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NARRATOR: Evil. Powerful.

Uncompromising.

Ruthless. Behind closed
doors a private hell.

- Tyrants often deviate in
their sexual behaviour.

- He fantasised about older women.

- He puts make up on.

- He had thousands of concubines.

They were this glamourous,
gun toting, sex objects.

- Fire on designated targets.

NARRATOR: The psychological insights
of the degenerate and deviant.

- He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.

- It is typical of somebody who
is sexually repressed.

- Power can change somebody.

- Uganda is very peaceful and Uganda
does not violate

any human rights.

- Amin was brutal in his
murders of thousands of people.

- The British are my best friends
I have.

- He was this political clown.

NARRATOR: Idi Amin, no fiction
writer could imagine this tyrant.

- Calling himself the King
of Scotland,

the Black Hitler.

NARRATOR: Nor imagine the
monster he became.

He used terror to rule Uganda.

Combining sex and violence in
a sadistic regime

involving multiple wives and lovers.

- Chopping off heads,

putting body parts in fridges,

even rumours of cannibalism.

- I can have sex with you, kill you,

injure you, have you as a partner.

These are all merged.

- She disappeared and her

dead body turned up in
the trunk of a car

chopped into pieces.

NARRATOR: He bestowed himself the
title President of Uganda for

life, claiming he was a
saviour to his people.

- Some people have requested me
to be the Life President.

NARRATOR: But history remembers him
by a very different name.

Early twentieth century a nascent,
largely agrarian nation,

stunted and squeezed by
imperial greed.

Feeding and enriching a
distant empire.

- So to understand Idi Amin

you need to really go back and look
at the history of the country

into which he was born, which
pre-war wasn't a country.

It was part of the British Empire.

So while the borders of the
country were prescribed by the

empire, there were autonomous
tribes within that country.

And it wasn't really until

after the war that Uganda
became its own country.

So it was into this environment,
this post-colonial

environment that Idi Amin
started his career.

NARRATOR: It was into this world of
hierarchies, of race and rank

that Idi Amin Dada was born sometime

around 1925.

Details of Amin's early life are
sketchy due to his later

fabrications but what is known is
that his mother was a tribal

healer, conjuring witch
doctor medicine.

His father, a one-time child
soldier recruited by the British

army, had simply vanished.

- Amin's relationship with authority

was problematic, starting with

his relationship with his Dad
who abandoned him.

- So here we have Idi Amin

who comes from an African
tribal background.

And this was a time when most of
Africa were colonies but

people out in the rural areas really
led very simple tribal lives.

Now Amin was very poorly educated.
He was barely literate.

And I think a number of people
have held doubts about his

actual IQ.

NARRATOR: Idi Amin was a fine
physical specimen, standing

well over six feet but lacked
academic ability.

But the British didn't need
scholars. They needed soldiers.

Thanks to his father's military
service he was able to join

the King's African Rifles as a cook.

But he didn't stay in the
kitchen for long.

- He showed himself to be

a good soldier, a good boxer, he was
an athlete, he was a large

man, about six foot
four, very heavy.

And he had all the marks of

a reasonable sergeant,
that kind of level.

He wasn't seen to be
officer material.

But he proved to be
extremely ambitious.

NARRATOR: Amin was a
fighter, not a baker.

The man who would one day be
accused of cannibalism

developed a thirst for blood early.

During the infamous Mau Mau uprising
in Kenya, which had started

in 1952, Amin led brutal
raids in the name of

British Colonialism, earning a
reputation for savagery.

- Idi Amin was commended by his
officers as being loyal

and brutal and he played
a big part in

the defeat of the Mau Maus in Kenya,
uh, as part of the British army.

He actively took part in the torture
of prisoners and seemed to

revel in it.

Genital mutilations,
psychological pain,

forced starvation.

It seemed that his career, uh, was
built on pain and discomfort

and fear.

NARRATOR: Pain, discomfort and
fear later became the calling

cards for Amin's numerous wives
and lovers but for now

the British Uniform gave him
training and standing.

