Idi Amin Became President Of Uganda After He Seized Power Over The Ten Million I

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Term Paper Title	Idi Amin Became President Of Uganda After He Seized Power Over The Ten Million I
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Idi Amin became President of Uganda after he seized power over the ten million inhabitants in
January 25, 1971.  He has done incalculable damage to Ugandas image in the suceeding years.
Uganda, the country and its people have suffered under his tyranny, but the effects spread from
the middle Africa to embrace the continent and the whloe world.  Amin set the pattern of
brutality, including that of torture.
     Idi Amin was born in 1925.  He is a Nubian Kakwa of the Sudanic tribal group.  He was
born in Buganda (and has claimed Buganda parentage), although Buganda is not his tribal
group.  He is a Muslim in a predominantly Christian country.
     Amin's military career began in 1946, when he joined the Uganda army (then the King's
African Rifles [KAR]).  The records of the Ugandan army show that Amin  was trained as a cook.
His first acknowledged act of misconduct was to run away early in his training.  He was
persuaded to return  by fellow soldiers of the Acholi tribe, which he says is " why he loves the
Acholi so much".  Perhaps now the Acholi wished  they had just  let him go.
     The British took over Uganda in the nineteenth century.  The British realized that Uganda
controlled the Suez Canal, which controlled the most direct route to India.  Amin's original
recruitment, and his survival in the army until 1964, can be attributed to the attitude of some
British army officers posted for duty to the Forth Battalion of the KAR in Uganda Amin was an
ideal soldier because of his physical capabilites and his lack of education.  The theory was that
those with the least education made the best troops because they would obey orders more
readily.
     British officers were impressed  with Amins willingness and smartness.  They liked him
so much that they paid no attention to his inability to speak English.  When Amin joined  the KAR
he had already gained notriety as Ugandas heavyweight boxing champion, a title he was to hold
for nine years.  Amin futher impressed the British with his efficiency in disarming the Karamajong
are a group of eight tribes living in the semi-desert of northeast Uganda.  They were nomadic
cattle owners, that raided each other periodically to increase their herds and blood  their spears
to qualify for manhood and marriage.  The only way to stop the raiding was to disarm the
Karamajong, taking away thier eight-feet spears, and buffalo-hide shields.  Amins method was to
threaten the Karamajong with panga's (a particularly lethal  Ugandian machete).  ...

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