I lived in Uganda during the early years of his coup and all turned into toal chaos and fear by 1971. My dad was at Makerere University in the Biology deopartment from 1966-1971. More than once I was in the same room (bar hotel, swimming pool, etc.) with drunken Idi, and he scared the living hell out of all of us. He cut lovely Uganda down into the ground further and further each year, and the only foreign folks that were providing much aid during those early years were the Danes and a few others. It is totally incredible that the rest of the world turned a blind eye on the crazy anticts of this spoiled, uneducated, evil lunatic that raped and murdered Uganda for so many decades. I have not yet been able to see the new movie, but have feared that he would be portrayed as being more "educated" or sophisticated than he actually was.
I lived in Uganda during the early years of his coup and all turned into toal chaos and fear by 1971. My dad was at Makerere University in the Biology deopartment from 1966-1971. More than once I was in the same room (bar hotel, swimming pool, etc.) with drunken Idi, and he scared the living hell out of all of us. He cut lovely Uganda down into the ground further and further each year, and the only foreign folks that were providing much aid during those early years were the Danes and a few others. It is totally incredible that the rest of the world turned a blind eye on the crazy anticts of this spoiled, uneducated, evil lunatic that raped and murdered Uganda for so many decades. I have not yet been able to see the new movie, but have feared that he would be portrayed as being more "educated" or sophisticated than he actually was.