But though he revelled in the
uniform he resented taking

orders from the British.

It was a master, servant
relationship that Idi Amin

mocked and despised
throughout his life.

- If you look at his relationship
with England the constant

hyping of himself, I think,
stems back to the sense of

inferiority he had when serving
under the British in the army.

That and an awareness that not
only were you black, not only

were you Ugandan but you were
really, even amongst all of that,

somebody from a small tribe and not
somebody of any particular ability.

So I think that just went on
with him and this crude

determination to overcompensate.

- Many people who emerge out of the
colonial sphere, who become,

um, leaders in independent African

nations have a strange relationship
with the home country because they

would have been raised, they'd have
gone to school, uh, in classrooms

where they would've learned about
their home country,

their capital, which was England
and the capital is London.

And the schools that they would of
learned about were Eton.

So their whole moral and
imaginative universe is decentred

from the place in which they grew up
and this place somewhere else.

NARRATOR: Amin's hybrid background
of African tribal culture

mixed with English colonial
education laid the foundations

for a leader who could charm with
one hand,

maim and kill with the other.

- He drank scotch for example.

But also his whole life was about
rejecting certain things as

well, a, a system that made him
second class he rejected.

NARRATOR: As a young soldier Amin
kept his sex life under wraps.

In this period of his life he was
much more interested in power

than in passion.

- I think that for Amin, sex was
simply almost a functional thing.

You just needed a woman at a
particular time, you took her

and then you moved on.

I think there was absolute no
subtlety about it at all and

certainly nothing like a
romantic affection.

NARRATOR: For someone who was
unromantic, however, he did

like the attention of a wedding.

In 1966 Amin,

by this time Commander
of the Ugandan Army,

married not once but three times
within a matter of months.

Three wives: Mal Yamu, Kay,
and Nora,

became part of his devoted
entourage,

despite them initially
not knowing about one another.

Soon after they married, Idi Amin's
first wife, Mal Yamu, found

him in bed with his soon-to-be
second wife, Kay.

To add insult to injury Mal Yamu
only learnt he had married

her after hearing about it
on State Television.

- Privately he was dominating and
controlling all of his wives

and lovers. They weren't his
partners. They were, uh, prisoners.

They were emotionally trapped

under his manipulation

and they suffered harm at his hand.

It's likely that he also saw

that interest in having multiple
families as,

uh, sort of making up
for the fact that he himself

came from a broken family and was
abandoned by his own father.

NARRATOR: It was yet another sign
that when it suited him Amin

was entirely happy to cast off
the constraints of British

traditionalism.

Polygamy, it would seem, was the
preference for this dictator

in waiting.

1970. Uganda's Prime Minister,

Milton Obote, had a problem.

His handpicked and highly ambitious
army commander, Idi Amin, was

gaining popularity, too much of it.

- Amin was obsessed with power.

He was grandiose in
everything that he did.

NARRATOR: Knowing that Obote was
planning to move against him

in January 1971, while Obote was
away at a Commonwealth Summit

in Singapore, Amin struck.

- Uganda armed forces have

taken over power from Obote and

handed to our fellow soldier

Major General Idi Amin Dada.

- In 1971 Idi Amin staged a military
coup,

with western support,

to set up a popularist government.

However the West badly misread him.

This man was a,
a showman but behind it,

it showed a real ruthless leader.

NARRATOR: Not for the first time the
British had badly miscalculated.

- The entire people of Uganda
consider me I am the

conqueror of the British Empire.

It is not my intention to be a
President but, uh, it is the

people who appointed me to be the
President of the Republic of Uganda.

They are same people have requested
me

to be the Life President of Uganda

for what I have done for the
country.

NARRATOR: Military coup and contempt
for the British not withstanding,

the self-appointed
President was popular.

His poolside press conferences
delighted the foreign press and

the young women adorning his antics
helped create a playboy image.

The West was entertained by this
seemingly well-meaning clown

from the Colonies.

