...
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  • group formed by exiled Ugandans opposed to the rule of military dictator Idi Amin. The UNLF had an accompanying military wing, the Uganda National Liberation...
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    country's conversion from a parliamentary system to a presidential system. Idi Amin's military coup in 1971 led to a brutal regime characterized by mass killings...
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    hop artist and a member of the Outlawz. The name is a play on the name Idi Amin, former dictator of Uganda. While in the third grade, Malcolm became friends...
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    Ugandan independence from the United Kingdom to the rise of the dictator Idi Amin. The Ugandan state was officially named the Sovereign State of Uganda between...
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  • to Entebbe, Uganda, where they received support from Ugandan president Idi Amin. Bloch, who had become ill during the flight, was taken to a hospital in...
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  • Bangladesh: A Complex Web, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-134-05715-3 Idi Amin & Indophobia: General Amin and the Indian Exodus from Uganda by Hasu H. Patel, Issue:...
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  • Isaac Maliyamungu (category Idi Amin)
    Lugonzo, was a Ugandan military officer who served as one of President Idi Amin's most important officials and supporters during the Ugandan military dictatorship...
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  • Muteesa Walugembe as the first President of Uganda and Kabaka of Buganda. Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote to became ruler of Uganda in 1971, a position he would...
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  • The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin is a British comedy album parodying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, released in 1975 on Transatlantic Records. It was performed...
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    of Ugandan President Idi Amin. The war was preceded by a deterioration of relations between Uganda and Tanzania following Amin's 1971 overthrow of President...
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  • 2014) was a Kenyan actor who was best known for portraying Idi Amin in Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) and Mississippi Masala (1991). Joseph Ogola Olita...
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  • third vice president of Uganda from 1977 to 1979 and was one of President Idi Amin's closest associates before the two fell out. In 1978, after Adrisi was...
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    doubted. Idi Amin also supplied arms and financed the Sudanese Kakwa people in the first civil war of Sudan. The Kakwa officials in Idi Amin regime were...
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    tortured, and was one of the first political prisoners to be executed by the Idi Amin regime. Basil Kiiza Bataringaya was born in 1927, in the village of Kantojo...
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    Ugandan officers increased from 18 to 55. Two northerners, Shaban Opolot and Idi Amin, assumed command positions in the Uganda Army and later received promotions...
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  • 1971 Ugandan coup d'état (category Idi Amin)
    president Milton Obote's government. The coup was staged by major general Idi Amin Dada, commander of the Uganda Army. The seizure of power occurred on January...
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    dealings between American corporations and the genocidal African regime of Idi Amin; and other columns advocating that the United States impose economic sanctions...
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  • generally accepted that he was murdered on the orders of then-President Idi Amin. Since 2015 Uganda has a public holiday on 16 February, to celebrate the...
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  • secretary-general of the Commonwealth Secretariat. He went into exile after Idi Amin came to power. Following the outbreak of the Uganda–Tanzania War, Ugandan...
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