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What do you guys think about Idi Amin, leader of Uganda from 1971 to 1979? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Was he a brutal dictator, or was he (somehow) not?

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 days ago

I think he is one of the few people we can universally agree upon was a complete nutjob. His coming up is somewhat contested but it seems generally accepted that he was an Israeli pawn used to keep Uganda as a weapons smuggling hub into Sudan where at the time Israel was funding rebel groups.