- I do both politics and sports.

NARRATOR: Amin understood something
few strongmen did: he didn't

restrict foreign press,
he courted them.

- Amin was...

very astute at using
publicity

in different ways to

try to project his image of a leader

in Africa who was anti-colonial,

anti-British in particular and, of
course, this was seen to be

as hilarious and ridiculous

by the British but it captured the
attention of,

uh, many of his
loyal followers in Uganda

and these kinds of gimmicks
helped him

to have a popular support base.

- President Amin leaves his imprint
on everything and on such an

occasion it may seem that everything
is spectacle, even of circus,

makes the serious politics almost
incidental but of course it's

not so.

NARRATOR: A game of basketball
against nervous looking

foreign diplomats was a photo
opportunity not to be missed.

- The Chinese deciding they would
play, the Russians decided

they wouldn't.

And though he missed a few President
Amin made no mistake with this one.

- There was a huge need for
acknowledgement and

respect and you can see this in all
the titles he gave himself,

the medals he wore

and this general attitude
to 'I am the king'.

In many ways you can say this
goes back to an African tribal

view centuries ago that had long
since gone but he was happy

to stick with it.

NARRATOR: But while the world
applauded, behind closed

doors military control had
quickly turned into domestic

oppression of ethnic minorities
and sexual coercion.

To satisfy his libido he began
surrounding himself with

beauty queens, dancers and teenage
girls, young, vulnerable

women who had little
control over their fate.

- He used sexual relations

as a means of control.

He used rape as a means of
control.

He used women

as a symbol of his own power.

Having sex with women became,
for him, something that

demonstrated his power.

- Power over people's lives.
Power to kill them.

Power to maim them. Power to
torture them. Power to rape them.

Power to have sex with them.

I think these are very much
connected and it gave the

same kind of joy to Idi Amin.

NARRATOR: Public Charm.
Private domination.

As he played to the cameras little
did the world suspect what

misery Dada the Dictator was
about to unleash on Uganda.

- I think I will now issue
my statement.

NARRATOR: August 1972, Idi Amin
makes a declaration that will

send shockwaves through
Uganda, and England.

- The decision of my government to
ask the British Government to

take over responsibility

for the
British citizens of Asian origin

living in Uganda

who are sabotaging
the economy of this country.

Uganda will be independent after
this, my decision, after I

want to see that the whole Kampala
Street is not full of Indians.

- One of the first things he did

as part of his Uganda for the
Ugandans rhetoric was to

expel all of the Asians
from the country.

Now these Asians were British
subjects and this became a

huge diplomatic crisis for Britain
as he basically said, they're

your problem now, you need to take
them and you need to deal with them.

NARRATOR: Amin gave them ninety days
to leave or face imprisonment

or worse.

- Do you want to leave?

- Yeah, we have to leave.
We don't want to leave it.

- Do you think you're going to be
alright and safe at the end

of ninety days in another country?

- You know, there's a
problem. It's a problem.

- His expelling of around 50,000
South Asians from Uganda was

a reflection of the position
that South Asians had

taken in Ugandan colony, which is
that they dominated the kind

of, um, urban professional
sphere and that

was a position that had been
supported by the British state.

So that was not something that
happened kind of

coincidentally or accidentally.

NARRATOR: Most of Uganda's Asian
population, around 50,000

people, were third-generation
citizens.

Many had been born in the country,
they ran hospitals, schools,

import-export businesses and banks.

But now, at a moment's notice, they
were being ordered to leave

their homes and their livelihoods.

- You said you wanted to teach
Britain a lesson President.

Why is that?

- And that is now a lesson I am
now teaching the British.

I am teaching now the lesson because
I am correcting them from the

mistake they had made.

If they had think before earlier
that there are Africans here

who can even work and are building
the railway with instruction

given to them by the British this
problem would not happen.

- I will expel them.
I will cut our ties with Britain.

I will make us proud to be
Ugandans and all of that.

