Abayombo, The answer is pure and simple. Three words......! Amin was thier Boy! Just like Dictator Museveni. Inspite of the fact that people like the other guy from Kosovo are being accused of abusing the fundamental rights of HIS people, Uganda's northerners and northeasterners are dying on a daily basis, no body, NONE, NO ONE from the USA or UK have come out to call dictator Museveni what he is exactly: A Murderer and DIctator of irst class". I am glad you posted this. SO do not worry about Idi Amin, after all he has never been a threat to anybody.
Bwambuga. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page B06 > > > >THE MIDDLE EAST is a place in and about which people seem to do a great deal >of moral agonizing. They debate the morality of the Israeli occupation of the >West Bank, of the use of suicide bombings to resist it, of America's invasion >of Iraq and every facet of the efforts to rebuild that stricken country. How >strange, then, that one of the most morally unambiguous public figures of the >last century -- he's a criminal pure and simple, a murderer on a horrifying >scale -- has been able to spend his final years in comfortable retirement in that >very agitated region, protected by one of its most prominent governments. > >We're not talking here about Saddam Hussein, of course, but about Idi Amin, >the former ruler of the East African nation of Uganda, which is still >recovering from his depredations. Mr. Amin, who at last report lay on his deathbed in >Saudi Arabia, on life support, was ousted in 1979 after an eight-year reign of >terror that took perhaps 300,000 lives. After being chased out of his country >by the army of neighboring Tanzania (which he had made the mistake of >attacking), he was able to settle in Saudi Arabia, which apparently gave him haven >because he professes to be a devout Muslim -- and never mind the many devout >Muslims who died and suffered under his rule. The gruesome, sometimes bizarre >details of the atrocities committed against Ugandans under Idi Amin were widely >reported in the world press at the time. And yet during nearly a quarter of a >century, there was little or no outcry -- from the Arab "street," from the >United States, from Europeans or from anybody else other than some human rights >advocates -- about bringing him to justice. > >Not long ago an Italian journalist named Riccardo Orizio tracked down Idi >Amin for a book about former dictators. Mr. Orizio reports that, like most of >those he interviewed, Mr. Amin felt little remorse for his actions. Certainly the >people he came in contact with gave him little reason to do so. > >Idi Amin escaped the criminal trial that he deserved and the people of Uganda >needed. He was often dismissed in the West as a clown -- an attitude both >demeaning and coldly callous to Africans. In a time when such names as Milosevic, >Hussein and Pinochet are bruited about as meriting trial, why wasn't the name >of Idi Amin heard more often -- and thrown up as an accusation to those who >harbored him? > > > > >© 2003 The Washington Post Company > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything. Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim. Michael Bwambuga. __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
