![]() ![]() Under his reign, the Ugandan economy collapsed, what should have been a prosperous nation was turned into one of the poorest performing economies. They were allowed to steal anything from anybody with killing their victims largely acceptable. He created a cadre of brutal henchmen whose only purpose was to terrorize the population into submission and grow rich in the process. In a continent where brutal, murderous dictators are the norm, Amin was one of the worst. I had read this book when it first came out and the movie prompted me to read it again. Amin was basically an uneducated thug who managed to take control of a nation and destroy it. Although some of the characters in the movie are fictitious, the general plotline is accurate. ![]() My fiancé and I recently went to see the Academy Award winning movie, "The Last King of Scotland." In it Forest Whitaker gives a vivid and accurate portrayal of Idi Amin, the brutal former dictator of Uganda. ![]()
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