But what do you see in Africa
time and time again?

African nationalism takes over and
it descends into tribalism

and that really was the basis for
the way Amin operated.

- London for Londoners.
Scotland for the Scottish.

It is only transferring the economy

to hands of Ugandans.

NARRATOR: For anyone who dared to
defy Amin and stay in the

country the threat was clear.

- What will happen to these people
if they don't go by the time?

- I think they will be sitting like
they are sitting on the fire.

I will tell you this. You just
wait after three months.

- What will you do to them?

- Ok, you will see.

- Mother's passport, father's
passport and your British

nationality document.

NARRATOR: They left with the
clothes on their backs.

Factories were handed to military
cronies, shops looted,

banks emptied.

And with the departure of the
Asian community Uganda's

once-healthy economy and social
infrastructure began to collapse.

- So effectively they exiled all
their professionals, a lot of

doctors, a lot of businessmen.

Um, that was devastating to the
state and to the population.

NARRATOR: The international
community condemned what

became known as 'Departheid'.

Amin replied
in typically bizarre fashion.

- I have written a letter

to her Majesty the Queen.

I thank her Majesty the Queen

very much for the letter she has,

uh, delivered, uh, written to me.

NARRATOR: Even though he was
becoming emboldened by his

absolute power and had declared his
nation independent, expelling

several of its loyal citizens, Amin
began to fantasise about a

larger royal role.

Partly, it seems, out of his
personal admiration for

Queen Elizabeth II.

- He wrote letters to
Queen Elizabeth of England not just

once, but dozens of times declaring
his undying love, offering to

marry her and even that her next
baby by him, presumably,

could be delivered by his
doctors in Uganda.

All really puzzling.
Was he mocking her?

Was he that delusional that he
thought this could be a reality?

His grasp on reality was
certainly starting to slip.

NARRATOR: Faced by Amin's
increasingly unpredictable

rhetoric and behaviour The British
High Commissioner to Uganda

didn't know where to look.

- Had you asked the British
to take them away then?

- The British High Commissioner is
here, it is his responsibility.

I told him.

- The position of my government on
that question, on the rate of

admission, uh, has clearly got to be
reserved and I have now got to,

uh, report what you have decided,
uh, and seek further instruction.

NARRATOR: As he laughed at the
discomfort of the

British High Commissioner, there
was no telling what this

increasingly erratic
dictator's next move would be.

By the mid-1970s no one was safe
from Idi Amin's chaos.

Uganda's President For Life
announced on national radio

that he had divorced three
of his five wives.

Not for infidelity nor
irreconcilable differences.

The wives had simply held a party
without asking for permission

from Dada.

He didn't grieve their departure.

He had plenty more
wives to indulge him.

- He had five official wives and
ten or more unofficial wives.

He also had between forty and
sixty children, uh, by all of

these wives.

So he had amassed an
extreme progeny, uh, beneath him.

As a result of these numerous
sexual escapades that, that he had.

His numerous children

could be reflective of
Idi Amin's desire to exercise his

power, to spread his seed
as far as it can go.

And, uh, also reflective of his
sexual dominance, um, his

masculinity, his virility, his
ability to procreate, all

entwined with creating sort of his
own little personal army of

people that ultimately he
could control as well.

NARRATOR: By 1973 the tone of
the regime had changed.

Amin's confidence hardened
into suspicion.

He began replacing ministers
regularly, continuing his

prolific and brutal purge of his
predecessor's allies and his

bodyguards were rotated weekly.

Even senior military officers
weren't safe, as Amin sought

to shore up his power base,
exiling and executing thousands.

- Fire!

- As bombastic as he was

in public or in front of the
cameras, behind the scenes he

was beginning to unravel.

He was paranoid and stories of his
brutality were starting to

come out as well.

Advisors would go into meetings
and never come out again.

There were rumours of him feeding
body parts to crocodiles, uh,

and even having parts of his
victim's body stored in freezers.

This was a man who was really
starting to fall apart.

