IDI! IDI AMIN! PLEASE COME HOME!

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Whatever happened to that whacky, carefree, cannibal psycho-dictator?

Last I heard, he was in an insane asylum in Saudi Arabia, but rumors are he got out. How? What’s he up to now? And are the rumors true? Is he the new Spice Girl? Will he co-host a talk show with Pat Boone? Come on, people. I need answers!

[Sofa_King]

Word on the street is that Dude’s got the syph, so if you run into him, no hanky panky.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

Insane asylum?

New Internationalist Issue 275 - where are they now?
(note - this issue appeared in 1996)

Idi Amin Dada
NOW - Deposed by an invading Tanzanian army in 1979, Amin and his two wives fled to Saudi Arabia, where he initially cost his hosts, the Saudi Royal family, around $2,000 a day. He now lives a quiet life in a modest villa outside Jeddah, looking after his goats and chickens and cultivating his vegetable garden. Traditional Arab garb has replaced the bemedalled Field Marshal’s uniform of his heyday. And his social highlight is meeting other Ugandan exiles for coffee in one of Jeddah’s main hotels.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

Here’s what The Black World Today had to say:

Idi Amin just won’t go away (04-30-99)
By Wairagala Wakabi

Recently The Telegraph of London wrote that the ex-dictator eats 40 oranges a day to keep up his sex power. He lives in a plush suburb in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and spends much of his time reading the Quoran, cruising around in convertible BMWs and Mercedes Benzes, and swimming. He conferred a doctorate of law on himself from Makerere University, declared himself a field marshal and life president of Uganda. He also awarded himself various titles like MC, VSO, CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire).
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President Yoweri Museveni, who never seems to tire of talking ill against Amin (and Obote) said early this year that Amin has called Sate House Kampala three times seeking an audience with him (Museveni) but it has been refused. It is not clear what the ex-dictator has on his mind that he wants to tell Museveni. But the whole world is now convinced he has no more interests in being president.