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Secret Sex Lives of Tyrants Season 1 Episode 1
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00:08Evil, powerful, uncompromising, ruthless, behind closed doors, a private hell.
00:21Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behavior.
00:26He fantasized about older women.
00:30He puts makeup on.
00:32He had thousands of concubines.
00:34They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.
00:39Fire on designated targets.
00:41The psychological insights of the degenerate and deviant.
00:45He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.
00:48It's typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
00:52Power can change somebody.
01:06We're gonna die.
01:08We're gonna die.
01:09Uganda is very peaceful.
01:11And Uganda does not violate any human rights.
01:15A man was brutal in his murders of thousands of people.
01:20The British are my best friends.
01:23He was this political clown.
01:29Idi Amin.
01:30No fiction writer could imagine this tyrant.
01:34Calling himself the King of Scotland, the Black Hitler.
01:41Nor imagine the monster he became.
01:45He used terror to rule Uganda.
01:50Combining sex and violence in a sadistic regime involving multiple wives and lovers.
01:58Chopping off heads, putting body parts in fridges, even rumors of cannibalism.
02:06I can have sex with you, kill you, injure you, have you as a partner.
02:17These are all merged.
02:18She disappeared.
02:20And her dead body turned up in the trunk of a car, chopped into pieces.
02:28He bestowed himself the title President of Uganda for life, claiming he was a savior to his people.
02:35Some people have requested me to be the life president.
02:40But history remembers him by a very different name.
02:51early 20th century, a nascent, largely agrarian nation stunted and squeezed by imperial greed,
03:00feeding and enriching a distant empire.
03:04So to understand Idi Amin, you need to really go back and look at the history of the country into
03:10which he was born, which pre-war wasn't a country.
03:14It was part of the British Empire.
03:17So while the borders of the country were prescribed by the empire, there were autonomous tribes within that country.
03:27And it wasn't really until after the war that Uganda became its own country.
03:33So it was into this environment, this post-colonial environment that Idi Amin started his career.
03:43It was into this world of hierarchies, of race and rank, that Idi Amin Dada was born sometime around 1925.
03:53Details of Amin's early life are sketchy due to his later fabrications, but what is known is that his mother
04:01was a tribal healer, conjuring witch doctor medicine.
04:06His father, a one-time child soldier recruited by the British Army, had simply vanished.
04:14Amin's relationship with authority was problematic.
04:19Starting with his relationship with his dad, who abandoned him.
04:25So here we have Idi Amin, who comes from an African tribal background.
04:32And this was a time when most of Africa were colonies, but people out in the rural areas really led
04:40very simple tribal lives.
04:43Now, Amin was very poorly educated.
04:45He was barely literate.
04:47And I think a number of people have held doubts about his actual IQ.
04:54Idi Amin was a fine physical specimen, standing well over six feet, but lacked academic ability.
05:02But the British didn't need scholars.
05:05They needed soldiers.
05:07They needed soldiers, thanks to his father's military service, he was able to join the King's African Rifles as a
05:14cook.
05:15But he didn't stay in the kitchen for long.
05:18He showed himself to be a good soldier, a good boxer.
05:25He was a large man, about six foot four, very heavy.
05:31And he had all the marks of a reasonable sergeant, that kind of level.
05:40He wasn't seen to be officer material.
05:43But he proved to be extremely ambitious.
06:13Amin was a fighter, not a baker.
06:45Amin Amin was a fighter later.
