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Idi Amin Dada
Dictator
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Idi Amin Dada was the President of Uganda from 1971 until 1979. His tenure witnessed much sectarian violence, including the persecution of the Acholi, Lango, Indian and other ethnic groups as well as Hindus and Christians. Over the years, Ugandans would disappear in the thousands, their mutilated bodies washing up on the shores of Lake Victoria. Reports indicate the torture and murder of 100,000 to 300,000 Ugandans during Amin's presidency. In 1972, he began to expel Asians from Uganda, claiming God had told him to do so. Amin would even boast of being a "reluctant" cannibal - human flesh, he said, was too salty. In 1979, Amin was forced to flee the country when the Tanzanian army, aided by Ugandan, took the city. src="
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