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.

Jack the Ripper-The Mysterious Murderer

  The Mysterious Murderer - Jack the Ripper (Part 1)

Jack the Ripper

   The mystery that could never be solved. Who was this mysterious murderer, who not only killed but carved the bodies of his victims like an expert surgeon? There were many theories regarding his identity and motive, but the truth could never be found out. For three months this devilish killer created terror in the East End area of London. Only the poor, famished and economically weak people lived in this section of London. Living a life that could only be described as living hell, the knife of Jack the Ripper added terror and misery to it. All his victims were prostitutes who roamed the streets at night selling their bodies for a small amount of money. He was brave enough to write mocking letters to the police daring them to arrest him. Once, he sent the kidney of his victim in a parcel, claiming that he had fried and eaten the other one. And then, the murders stopped as suddenly as they began.

   It was called the Bank Holiday Monday. It was on this day on August 6, 1888, that a mysterious murderer made his debut in the East End area of London. Soon, it came to be known as “Black Monday”, as Jack the Ripper committed his first murder on that day. It was not that murder was something uncommon in the area. But, the brutal and horrendous manner in which it was carried out sent shock waves throughout London. From then on for three months, London’s East End lived under the terror of this devilish killer who selected only prostitutes as his victims. It was in this hellish atmosphere that Jack the Ripper knifed six prostitutes to death for no apparent reason.

Target Manchuria

John T. Downey

  Target Manchuria

   The working methods of Chinese intelligence agencies generally remain in the dark. Very little is heard about them. There have been only two cases that throw some light on their modus operandi and efficiency. One of them is the unsuccessful operation known as “Target Manchuria”. It demonstrated to the world that the Chinese also do not lag behind in counter intelligence operations.

   John T. Downey, who worked as a trainer of agents in CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) could hardly imagine that he would find himself in a soup in his very first mission. But, fate decreed that he had to spend the next twenty years in a prison. Actually, it was not his job to go to Manchurian. His job was to train the Taiwanese against for dropping into China during the Korean War. But, he decided to go with them just for his experiences.

   He started from Seoul (South Korea) on November 29, 1952, with nine Taiwanese agents. They had to go to the Manchurian. These agents had to be dropped there and sum other agents working in another part of China had to be picked up. John T. Downey was accompanied by another CIA man, Richard Fecteau.

Bodies that Do not Decay

      Bodies that Do not Decay - Part 2

The Mummies of the Capuchin monks

   The mummies of the Capuchin monks are a good example of the bodies that do not decay. Furthermore, the sites of burial are at times chosen in such a way that decomposition is delayed. The case of the Capuchin monks hanging like broken dolls in the catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, is well known. The bodies of the monks have not decayed although they were left exposed to the air. It was discovered that the air in these catacombs has the peculiar property of drying out the bodies and turning them into natural mummies.

   A 19th century traveler wrote about these mummies, “They are all dressed in the clothes they usually wore......the skin and muscles become as dry and hard as a piece of stockfish and through many of them have been here upward of two hundred and fifty years, yet none are reduced to skeletons.”

Mata Hari - The World Famous Sex Spy

    Mata Hari, the most famous Woman and Sex Spy in History - Part 2

Mata Hari

   Mata Hari had spread a romantic story regarding herself. She said that she had been born in Malabar in South India, her mother was a dancer and that she had died during her birth. Mata Hari had also published that her name in childhood was Mata Hari and that she had been brought up in a Siva Temple. If we consider these words, her name appears to be quite significant as Mata Hari in India Language means a “Killer of one’s mother”.

   The popularity of Mata Hari, the black-haired beauty, began to touch the heights of fame. Just before the outbreak of the War, Mata Hari received espionage training in a school in Lorchi. In 1912 when the First World War broke out, Mata Hari was seen driving on the streets of Germany in the company of Berlin’s Police Chief. But at that time she was the citizen of a neutral country and her estate was in France. Mata Hari returned to Franc in 1913 in spite of the War. She gave up dancing and established herself as a fashionable personality.

Bodies that don’t Decay

         Bodies that don't Decay - Part 1

   Everybody must know about the mummies of the ancient Egyptian emperors, which were found inside the Pyramids in Egypt. But the strange thing is that, how is it that some people preserve dead bodies for years and years together? Not long ago a woman in India preserved the dead body of her husband for twelve long years. She not only preserved the body, but she bathed it daily and even slept in the same room. The case was too strange. It shook the loving sensibilities of the people. The press reported exhaustively on it and the woman was sent for a medical check-up.

Mummy of Muhammad Marwe

   This is not the only case in the world. There are many others. What then is the reason for preserving a dead body and how do people do it? A little girl named Nadja Mattei died in 1965 in Rome, Italy. She was just two years old at the time of her death. Her mother put the body into a coffin. But for twelve years she continuously dreamt that her daughter was begging to be taken out of the coffin. So the devoted mother tried to convince the authorities to let her open the coffin. But all her efforts were unsuccessful till 1977, when finally the exhumation of Baby Nadja Mattei was granted. Then to every one’s surprise, the body was found to be completely free from rotting. 

   A similar incident occurred at Kano, North of Nigeria. An unorthodox Muslim religious group was led by a self-styled prophet, Muhammad Marwa. He had established himself in 1960s and had a enormous number of followers. But seemingly everything was not as peaceful as it should have been. The orthodox Muslims were against him. Finally the brewing tension exploded in December 1980. A violent riot took place in which as many as eight thousand people were killed. This heretical or unorthodox Muslim leader was also killed in that riot.

Mata Hari, The Most Famous Woman Spy in History

The Most Famous Woman Spy

   The Most Famous Woman Spy in the History - Part 1

   The word Mata Hari means the “morning star”. A Dutch beauty called Gertrud Margrete Zelle had unsuccessfully tried to change the course of the First World War by working as a spy under the name of Mata Hari. She is the most well known sex spy of the modern age. She worked for German as a spy. The strongest weapon which she had was her unique sensual beauty which held great attention for the opposite sex. The French shot her dead after charging her with spying, but many experts believe that in spite of all her efforts Mata Hari never succeeded in finding out any very important secret. Another group feels that she was an extremely dangerous professional spy and she had not been shot dead, the outcome of the First World War would have been quite different.

   After learning the Hawaian dance in Java she became a cabaret dancer in Paris. There she would entertain Army Officers with her dances all through the night, she would send to Germans. In the list of Germans Spies, Mata Hari’s name bore the code number “H-21”. Even today there is a controversy whether Mata Hari succeeded or not in securing any vital information from Paris, Berlin and Madrid, the places where she was worked as a spy.

   In 1916, Mata Hari had been arrested by the British Secret Service in Falmouth, England from where she was going to Netherlands. There she was warned that if she did not give up attracting Army Officers by her sexual advances, she would be punished cruelly. Mata Hari did not heed this warning. Consequently she had to face the fire spouting machine guns of the Firing Squad.