- If it has been something bad,
critical of me my people will

not be happy as now.

You understand?
You understand what I say?

NARRATOR: His need to control
wasn't rooted in confidence.

It stemmed from paranoia and
insecurity at his humble

origins and previous
servitude to the British.

- Idi Amin's insecurity

manifested itself in different ways.

One of those ways was to have

those who were supposed to be
in power humiliated.

In one incident he had four

white men carry him in as if

he was
on a throne and they were slaves.

- The symbolism is very
clear. 'I'm in charge.

I'm a black man who's in charge.

The previous colonial situation in
which I was raised has been

reversed, upended.

I am a powerful black man and
these white men now have to

carry me in on palanquin.'

That's a very arresting

image, uh, and probably one that
those diplomats engaged in

with a certain amount of
trepidation.

- Other ways in which
he humiliated people

was even more bizarre, such as

keeping parts of their bodies in
his fridge,

such as not only torturing them but
dismembering them.

I think these are

all manifestations of his need to
show control and power over

other people.

NARRATOR: Idi Amin surrounded
himself with 'yes' men and

'yes' women, or at least women who
wouldn't dare say 'no' for

fear of the consequences.

And all of these people he treated
as his private chattels to

either promote or
dispose of on a whim.

Some months after Idi Amin

announced his divorce from
second wife, Kay Adroa, her

dismembered body was found in
the trunk of a car.

The official line was that she had
died during the abortion of a

child who was not Idi's.

The doctor who performed the
abortion allegedly took his

own life.

- Her dead body

turned up in the trunk of a car,
chopped into pieces.

But it gets worse because after
her body was found Amin

ordered his Chief Medical Officer to

stitch her body back together and
then placed on the steps of

the hospital

as a symbol of this, don't cross me
or this might happen to you.

A visible indicator of his violence,
of his power, of his sadistic

and bizarre tendencies.

NARRATOR: Without even breaking a
sweat Idi Amin Dada moved on

to his next sexual trophy.

Nineteen year old Go-Go Dancer Sarah
Kyolaba became wife number four.

With Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat, Amin's new best

friend, as Best Man.

Idi had abducted Sarah from another
man,

who then mysteriously
disappeared.

Ominously Idi's teen bride came to
be known as 'Suicide Sarah'.

- Idi Amin's, um, viciousness was
different than that of other,

other dictators at the time
because it was personal.

And whether it's the use of
cannibalism among the Kakua

tribes in the north

feeding people to crocodiles,
although he's not the only

dictator to be alleged to have
fed people to crocodiles.

And people understood, understood
it in that way, the keeping

of body parts to be kind of
fetishization.

There's enough evidence to suggest
that these things did happen.

NARRATOR: No one dared to challenge
Amin's increasingly violent rule.

His early clowning for the cameras
was replaced by a more sombre and

menacing demeanour, as he even
turned his prisoners on each

other for sport.

- His centre of operations was his
so-called command post.

Here inside heavily barred cells
prisoners were forced to

smash each other's heads with coal
hammers, their cell blocks

just four square concrete
block houses.

No beds or chairs.

Absurd signs warn those who worked
here to keep secrets guarded.

The bodies of tortured victims still
lie nearby at Amin's dreaded

state research centre.

- He was nicknamed
The Butcher Of Uganda. He relished

in the delight of not just hurting
people but coming up with

creative ways to mutilate bodies.

This is a very disturbed person.

NARRATOR: Bodies just appeared from
nowhere in Lake Victoria.

According to engineers at hydro
plants up to forty corpses a

day were pulled from the water.

- The murder rate was extortionate.
It was just so high.

The best estimates were around
300,000 people murdered and

their bodies were just dumped.

They were thrown into the rivers,

thrown into Lake Victoria, where
apparently some of them even

clogged up turbines.

The rivers literally ran
red with blood

and this wasn't in times of war.
This was in peacetime.

NARRATOR: That same year his former
chief of staff, whom he suspected

of plotting to replace him,

was beaten to death with rifle
butts.

