Before seeing this documentary on Idi Amin on history, I thought he was just this black leader of some obscure country.
Turns out that there was another Hitler alive this century. The pictures of Idi Amin's opened torture chambers were so disgusting that they looked right out of the war pages of a LIFE issue.
this guy was foolish, brutal and so bloody ambitious that he actually lost the dignity of a president because of this. Hitler didn't go around honouring himself with medals for wars in which he has never faught and declaring himself Kings of Countries ruled by other Monarchs.
Idi Amin, thought that he could get away by titling himself the King of Scotland. He probably renamed the kawakai (or some such weird African name for a weird piece of African growth) plant behind his mansion as Scotland.
The Saddest part of the documentary was that the white guy at the end, blamed it all on Amin, when the worst part of the Colonial rule was their legacy of destruction that they left behind - they didn't seem to think they were to blame for anything.
As a parallel, look at the Pakistan-India partition.
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