Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada Oumee (c. 1925 Koboko, Uganda, – August 16 2003, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality.

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Amin's tenure witnessed much sectarian violence, including the persecution of the Acholi, Lango, and other tribes in Uganda. Reports of the torture and murder of 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans during Amin's presidency have been widespread since the 1970s.

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1925: 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

Koboko: Koboko is a town in the northwestern Ugandan district of Arua, which is close to the borders of both Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is in the western part of the district and west of Arua town. From Koboko, one can proceed along the road from Arua town to Oraba on the Ugandan borde...

Uganda: The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, ...

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