From 1971 until 1979, Uganda was until the dictatorial control of Idi Amin. Amin had previously been part of an arm of the British colonial army called the King’s African Rifles (KAR) and had an alliance with Uganda’s post decolonization leader Milton Obote. After Obote suspended the Ugandan constitution and declared himself executive president, Amin went about on a tangent that included dethroning a king in the south central part of the country and. After his loyalty was questioned by Obote, Idi Amin overthrew him in a coup and took over as president of Uganda.

Amin ordered Christian tribes who were loyal to Obote to be executed and organized security forces that terrorized the general public which worked much like any dictatorial security forces. He expelled the country’s Asian population which resulted in the economy on the agriculture, manufacturing and commerce to collapse and without any additional support to fill the 50,000 to 70,000 population gap left behind, it greatly struggled. Amin also welcomed the Palestinian based terrorist group Liberation Front of Palestine when they hijacked an Air France plane on its way to France from Israel in 1976 but was mortified when the passengers were rescued by Israeli commandos at Entebbe Airport. In the aftermath, Idi Amin had several airport personnel and hundreds of Kenyans who he believed had conspired with Israel as well a British hostage. In fact, Idi Amin killed so much people that he earned the nickname the Butcher of Uganda.

Idi Amin was over thrown by neighbouring Tanzania’s army when the Ugandan capital was captured Kampala. How did he tick Tanzania off this bad? Well it happened because his allied circled was immensely decimated by his purges and some of the survivors booked it to Tanzania. This resulted in Amin accusing the Tanzanian president of instigating the unrest and he made the greatest blunder ever that could be described as stirring up a hornet’s nest. He annexed the Kagera Salient which provoked an invasion. Idi first took refuge in Libya before spending his twilight years in Saudi Arabia where he died in August 2003.