A Crazy Despot-Idi Amin

 A Crazy Despot - Idi Amin (Part-3)

Brutality of Idi Amin

A Debauchee:

   Idi Amin has been a debauchee too. His harem was full of women during his Presidency and he sired hundreds of children purposefully. He thought of living behind him a whole tribe known by his name.

   Officially Idi Amin had only four wives. The first, Sarah, known as “Mama Maliam”, was married to him in 1958. The second, Kay, was the daughter of a Protestant priest. The third was Norah and the fourth Medina. He would keep all his children with him in the presidential palace. He misused the Muslim law on divorce on March 26, 1974, when all of a sudden in a public function he divorced his first three wives- Maliam, kay and Norah, by repeating the word “talaq” three times. Idi Amin was so engrossed with his fourth wife, Medina, that he neglected the other three who established illegal relationship with other men. Kay was so full of venom that in order to take revenge upon her husband, she became pregnant by her lover. Idi Amin was so incensed that he put them behind bars and killed their lovers. Maliam and kay escaped and fled from Uganda and Norah was murdered by him. She was dismembered and her breasts were spitted from her body while alive. Then he got her corpse stitched, covered it by a sheet up to neck called her children and told them that their mother was a whore.

Idi Amin-A Crazy Despot

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Idi Amin

Ghastly Murders:

   Simultaneously with the coup, an era of ghastly murders began in Uganda. The first on the list was the Chief of the Army staff, Brig Hussein. He was captured by the troops loyal to Idi Amin and taken to a maximum security Prison where he was clubbed with rifle butts and kicked in the presence of horrified jail warders. The dying officer was then loaded on to an armored military vehicle, driven out the prison and beating with rifle butts was resumed.

   Brig Hussein succumbed to the ghastly treatment meted out to him. His body was decapitated. His head was put on Idi Amin’s table, where he harangued it. Then it was kept in a fridge overnight.

   Idi Amin ordered some of the men he suspected of disloyalty to be thrown behind the bars at Makindye prison. At dusk, a group of army officers would enter the barrack where these people were kept and started beating them mercilessly. Their bellies were gashed with curved knives, and before dawn their corpses were loaded on a military carrier and dumped at various sites. The next morning the prisoners in the adjoining cell were ordered to clean the floor of the barrack with scrubbing brushes and water.  According to an eye-witness “the blood on the floor was a quarter of an inch thick. There were pieces of skill, teeth, brain tissue and dozens of empty shell cases.”

Idi Amin-the Hitler of Uganda

  Idi Amin - The Hitler of Uganda (Part-1)

Idi Amin

   The diabolic deeds created by Idi Amin are legion. But what give a particularly inhuman edge to these acts are the elements of sexual willfulness that was a part of it. Suffering from a venereal disease himself, Idi Amin reveled in perpetrating sexual torture on his opponents. He was a cannibal and openly announced his preference for salted human flesh. His former Health Minister vouchsafed that he would often visit hospital morgues to taste the human body and flesh. Could Satan be more evil than Idi Amin?

   Idi Amin was born in 1928 at Koboko, the smallest country in Uganda’s West Nile district. He was better known as “the Hitler of Uganda”. Idi Amin’s father was a marginal farmer, his parents separated at his birth and he had a distraught childhood. His mother was what use to be described as a camp follower. After some time, she started living with a man about her age. In 1954, she moved into Jinja barracks to live with Corporal Yasin, a clerk in King’s African Rifles. Corporal Yasin was in his early twenties and about half her age. She practiced witchcraft and Yasin got tired of her and turned her out. A few days later, Yasin reported sick and before he could be medically examined, he died.

   Idi Amin first served as a laborer at the sugar plantations owned by the Mehtas, the millionaire industrialist from Gujarat in India, who were the first Asian to be expropriated and thrown out of Uganda when Idi Amin assumed power.

   Idi Amin joined the King’s African Rifles in 1946 as an assistant cook. He was six feet four inches in height and one quintal (One hundred kg) in weight.  He became Ugandan heavyweight boxing champion and held the title for nine years. His officers found him obedient, though a bit short in grey matter.