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1. Amin Had What For Dinner? (Hussein Amin)
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 06:25:13 +0300
From: Hussein Amin <[email protected]>
To: Ugandans-at-heart <[email protected]>, Uganda
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Subject: [WestNileNet] Amin Had What For Dinner?
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That Time When Obote Claimed Amin Was A Cannibal Who Had Eaten His Son.
Dear Ugandans,
In the 70's, a hostile Milton Obote forgot that he had himself earlier
grabbed power by force from President Muteesa in 1966 before he was also
deposed by the army in 1971. He was therefore doing anything possible to
reclaim his clearly illegitimate presidency.
To that end, and together with his disgruntled friends, dictator Milton
plotted hard, and the Oboteists then started fabricating outrageous rumours
against Field Marshal Idi Amin.
Their falsehoods churn rate was quite high.
First he decided that they would best fool everyone if they called
themselves "liberators". It was British reporter David Martin who made the
suggestion after watching the Southern Africa liberation struggles and the
support they gained within the indigenous African masses from the slogan.
When they failed to get any public support inside Uganda from the marketing
gimmick, they started working on claims that Idi Amin had murdered 30,000
people. That's the first number that Oboteists gave the Geneva-based
International Commission of Jurists.
When that claim didn't catch on either, they went to Amnesty International
and told them that the number wasn't 30,000 but 100,000.
In my interactions with Andrew Mwenda two years ago on social media, the
prolific Ugandan journalist "didn't think it could be more than 10,000".
I deliberately asked him to justify his claim knowing well that even ten
thousand was pure invention rather than sound mathematics based on any
reality.
The reason being that during Amin's entire reign, there had only been two
major incidents.
The first being when he came to power (1971) and where approximately 500
soldiers died on both sides during fighting between Obote loyalists and the
army.
The second and last major confrontation was a year later (September 1972)
when about 340 rebels attacked the country and were defeated. This figure
is from Mr. Yoweri Museveni's book "Sowing the mustard seed", and he was
the rebels commander.
So besides these two battles, where were the other outrageous numbers from
I asked?
In their struggle to defame Amin, Oboteists creativity had gone in
overdrive. They then came up with more slander, this time claiming that Idi
Amin was a cannibal who had enjoyed his son Moses for dinner.
The limits to what they were ready to do in order to be the ones to rule
the country was seemingly open-ended.
The western media did their noble part in publishing these despicable
falsehoods in otherwise respectable encyclopedia and news media.
A few years later when reknown Kenyan journalist Mohamed Amin came to
interview Idi Amin in Saudi Arabia (1981), the reporter did the right thing
when he asked the former military ruler for proof that Moses was alive and
well.
Idi Amin reluctantly sent for Moses, and the journalist insisted on taking
this unpublished picture.
Everywhere I travel people are always asking me if the rumors about Idi
Amin were true. So I guess it is worth sharing with todays young Ugandans.
Shouldn't they know that there was incredible deliberate slander against
the former African President, and it was all orchestrated by Apollo Milton
Obote and his friends from Britain?
The second picture is Moses Amin more recently. He is still alive to this
day, and just got engaged.
Regards,
Hussein Lumumba Amin.
Secretary of the Family Administrative Committee.
Kampala, Uganda.
Date: 01/06/2016
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