Rethinking Amin: An Asian’s perspective | Monitor Online

Vali Jamal

There’s considerable discussion in the media these days about the reign of Idi Amin Dada, most of it centring on the question of terror he unleashed in the last five years of his rule.

It is estimated that he killed 300,000 – 500,000 people. Taking the medium figure, that is like four per cent of Uganda’s population at that time and one-fifth of adult males.

via Monitor Online | Insights | Rethinking Amin: An Asian’s perspective.
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