Idi Amin rose from a teenage recruit in the King’s African Rifles to the presidency of Uganda through a military[...] ...

See how Idi Amin used military force to achieve power and build a dictatorship in Uganda. See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda.

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight ...

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator who died last week, was notoriously brutal and capricious. He was also notoriously hungry for publicity. Amin, as his obituary in the New York Times put it, ...