06:47Pain, discomfort and fear later became the calling cards for Amin's numerous wives and lovers
06:53But for now, the British uniform gave him training and standing
06:59But though he reveled in the uniform, he resented taking orders from the British
07:04It was a master-servant relationship that Idi Amin mocked and despised throughout his life
07:14If you look at his relationship with England, the constant hyping of himself
07:19I think stems back to the sense of inferiority he had when serving under the British in the army
07:27That awareness that not only were you black, not only were you Ugandan
07:31But you were really, even amongst all of that, somebody from a small tribe
07:37And not somebody of any particular ability
07:41So I think that just went on with him and this crude determination to overcompensate
07:47Many people who emerge out of the colonial sphere, who become leaders in independent African nations
07:55Have a strange relationship with the home country because they would have been raised
07:59They'd have gone to school in classrooms where they would have learned about their home country
08:04Their capital, which was England, and the capital is London
08:07And the schools that they would have learned about were Eton
08:10So their whole moral and imaginative universe is dis-centred from the place
08:20Amin's hybrid background of African tribal culture mixed with English colonial education
08:26Laid the foundations for a leader who could charm with one hand, maim and kill with the other
08:33He drank scotch, for example
08:36But also his whole life was about rejecting certain things as well
08:42A system that made him second class, he rejected
08:46The British is to send some officers to me
08:51They think that they are the boss in Uganda
08:53And they think they were the former Buanamukubas
08:57Who are, they used to make African washing their back bottom
09:05As a young soldier, Amin kept his sex life under wraps
09:09In this period of his life, he was much more interested in power than in passion
09:16I think that for Amin, sex was simply almost a functional thing
09:22You just needed a woman at a particular time
09:25You took her and then you moved on
09:27I think there was absolute no subtlety about it at all
09:30And certainly nothing like a romantic affection
09:34For someone who was unromantic, however
09:37He did like the attention of a wedding
09:40In 1966, Amin, by this time commander of the Ugandan army
09:45Married, not once, but three times within a matter of months
09:52Three wives, Malia Mu, Kay and Nora
09:57Became part of his devoted entourage
10:00Despite them initially not knowing about one another
10:05Soon after they married
10:06Idi Amin's first wife, Malia Mu
10:09Found him in bed with his soon-to-be second wife, Kay
10:13To add insult to injury
10:16Malia Mu only learned he had married her
10:19After hearing about it on state television
10:22Privately, he was dominating and controlling all of his wives and lovers
10:29They weren't his partners
10:32They were prisoners
10:34They were emotionally trapped under his manipulation
10:40And they suffered harm at his hand
10:46It's likely that he also saw that interest in having multiple families
10:54As sort of making up for the fact that he himself came from a broken family
11:00And was abandoned by his own father
11:03It was yet another sign that when it suited him
11:06Amin was entirely happy to cast off the constraints of British traditionalism
11:11Polygamy, it would seem, was the preference for this dictator in waiting
11:251970
11:27Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Obote had a problem
11:30His hand-picked and highly ambitious army commander, Idi Amin
11:35Was gaining popularity
11:38Too much of it
11:39Amin was obsessed with power
11:42He was grandiose in everything that he did
11:45Knowing that Obote was planning to move against him
11:49In January 1971
11:51While Obote was away at a Commonwealth summit in Singapore
11:55Amin struck
11:59Uganda armed forces have taken over power from Obote
12:05And headed to our fellow soldier
12:08Major General Idi Amin
12:12In 1971, Idi Amin staged a military coup with Western support
12:19To set up a populist government
12:22However, the West badly misread him
12:25This man was a showman
12:28But behind it, it showed a real ruthless leader
12:32Not for the first time, the British had badly miscalculated
12:37The entire people of Uganda consider me
12:41I am the conqueror of the British Empire
12:45It is not my intention to be a president
12:48But it is the people who appointed me to be the president of the Republic of Uganda
12:55The same people have requested me to be the life president of Uganda
13:03For what I have done for the country
13:07Military coup and contempt for the British notwithstanding
13:11The self-appointed president was popular
