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1925–2003 Uganda
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (May 17, 1925 – August 16, 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
Also known as: Amin, Idi, Idi Amin Dada
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Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph.D.s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.
Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974)
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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You cannot run faster than a bullet.
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My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
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Hitler and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the people of the world and that is why they burnt over six million Jews alive on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the Palestinians, with the assitance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village.
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His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
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