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{{Quote|Field Marshal Idi Amin became President of Uganda in 1971. To the rest of the world, he was a showman whose extravagance was matched only by his talent for comic buffoonery. But behind the grinning face was a calculating monster who brought a tragedy of monumental proportions. He slaughtered thousands of innocent Ugandans in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and executed his enemies live on television. He mutilated his wife and murdered his ministers, keeping their heads in his fridge as a warning to others. He ordered his secret police to torture and kill using sledgehammers while Amin kept the pictures for his own sick amusement. By the end of his reign, over 300,000 people had been murdered by Amin. He had turned the prosperous country of Uganda into a disease ridden backwater, its rivers choked with the corpses of his victims.|Introduction to a Discovery Channel documentary about Idi Amin}}

{{Quote|[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is wh the burnt over six million jews alive with gas on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the Palestinians with the assistance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village|A telegram sent to Kurt Waldheim by Amin in 1972}}

'''Idi Amin Dada '''(May 17, 1925 - August 16, 2003) was the military dictator and third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles in 1946, serving in Somalia and Kenya. Eventually, Amin held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.

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-{{Quote|Field Marshal Idi Amin became President of Uganda in 1971. To the rest of the world, he was a showman whose extravagance was matched only by his talent for comic buffoonery. But behind the grinning face was a calculating monster who brought a tragedy of monumental proportions. He slaughtered thousands of innocent Ugandans in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and executed his enemies live on television. He mutilated his wife and murdered his ministers, keeping their heads in his fridge as a warning to others. He ordered his secret police to torture and kill using sledgehammers while Amin kept the pictures for his own sick amusement. By the end of his reign, over 300,000 people had been murdered by Amin. He had turned the prosperous country of Uganda into a disease ridden backwater, its rivers choked with the corpses of his victims.|Introduction to a Discovery Channel documentary about Idi Amin}}
+{{Quote|[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is wh the burnt over six million jews alive with gas on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the Palestinians with the assistance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village|A telegram sent to Kurt Waldheim by Amin in 1972}}
-{{Quote|[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is wh the burnt over six million jews alive with gas on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the Palestinians with the assistance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village|A telegram sent to Kurt Waldheim by Amin in 1972}}
 '''Idi Amin Dada '''(May 17, 1925 - August 16, 2003) was the military dictator and third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles in 1946, serving in Somalia and Kenya. Eventually, Amin held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.