13:16His poolside press conferences delighted the foreign press
13:21And the young women adorning his antics helped create a playboy image
13:26The West was entertained by this seemingly well-meaning clown from the colonies
13:33I do both politics and sports
13:38Amin understood something few strongmen did
13:42He didn't restrict foreign press
13:44He courted them
13:46Amin was very astute
13:51As using publicity in different ways
13:55To try to project his image
13:59Of a leader in Africa
14:02Who was anti-colonial
14:04Anti-British in particular
14:06And of course
14:08This was seen to be as hilarious and ridiculous
14:12By the British
14:13But it captured the attention
14:17Of many of his loyal followers in Uganda
14:22And these kinds of gimmicks
14:25Helped him to have a popular support base
14:30President Amin leaves his imprint on everything
14:33And on such an occasion
14:34It may seem that the element of spectacle
14:36Even of circus
14:37Makes the serious politics almost incidental
14:40But of course it's not so
14:45A game of basketball
14:47Against nervous-looking foreign diplomats
14:50Was a photo opportunity not to be missed
14:52The Chinese deciding they would play
14:55The Russians decided they wouldn't
14:58And though he missed a few
14:59President Amin made no mistake with this one
15:07There was a huge need for acknowledgement and respect
15:11And you can see this in all the titles he gave himself
15:15The medals he wore
15:17And this general attitude to I am the king
15:21In many ways you can say this goes back
15:23To an African tribal view centuries ago
15:27That had long since gone
15:28But he was happy to stick with it
15:30But while the world applauded
15:33Behind closed doors
15:35Military control had quickly turned
15:37Into domestic oppression of ethnic minorities
15:40And sexual coercion
15:43To satisfy his libido
15:45He began surrounding himself
15:47With beauty queens
15:49Dancers
15:50And teenage girls
15:51Young vulnerable women
15:54Who had little control over their fate
15:56He used sexual relations
16:02As a means of control
16:06He used rape as a means of control
16:10He used women
16:14As a symbol of his own power
16:19Having sex with women
16:21Became for him
16:22Something that demonstrated his power
16:25Power over people's lives
16:28Power to kill them
16:30Power to maim them
16:32Power to torture them
16:34Power to rape them
16:35Power to have sex with them
16:37I think these are very much connected
16:39And it gave the same kind of joy
16:43To Idi Amin
16:45Public charm
16:47Private domination
16:49As he played to the cameras
16:51Little did the world suspect
16:53What misery Dada the dictator
16:55Was about to unleash on Uganda
16:58I think I will now issue my statements
17:01August 1972
17:03Idi Amin makes a declaration
17:07That will send shockwaves
17:09Through Uganda
17:10And England
17:11The decision of my government
17:14To ask the British government
17:17To take over responsibility
17:20For the British citizens
17:23Of Asian origin
17:27Living in Uganda
17:29Who were sabotaging
17:31The economy of this country
17:34Uganda will be independent
17:36After this
17:37My decision
17:39After
17:40I want to see that
17:41The whole Kampala street
17:43Is not full of Indians
17:47One of the first things he did
17:49As part of his Uganda
17:50For the Ugandans rhetoric
17:51Was to expel
17:53All of the Asians
17:54From the country
17:55Now these Asians
17:57Were British subjects
17:58And this became
17:59A huge diplomatic crisis
18:01For Britain
18:01As he basically said
18:03They're your problem now
18:05You need to take them
18:06And you need to deal with them
18:09Amin gave them 90 days
18:11To leave
18:12Or face imprisonment
18:13Or worse
18:15Do you want to leave?
18:17We have to leave
18:18We don't want to leave
18:19We have to leave it
18:19Do you think you're going to be
18:22Alright and safe
18:23At the end of 90 days
18:24In another country?
18:26You know that's a problem
18:29No it's a problem
18:30His expelling
18:32Of around 50,000
18:34South Asians
18:35From Uganda
18:36Was a reflection
18:37Of the position
18:38That South Asians
18:40Had taken
18:41In Ugandan colony
18:43Which is that
18:43They dominated
18:44The kind of
18:45Urban
18:46Professional
18:47Sphere
18:48And that was
18:49A position
18:50That had been
18:51Supported by the
18:52British state
18:52So that was not
18:53Something that happened
18:54Kind of coincidentally
18:56Or accidentally
18:58Most of Uganda's
19:00Asian population
19:01Around 50,000 people
19:03Were third generation
19:04Citizens
19:05Many had been born
19:08In the country
19:08They ran hospitals
19:10Schools
19:11Import export businesses
19:13And banks
19:15But now
19:17At a moment's notice
19:18They were being ordered
19:20To leave their homes
19:21And their livelihoods
19:23You've said you wanted
19:24To teach Britain
19:25A lesson, President
19:26Why is that?