Amin had his head delivered to his
residence

and kept it in a freezer.

He once brought it to a dinner
party. This was ritualized terror.

- To almost anyone Amin's
behaviour

was so extreme as to be

almost impossible to comprehend.

Chopping off heads, putting body
parts in fridges, even

rumours of cannibalism.

In some way this was an atavistic
form of tribalism.

But I think it all goes back to
the fact that he was a

terribly limited man with a
terribly limited intellect

and his violence and his rage
simply had no stabilisers.

NARRATOR: But for Idi Amin the start
of his inevitable downfall

came from an unexpected source,
a country which had once

supported him but had now
seen his true colours.

- In 1976 an Air France flight from
Tel Aviv to Paris was stormed

by four hijackers.

At first it looked like a
classic terrorist operation.

But this was very different.

NARRATOR: June 27, 1976. An
Air France flight from Tel Aviv to

Paris is hijacked by four militants,
two Palestinian, two German.

They divert the plane, with its
248 passengers and crew, to

Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

- We are going to execute

all the passengers.

NARRATOR: Amin steps in, welcomes
the hijackers and offers

himself as a negotiator.

- Amin was looking for a way to
assert himself globally.

He thought he wasn't an important
global figure and, and

Entebbe, um, in, in taking the
side of the Palestinian

nationalists and Palestinian
terrorists and that, allowed

him to, or he believed, allowed him
a certain amount of leverage

over um, western government.

NARRATOR: Over the next six days
Amin demonstrates his

complete lack of understanding of
international diplomacy by

spewing out a torrent of
antisemitic bile via the media.

- In Britain the whole economy it
has been controlled by

Britain, except there are very many
jews who are also controlling

your economy in Britain.

I think you know this.

And as well as in the United State
of America, the whole economy

there is controlled by Jews.

NARRATOR: By siding with the hostage
taking terrorists Idi Amin

had now made an enemy of the West.

Seven days into the siege, in a
remarkable covert mission

code-named Operation Thunderbolt,
special commandos flew from

Israel and swooped on Entebbe
under cloak of darkness.

The terrorists were killed, the
hostages rescued from right

under Amin's nose.

- The Entebbe Affair ends with a
daring raid, the Israelis,

um, launch a raid into Uganda,
seemingly impossibly.

I don't think anyone would have, uh,
imagined this was possible.

- And when the Israeli hostages were
liberated by their own forces

it was a bit of an
embarrassment for him.

But his relationship with the
west was now well and truly

fractured and broken.

There was no credence for
him anymore.

NARRATOR: The United Kingdom,
still reeling from the massive

intake of expelled Asian refugees
from Uganda, had also had

enough of Amin's antics.

All ties between the two
nations were severed.

- Definitely after Entebbe his
reputation among the West

absolutely collapses and then
there's no, um, there's not

very much support for him from the
global West after that point.

NARRATOR: Yet in press conferences
Amin still claimed friendship

with Britain.

- The British are my best friends.

And your best friend is a friend who
can tell you you're a mistake.

NARRATOR: The madness continued.

After Britain cut off Uganda, Idi
Amin simply bestowed more grandiose

titles on himself including CBE,

Conqueror of the British Empire.

- 'His Excellency, President for
Life,

Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor
Idi Amin Dada,

VC, DSO, MC,

Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth
and Fishes of the Sea'.

NARRATOR: And then
without any irony at all...

- 'The Last King of Scotland.'

- His bearing just seemed to get
more and more ridiculous.

Turning up for TV
interviews in pyjamas.

And making the rather bold and
somewhat daft claim that he

was the Last King of Scotland.

NARRATOR: And as his madness grew so
did his ever-expanding family.

It's conservatively estimated that
he fathered as many as

sixty children.

To Idi Amin love and control
were one and the same.

- Even the diplomats were left
waiting uncomfortably for the

president to arrive.

With only a smile from Uganda's
roving ambassador, the former

Princess Elizabeth of Toro to
brighten what must have been

for them a painful situation.

