Idi Amin

alone. Both fear and love are relatively easy to establish among a population, but are prone to escaping one’s control. Fear becomes almost synonymous with hate when it is utilized by an inept ruler and can quickly lead to revolt. Take for example Idi Amin, self-proclaimed “president for life” of Uganda who…

The Raid on Entebbe In his article, “We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 years on”, Jonathan Freedland stated this quote from an unknown Israeli special forces operative “Lie down, don’t get up. The army is here, the army is here”, during an active hostage rescue mission. When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv bound for Paris, no one on board could foresee the flight being hijacked. As the plane stopped in Athens for fuel, 4 terrorists boarded. Eventually…

domination over their society. A tactic used were the special police who took down groups that were considered unreliable and unwanted. They used terrorism through police, military forces, and semi-autonomous, right-wing groups known as ‘death squads. Idi Amin’s methods were very similar to those of Hitler and Stalin as he also used military forces to remove anyone who oppose him, like the other two did. He was also responsible for a large amount of death, however not as many as Hitler and…

rescue the Israeli hostages. They could not afford to make the same mistake and were forced to disregard the sovereignty of Uganda in order to protect their citizens. It was also found that the Ugandan Government as well as the Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada, were conspiring with and supporting the PFLP terrorists. This meant…

The most common question people are compelled to ask when studying genocide is: why? Throughout our lives, we hear about these atrocities, and yet they never seem to make sense to the average person. Many people tend to look over the details, just reassuring themselves that these campaigns are led out by evil, sociopathic dictators. Yet, they forget to ask how these campaigns start and, once again, why they started in the first place. In the case of genocide, there are two main reasons why a…

Power can be defined as many things. It can be the ability to do something or act in a particular way. It can be the ability or right to control people or things. It can also be the ability to get what you want (Power, n.d.). Power is a crucial component in society and without it there would be no social structure. However, when taken to the extreme, power can lead to corruption within individuals and society and can be demonstrated in scientific experiments, books, history and film. “Power…

Although there are many reasons for any civil war to occur, the Rwandan Civil War follows in the footsteps of the many civil wars before it. The reasons behind the Rwandan Civil War are traced back to the rationalist explanation of war that states that war occurs due to indivisible issues which are impossible to reach agreement on. In 1990, an ethnic civil war ignited between the Hutus and Tutsis due to uncompromisable issues and long-standing resentment surrounding class division, bigotry,…

poverty are directly linked – “The grim fact is that AIDS is creating a virtual generation of orphans in some African countries such as Uganda”. Uganda also has a long history of military dictatorship and human right abuses made by past leaders – Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979 and then Milton Obote from 1980 to 1986. Uganda today is one of the poorest countries in the world due to these rulers, as proved by the case study “Uganda had a history of disastrous development…

Understanding culture is imperative for the United States Military to succeed in our mission around the world, especially in today’s War on Terror. Soldiers need to understand what culture is and how to win the hearts and minds of the local populous for many reasons, one reason is to guarantee that we are not creating an environment of distrust which could lead to more people opposing out force. According to "Merriam-Webster" (2017), “culture is defined as the integrated pattern of human…

Over the course of mankind, certain populations of peoples have been persecuted and targeted by one person in particular; the Jewish people were persecuted by Hitler, the Cambodians by Pol Pot, the people of Uganda by Idi Amin, and the Kurds by Saddam Hussein. Sadly, all of these are stifled in comparison to the systematic and intentional destruction of the un-countless tribes of Native Americans by Thomas Jefferson. Despite the numerous accolades history has bestowed on a man who was the second…