19:27And that is now
19:28Lesson I'm teaching
19:29The British
19:30I am teaching now
19:32The lesson
19:32Because I am correcting
19:34Them from the mistake
19:35They had made
19:35If they had think
19:37Before earlier
19:38That there are
19:39Africans here
19:40Who can even
19:42Work
19:42Under building
19:44The railway
19:44With the instruction
19:46Given to them
19:47By the British
19:48This problem
19:49Will not happen
19:50I will expel them
19:52I will cut our ties
19:54With Britain
19:54I will make us
19:56Proud to be Ugandans
19:58And all of that
19:59But what do you see
20:00In Africa
20:01Time and time again?
20:04African nationalism
20:05Takes over
20:06And it descends
20:08Into tribalism
20:09And that really
20:10Was the basis
20:12For the way
20:13Amin operated
20:14London for Londoners
20:17Scotland for Scottish
20:19It is only
20:21Transferring the economy
20:22To the hands
20:24Of Ugandans
20:25For anyone
20:26Who dared to defy
20:28Amin
20:28And stay in the country
20:30The threat
20:31Was clear
20:32What will happen
20:33To these people
20:33If they don't go
20:35By the time
20:35They leave
20:36I think
20:37They will be sitting
20:38Like they are sitting
20:39On the fire
20:40I will tell you this
20:41You just wait
20:42After three months
20:43What will you do to them?
20:44Okay
20:45You will see
20:57They left with the clothes
20:59On their backs
21:00Factories were handed
21:02To military cronies
21:03Shops looted
21:06Banks emptied
21:09And with the departure
21:10Of the Asian community
21:12Uganda's once healthy
21:14Economy and social infrastructure
21:16Began to collapse
21:17So
21:19Effectively
21:20They exiled
21:22All their professionals
21:23A lot of doctors
21:24A lot of businessmen
21:25That was devastating
21:27To the state
21:28And to the population
21:29The international community
21:32Condemned what became
21:34Known as
21:34Departide
21:36Amin replied
21:38In typically
21:39Bizarre fashion
21:40I have
21:41Written
21:43A letter
21:45To
21:45Hamadist
21:46The Queen
21:48I thank
21:50Hamadist
21:51The Queen
21:51Very much
21:53For the
21:54Letter
21:55He has
21:57Delivered
21:59Written
22:00To me
22:01Even though
22:02He was becoming
22:03Emboldened
22:04By his absolute
22:05Power
22:05And had declared
22:06His nation
22:07Independent
22:07Expelling
22:09Several of
22:09Its loyal
22:10Citizens
22:11Amin began
22:12To fantasize
22:13About a larger
22:15Royal role
22:15Partly
22:16It seems
22:17Out of his
22:18Personal admiration
22:19For Queen
22:20Elizabeth
22:20The Second
22:21He wrote
22:23He wrote letters
22:23To Queen
22:24Elizabeth
22:25Of England
22:25Not just once
22:26But dozens
22:27Of times
22:28Declaring his
22:29Undying love
22:30Offering to
22:31Marry her
22:32And even
22:33That her next
22:34Baby by him
22:35Presumably
22:35Could be delivered
22:36By his doctors
22:37In Uganda
22:38All really puzzling
22:41Was he
22:41Mocking her
22:42Was he
22:43That delusional
22:45That he thought
22:45This could be a reality
22:46His grasp on reality
22:49Was certainly
22:50Starting to slip
22:52Faced by
22:53Amin's
22:54Increasingly
22:54Unpredictable
22:55Rhetoric