NARRATOR: Princess Elizabeth of Toro
was a talented young lawyer

who resisted Idi Amin's advances.

She managed to flee Uganda
before Amin could harm her.

But she still paid a price for not
sleeping with her President.

She escaped, then her
brother was murdered.

In her memoirs she wrote that Amin
taunted her with the words...

- You missed your chance. You
could have been my Queen.

- It's here that, at the deeper
level,

the joy of sex and the

joy of violence become one.

And it comes through the
control and power over others.

That is, I can have sex with you,

kill you, injure you,

have you as a partner.

These are all merged.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile as Amin
retreated into

self-aggrandizement and
sexual conquest

Uganda's economy was in freefall.
Hospitals were empty.

Food prices had tripled.

Foreign journalists were expelled.

Inside Amin's compound rooms
filled with dismembered bodies,

freezers holding human remains,
heads kept as trophies.

- He turned Entebbe State House,
built grandly by the British,

into something of a drunk's paradise
with parties in the gardens

or by the swimming pool.

NARRATOR: By early 1979, Amin's hold
on power was rotting from the

inside out and that's the moment
the tyrant decided he had no

choice but to go to war.

- With his people

and his country starting to turn
against him, there was hunger

and unemployment and
financial difficulties.

Amin engaged the age-old tactic
of diverting attention by

starting a war.
So he invaded Tanzania.

- When he invades Tanzania it is
absolutely to shore up his

domestic legitimacy.

And that's a tool that
dictators often use.

If your domestic prestige seems low,
if you win a war you might

bolster your reputation.

And certainly that aligns with his
desire to have politics

centre around him. But his efforts
are ultimately a failure.

NARRATOR: In April 1979, Tanzanian
troops and Ugandan exiles

reached Kampala.

Amin was nowhere to be found.

- His invasion of Tanzania
was his final mistake.

He tried to invade Tanzania

and he was repulsed by a
combination of the Tanzanian

armed forces and Ugandan exiles in
Tanzania from tribes that

he'd persecuted.

They repulse them, they move into
Uganda where they're able to

seize the capital and that's what
causes the fall of Amin and

his flight into exile.

NARRATOR: There would be no final
speech, no last stand.

April 11, 1979.

The streets of
Kampala echo with relief.

Idi Amin has fled.

First to Libya, welcomed by Colonel
Gaddafi, a fellow tyrant whose

public flamboyance also concealed a
private brutality

and sexual sadism.

Then on to Saudi Arabia, where he
would live out the rest of

his life in quiet exile.

With just his last two wives,
Suicide Sarah and

Mama A Chumaru, to comfort him.

- He does disappear in the sense
that he leaves, he flees

understanding quite rightly that his
time is, is up and that was

preferable to him
evidently to, to death.

NARRATOR: In his wake the silent
screams of 300,000 victims,

prisons, torture chambers,
a broken economy.

- Swarms of people carrying away
huge bags of sugar from a

warehouse in downtown Kampala.

Here 300,000 sacks were stored by
Amin whilst sugar ceased to

be available on the streets.

NARRATOR: Uganda's nightmare wasn't
over but its architect had

disappeared.

Once safely out of harm's way one of
his personal physicians would reveal

that he had treated the dictator
with conditions ranging from

hypomania, schizophrenia and
tertiary syphilis.

In the end Amin's mindlessness and
sybaritic lifestyle did the

job for him.

He died from kidney
failure in July 2003.

- What you see throughout history
with tyrants, in the modern

term, dictators, is
always the same thing.

Unchallenged. And how,
what does this mean?

They either don't allow anyone to
talk to them or they surround

themselves with yes men.

And that means they never have any
real idea of what is going on.

Idi Amin was a personally and
intellectually limited person,

who through opportunism,

craftiness
and manipulation became a terrible

dictator and always lacked the
internal ability to monitor

what he was doing and

brought about his own
downfall inevitably.

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