While stationed in Ethiopia, I visited Uganda just two weeks prior to Amin's dream of disposing of all non-Ugandans'. I rented a VW beetle and drove from Kampala to Murchison Falls and returned to Kampala. Had I known what was going on , I would not have taken that trip as it was a dangerous tiime to be there. I knew from talking with people, particularly, Asians, who ran most of the enterprises, that something bad was brewing in the country. In addition, nothing was running well...Hotels, transportation, restaurants, and factories were all affected by the Amin nationalization of business establishments...He was truly an uneducated idiot a degenerate and nasty. Thousands were slaughted by this son of a B! The movie really bothered me as it broght back many bad memories we lived through. I did not depart Ethiopia until Haile Selassie was arrested and confined in 1975, when Americans were asked to depart. Forest Whitaker did a marvelous job of portraying Amin and deserves the Academy Award.
While stationed in Ethiopia, I visited Uganda just two weeks prior to Amin's dream of disposing of all non-Ugandans'. I rented a VW beetle and drove from Kampala to Murchison Falls and returned to Kampala. Had I known what was going on , I would not have taken that trip as it was a dangerous tiime to be there. I knew from talking with people, particularly, Asians, who ran most of the enterprises, that something bad was brewing in the country. In addition, nothing was running well...Hotels, transportation, restaurants, and factories were all affected by the Amin nationalization of business establishments...He was truly an uneducated idiot a degenerate and nasty. Thousands were slaughted by this son of a B! The movie really bothered me as it broght back many bad memories we lived through. I did not depart Ethiopia until Haile Selassie was arrested and confined in 1975, when Americans were asked to depart. Forest Whitaker did a marvelous job of portraying Amin and deserves the Academy Award.