22:56And behaviour
22:57The British
22:58High Commissioner
22:59To Uganda
22:59Didn't know
23:00Where to look
23:01Have you asked
23:02The British
23:02To take them
23:03Away sir
23:05Yes it is
23:06The British
23:06High Commissioner
23:07Is here
23:07His responsibility
23:09I have told him
23:10The position
23:11Of my government
23:11On that question
23:12On the rate
23:13Of admission
23:14Has clearly
23:15Got to be
23:16Reserved
23:16And I have now
23:17Got to
23:18Report
23:19What you have
23:20Decided
23:21And seek
23:22Further instruction
23:23As he laughed
23:25At the discomfort
23:26Of the British
23:26High Commissioner
23:27There was no
23:28Telling what
23:29This increasingly
23:30Erratic
23:30Dictator's
23:31Next move
23:32Would be
23:39By the mid 1970s
23:41No one was safe
23:42From Idi Amin's
23:44Chaos
23:45Uganda's
23:46President for life
23:47Announced on
23:48National radio
23:49That he had
23:49Divorced
23:50Three of his
23:51Five wives
23:53Not for infidelity
23:54Nor irreconcilable
23:56Differences
23:56The wives
23:58Had simply
23:59Held a party
23:59Without asking
24:01For permission
24:01From Dada
24:02He didn't grieve
24:04Their departure
24:05He had plenty
24:06More wives
24:07To indulge him
24:08He had five
24:10Official wives
24:11And ten or more
24:13Unofficial wives
24:14He also had between
24:16Between 40 and 60
24:17Children
24:18By all of these wives
24:20So he had amassed
24:22An extreme progeny
24:24Beneath him
24:26As a result
24:27Of these numerous
24:28Sexual escapades
24:30That he had
24:31His numerous children
24:34Could be reflective
24:36Of Idi Amin's
24:38Desire to exercise
24:40His power
24:41To spread his seed
24:42As far as it can go
24:43And also reflective
24:47Of his sexual dominance
24:48His masculinity
24:50His virility
24:51His ability
24:52To procreate
24:53All entwined
24:55With creating
24:56Sort of his own
24:57Little personal army
24:58Of people
24:59That ultimately
25:00He could control
25:00As well
25:02By 1973
25:04The tone of the regime
25:06Had changed
25:07Amin's confidence
25:09Hardened into suspicion
25:11He began replacing
25:13Ministers regularly
25:14Continuing his prolific
25:16And brutal purge
25:17Of his predecessor's
25:18Allies
25:18And his bodyguards
25:20Were rotated
25:21Weakly
25:22Even senior military
25:24Officers weren't safe
25:25As Amin sought
25:26To shore up
25:27His power base
25:28Exiling and executing
25:30Thousands
25:34As bombastic
25:36As he was
25:36In public
25:37Or in front
25:38Of the cameras
25:38Behind the scenes
25:40He was beginning
25:41To unravel
25:42He was paranoid
25:44And stories
25:45Of his brutality
25:46Were starting
25:47To come out
25:48As well
25:49Advisors
25:50Would go into meetings
25:51And never come out
25:53Again
25:53There were rumours
25:54Of him feeding
25:55Body parts
25:56To crocodiles
25:57And even having
25:59Parts of his
26:00Victims body
26:00Stored in freezers
26:02This was a man
26:03Who was really
26:04Starting to fall apart
26:05If it has been
26:08Something bad
26:09Critical of me
26:10My people
26:12Will not be
26:13Happy as now
26:14Do you understand?
26:16Do you understand
26:18What I say?
