Idi Amin

accepted concept of morality of their time. In this essay, Idi Amin, the third president of Uganda, will be evaluated based on the morality of his actions as a leader of Uganda. In order to develop a valid basis for evaluation, the school of thought developed by John Stuart Mill, a prominent English philosopher of…

In both documentaries, General Idi Amin Dada and The Act of Killing, the authors spent a considerable amount of time with the perpetrators of mass murder. In The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer gets access to the executioners, gangsters and paramilitary leaders who carried out millions of mass killings. In General Idi Amin, Barbet Schroeder spent time with one of the greatest mass murderers and the third Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada. Schroeder was able to document his firsthand account of…

Idi Amin was born on 1925 in Koboko. His father abandoned him as a little child and left his mother to take care of him. He only had a rudimentary education and decided to join the military. Idi joined the King’s African Rifles, which was a regiment of the British colonial army. His job in the military was being an assistant cook. He quickly rose through the ranks and served in multiple wars and revolution. Idi started befriending very important people and that came to an advantage for him. As…

In the article Hope for Uganda’s child soldiers? It says “The LRA's long, bloody campaign is the legacy of the assumption of power two decades ago by President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner who helped end the string of bloody reigns by northerners such as Milton Obote and Idi Amin.” and then later in the same article it states “Uganda has hinted it will offer amnesty to Kony and other rebel leaders as a bargaining chip — just as it has allowed surrendering fighters to return home freely in the…

Idi Amin and Macbeth were both very similar characters, the only difference being that Macbeth was a fictional character and not causing distress to real people. Idi Amin was the President of Uganda from 1971-1979 and killed about 300, 000 people during this time. Before performing a military coup on the previous President, Amin had been rising through the military ranks but was soon going to be arrested for misusing army funds. Furthermore, Macbeth had started the play has the Thane of Glamis,…

“Child of Dandelions” by author Shenaaz Nanji is a novel that focuses on the protagonist Sabine and her Indian family, as they face injustices and struggle to escape from the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Sabine, her family, and the entire Indian community face many difficulties throughout the way, such as extreme racism. Child of Dandelions should be used as a full novel study for the I.B. program because it conveys international mindedness. It does so by illustrating military dictatorship through…

Merriam-Webster defines “sociopath” as “someone who behaves in a dangerous or violent way towards other people and does not feel guilty about such behavior.” Ah, I’m sure we all have someone who comes to mind: bosses, spouses, parents. When these people are in our immediate life their destructive behavior isn’t so funny. But when they are in the public eye hilarity ensues-- until we remember that a lot of these horribly funny people are in or have been in positions of political power. Let’s take…

Body Paragraph 1 TS- Golding’s writing foreshadows the savagery of Idi Amin through the behavior of the antagonist Jack in his novel, Lord of the Flies. MI1- Firstly, one of the greatest similarities that Idi Amin and Jack share is that they seized power “Illegally”. S1- Jack began to become popular among the other boys on the island due to his ethic to exclude work from their time on the island, because of this he gained strength in numbers, later making him the undeclared leader. S2- Just as…

the Parti Québécois (PQ) came to power in 1976 and required the language of French to be taught in schools and be on public signage. This was Bill 101 and the Anglo community did not approve of it. This is an instance of ethnocide because the PQ is forcing the Anglo civilizations to speak a certain language, thus keeping them from speaking their native, preferred language of English. This is destroying their cultural power, and subsequently their culture. In addition, a third example happened in…

a young Scottish doctor, arrives in Uganda to help out in a rural hospital. Once he is settled there he meets Idi Amin the new president of Uganda, who took power by a military coup. Garrigan becomes Amin’s personal physician, later he starts noticing the corruption that is taking place with the government. Admin becomes less stable mentally and goes on a killing-spree of anyone that opposed his government. Garrigan wanting out from his services decides to leave but he is denied his request to…