DTN News - WHEN GREAT DICTATORS FALL: Idi Amin Dada, Uganda
(NSI News Source Info) KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - October 23, 2011: Mercifully for the people of Uganda, dictator Idi Amin Dada ruled only for nine years. However, it was a time of gross human rights transgressions, political repression, ethnic persecution, mass killings and corruption in the beleaguered African republic. Amin initially aligned with the West but quickly found an admiring ally in Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi. On public radio, he declared that he had assumed the title "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE." Incidentally, CBE stood for “Conqueror of the British Empire” – a self-bestowed honorific for his achievement of driving out British diplomats. He curried favor with the Soviet Union, which supplied him with arms. In 1976, Amin declared himself the “Last King of Scotland” (theme of a Hollywood movie with an Oscar-winning performance by Forest Whitaker). A polygamist known for his excessive tastes, Amin was the subject of several films and documentaries. After he was deposed in 1979, Amin fled to Libya and then to Saudi Arabia, where he died in hospital August 2003.
“As you sow, so you reap,” the Book says. They lived life large but came to ignominious and wretched ends. Here’s a look at the world’s greatest dictators of the 20th and 21st centuries.
This series on WORLD DICTATORS have been inspired by the latest episode of Libya's strong man / dictator Muammar Gaddafi ends/dies in such a horrible fashion, but it was his Karmas, he could have avoided this horric incident to occur by stepping down like Egypt's ex-President Mubarak. But Gaddafi thougt he was invisible and ending up like a rat in a drainage system as he was calling his opposition Libyan - rats. It shows, one must be careful accusing others as there is a saying "if you accuse or point a finger on other entity, the rest three fingers point back at you". The moral of this note in general is "RESPECT OTHERS and BE RESPECTED".
Most of the dictators (to follow up) during the 21st century would end the chapter of their life in similar circumstances alike Muammar Gaddafi, as they are unable to accept the changes with time and reality of life.
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