The Monitor: The Independent Daily. IDI AMIN DADA 1925

Headlines

• Museveni, Amin: Men who hated each other
Idi Amin, who died last month is best remembered for expelling Asians in 1972, and presiding over a government that destroyed Uganda's economy. Current President Yoweri Museveni called the Asians back and has tried to rebuild the country....[more]

• Amin 'stole' NATO codes
The late Idi Amin stole the secret security codes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a close aide has said....[more]

• Let us mourn Amin's passing correctly
Choke if you will, but Idi Amin has in death, apparently, kicked Shakespeare in the mouth. The bard wrote that the evil that men do lives after them; the good is often buried with them....[more]

• No minute of silence for Amin
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Ssekandi, yesterday refused to grant a minute of silence in memory of Idi Amin. .... [more]

• Amin books sell big
Demand for books on Idi Amin is high. The former president died of multiple organ failure on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Booksellers at the on-going National Book Week Exhibition at the Constitutional Square in Kampala say literature on Amin is the most sought after....[more]

• The two countries reconciled within weeks.
Amin had understood correctly that although the departing colonial power was Portugal and the Caribbean Island nation of Cuba would soon involve itself more closely in the geo-politics of Africa,...[more]

• On the road to economic collapse
Mahmood Hudda, 5, was blown by the winds of tumult to the cold of Canada. Roni Madhvani, 8, to a 1970s England he could hardly comprehend....[more]

• Amin as the chancellor: A Makerere VC's story
I could say he couldn't probably even pronounce his name both in English and Kiswahili. But by the time he left, he was actually expressing himself quite fluently. And he wanted to learn French...[more]

• A foreign policy disaster
Idi Amin Dada came to power when he overthrew Apollo Milton Obote's government on January 25, 1971....[more]

• When dying was easier than living
Luwum was arrested in February 1977 together with two cabinet ministers, Charles Oboth Ofumbi and Lt. Col. Erinayo Oryema, for conspiracy in a coup plot....[more]

• Who were Amin's victims?
Benedict Kiwanuka; Democratic Party leader, first Prime minister of Uganda and Chief Justice at the time of his death...[more]

• A girl called Esther Chesire
On March 5, 1976, a student of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Paul Serwanga, was shot dead by an army captain who had developed an interest in his (Serwanga) girlfriend....[more]

• Big Daddy and his women
"The story of Amin and his women is one that turns bizarre, comic and brutal."...[more]

• The myths surrounding Idi Amin
The BBC in its Saturday broadcast announcing the death of former president Idi Amin Dada reported that he kept the heads of seven of his victims in a fridge in his kitchen...[more]

• Rejected then taken in by dad; a timeline
He was born on May 17, 1928 at about 4.00 a.m. in a police barracks at the present International Conference Centre in Kampala....[more]

• ‘The Hitler of Africa’
State of Blood is a book that is written by Henry Kyemba, a man who served as principle private secretary to Milton Obote and as a minister in Amin’s government....[more]

MORE

• Idi Amin is dead

• MPs want Amin buried in Arua

• 'Amin paid for his sins'

• Public reacts to Amin's death

• Amin for immediate burial

• End of bad chapter, say Uganda Indians

• Idi Amin died young - Nassur

• Amin: A sporting Legacy unequalled