Let record show that the only British man that competed in killing Africans
with Bob Astles was Ken Shaw a Police Officer that was commanding in
Nairobi, who was shooting Kenyans on a street in day time. Unlike Ugandans
that decided to drink with Bob Astles in UK than suing him into Hague,
Kenyans actually stalked Shaw and murdered him in Kenya.
Let the discussion on Bob Astles now start.
EM
On the 49th
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Subject: {UAH} EVIL WHITE IDI AMIN'S "WHITE RAT"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/evil-idi-amins-white-rat-445528
evil idi amin's 'white rat' .. now living in a leafy london ... - Daily
Mirror
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/evil-idi-amins-white-rat-445528>
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www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/evil-idi-amins-white-rat-445528
Jan 6, 2007 TYRANT Idi Amin's British henchman Bob Astles is alive and
well and living in South-West London, we can reveal.
* By Nick Webster <http://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/nick-webster/>
* Comments
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EVIL IDI AMIN'S 'WHITE RAT' .. NOW LIVING IN A LEAFY LONDON SUBURB
6 Jan 2007 00:00 <http://www.mirror.co.uk/by-date/06-01-2007>
TYRANT Idi Amin's British henchman Bob Astles is alive and well and living
in South-West London, we can reveal.
WHEN the graves were full and gravediggers could no longer keep up, the
corpses were fed to crocodiles in the Nile.
A part, that is, from the heads Idi Amin kept in the fridges of his
presidential palace in Kampala.
In the bloody history of the African continent, the man who called himself
His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin,
VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and
Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in
Particular had no equal.
A homicidal bully, Idi Amin was as mad as he was wicked, a whimsical tyrant
who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of fellow
Ugandans.
And at his side through most of his eight dreadful years in power was his
British henchman, Bob Astles - probably the head of his hated secret police
and certainly the second most feared man in Uganda.
Now a fictionalised version of Amin's reign, The Last King Of Scotland, is
about to be shown on UK cinema screens. In the film, Astles has been turned
into a young doctor played by Shameless and Narnia star James McAvoy.
But the Mirror can reveal the real Astles is still alive and reasonably
well.
Now 81, Astles - who was nicknamed the White Rat by the Ugandans who feared
him - lives out his last days in a suburb of South-West London.
Any memorabilia from his infamous earlier life is hidden behind the net
curtains of the three-storey 1930s home he shares with an elderly companion.
Little do his neighbours know that the pensioner with the white hair and
full moustache was the closest confidant of Idi Amin, a monster who once
complained that human flesh tasted "a little salty".
In the 70s, before the reality of his terrifying reign emerged, Britain
laughed at parodies of this crazed African leader who, in one of his many
moments of lunacy, declared himself the last King of Scotland.
As for Astles, the Kent-born former soldier was promoted to the rank of
major by the dictator, but Astles was not always in favour.
On four occasions Amin, on a whim, ordered the death of "Major Bob". These
violent mood swings terrified anyone who came into contact with Amin, and
Astles admits he was no different.
"Scared of him?" he said in a rare interview, with the BBC. "My hair would
go on end but I was a fighter. The last time he arranged for me to be
killed, he sent for my wife and said, 'Go and look at him for the last
time.'
"He was a mad man obviously."
In the new film starring Forest Whittaker as Amin, the dictator meets his
British side-kick Dr Garrigan when he treats him after a road accident.
In reality it was Amin who came to the aid of Astles when the pair first
came face to face.
In 1962 Astles, who had just set up the first Ugandan airline to employ
Africans, was close to drowning in the waters of Lake Victoria when the huge
captain in the 4th King's African Rifles dived in and saved him.
And almost 10 years later, when Amin came to power in a military coup,
Astles was quick to support him.
But nothing could protect him from the dictator's rages.
Within months he was thrown into one of the country's most notorious prisons
for some perceived slight against Amin.
Henry Kyemba, former private secretary to Idi Amin, believes it was Astles'
jail experience which moulded the man he remembers as the tyrant's "lapdog".
The Ugandan politician, who first revealed the horrors of Amin's regime,
says: "Astles got out of prison and thought he must lick Amin's boots to
survive. Whether he respected Amin for his brutality or excess I don't know.
"I don't think there are many Ugandans who would have much respect for the
game he played... The best one can do if one cannot change things is to
leave."
In fact, when Astles was offered the opportunity to leave, he refused.
While banged up in Makindye prison, where the usual method of execution was
a sledgehammer to the head, the guards announced all Europeans were to be
flown back to London.
BUT Astles refused to leave his cell. "I don't want to go to London," he
shouted. "I'm a Ugandan. I belong here. Shut that bloody door!"
The remarkable show of loyalty impressed Amin. Astles was released and soon
gained so much influence he was said to head Uganda's dreaded secret police,
the State Research Bureau.
Astles, at the very least, was Idi's sycophant- in-chief.
Visitors to Amin's Presidential Lodge on the shore of Lake Victoria recall
him rushing across the lawns, shouting "H.E! H.E!" shorthand for Amin's
favoured title, His Excellency.
Some observers believe that in Astles, who'd arrived in Uganda as a road
gang foreman in the 1950s, Amin saw a kindred spirit, another man from a
lowly background like his own.
But Astles himself says he survived by simply keeping his mouth shut.
When he did flee Uganda, escaping across Lake Victoria, Astles quickly
returned, saying he could not leave his family.
He had married twice in Uganda. After his English first wife Monica left
him, he wed Mary Senkatuka, a noble from the kingdom of Bunganda with whom
he had two children.
"What choice did I have?" he said. "I was a refugee in England. What did I
leave behind me? My wife in prison, my children taken out of school, my
staff arrested. Should I just let my wife die?"
Yet while history shows Major Bob at the shoulder of one of Africa's most
sadistic despots, he has always denied any crimes.
He says he never killed anyone, never took a salary from Amin, denies people
feared him, and claims to have hated his boss.
"Amin called me a 'rotten apple' on the radio.
"It was ordinary Africans who helped me to survive. One guard was kicked to
death for helping me."
Astles says he did not grieve at Amin's death three years ago in exile in
Saudi Arabia. But he still attempts to defend him...
"He could be very kind, you know," he said. "Although he could be brutal.
This was our trouble we had with him, up and down, up and down."
Up and down, up and down to the tune of tens of thousands of murdered
Ugandans, expelled Asians and insane proclamations.
Eventually Amin was overthrown and Major Bob fled to Kenya where he was
arrested and returned to Kampala, to be charged with a long list of offences
ranging from murder to the theft of women's underwear.
He served six hard years in jail, before finally returning to Britain. "They
starved me down to less than eight stone, but I wouldn't die," he said on
his return
Today he lives a life of anonymity in leafy Wimbledon where his companion
Betty Julius says he's avoiding the spotlight focused on him by the new film
by going sailing in Portugal.
She said: "He doesn't like talking about the old days - as far as he's
concerned, it's all in the past."
For his part, Astles does not regret a single moment of his days with the
butcher of Uganda.
He said: "If I had to serve my life again, I would go through it again."
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