26:19His need to control
26:21Wasn't rooted
26:22In confidence
26:23It stemmed
26:24From paranoia
26:25And insecurity
26:26At his humble origins
26:28And previous servitude
26:30To the British
26:30Idi Amin's insecurity
26:35Manifested itself
26:37In different ways
26:38One of those ways
26:41Was to have
26:43Those who were
26:45Supposed to be in power
26:46Humiliated
26:48In one incident
26:50He had four white men
26:53Carry him in
26:54As if he was on a throne
26:56And they were slaves
26:58The symbolism
26:59Is very clear
27:00I'm in charge
27:01I'm a black man
27:03Who's in charge
27:04The previous
27:05Colonial situation
27:06In which I was raised
27:07Has been reversed
27:08Upended
27:08I'm a powerful black man
27:11And these white men
27:12Now have to carry me
27:13In on a pelican
27:14That's
27:14That's a very
27:15Arresting image
27:17And probably one
27:18That those diplomats
27:20Engaged in
27:21With a certain amount
27:22Of trepidation
27:24Other ways
27:26In which he
27:26Humiliated people
27:28Was even more bizarre
27:30Such as
27:32Keeping parts
27:33Of their bodies
27:34In his fridge
27:37Such as
27:38Not only torturing them
27:40But dismembering them
27:42I think these
27:44Are all manifestations
27:45Of his need
27:46To show control
27:48And power
27:49Over other people
27:52Idi Amin
27:53Surrounded himself
27:55With yes men
27:55And yes women
27:57Or at least women
27:58Who wouldn't dare
27:59Say no
28:00For fear of the consequences
28:03And all of these people
28:05He treated
28:05As his private chattels
28:07To either promote
28:08Or dispose of
28:09On a whim
28:11Some months
28:13After Idi Amin
28:14Announced his divorce
28:15From second wife
28:16Kay Adroa
28:17Her dismembered body
28:19Was found in the trunk
28:20Of a car
28:21The official line
28:23Was that she had died
28:24During the abortion
28:25Of a child
28:26Who was not
28:27Idi's
28:28The doctor
28:29Who performed
28:30The abortion
28:31Allegedly
28:32Took his own life
28:34Her dead body
28:36Turned up
28:37In the trunk
28:37Of a car
28:38Chopped
28:39Into pieces
28:40But it gets worse
28:42Because after her body
28:45Was found
28:46Amin ordered
28:47His chief medical officer
28:49To stitch her body
28:50Back together
28:51And then placed
28:53On the steps
28:54Of the hospital
28:55As a symbol
28:57Of this
28:59Don't cross me
29:00Or this might happen
29:01To you
29:01A visible indicator
29:03Of his violence
29:04Of his power
29:06Of his sadistic
29:08And bizarre tendencies
29:10Without even
29:11Breaking a sweat
29:12Idi Amin Dada
29:14Moved on to his
29:15Next sexual trophy
29:1619 year old
29:18Go-go dancer
29:19Sarah Kayalaba
29:20Became wife
29:21Number four
29:22With Palestinian
29:24Leader
29:25Yasser Arafat
29:26Amin's new
29:27Best friend
29:28As best man
29:29Idi had abducted
29:31Sarah from another man
29:33Who then
29:34Mysteriously
29:35Disappeared
29:36Ominously
29:37Idi's teen bride
29:39Came to be known
29:40As suicide
29:41Sarah
29:43Idi Amin's
29:45Viciousness
29:46Was different
29:47Than that of other
29:48Dictators at the time
29:50Because it was personal
29:51Whether it's the use
29:52Of cannibalism
29:53Among the Kakua tribes
29:55In the north
29:55Or feeding people
29:57To crocodiles
29:58Although he's not
29:58The only dictator
30:00To be alleged
30:00To have fed people
30:01To crocodiles
30:03And people
30:04Understood it
30:05In that way
30:06The keeping of body
30:06Parts to be
30:07Kind of fetishization
30:09There's enough
30:10Evidence to suggest
30:11That these things
30:12Did happen
30:16No one dared
30:17To challenge
30:18Amin's increasingly
30:19Violent rule
30:20His early clowning
30:22For the cameras
30:23Was replaced
30:24By a more somber
30:25And menacing demeanor
30:27As he even turned
30:29His prisoners
30:30On each other
30:31For sport
30:32His center of operations
30:34Was his so-called
30:34Command post
30:35Here inside
30:37Heavily barred cells
30:38Prisoners were forced
30:39To smash each other's
30:41Heads with coal hammers
30:42Their cell blocks
30:43Just four square
30:44Concrete block houses
30:46No beds or chairs
30:48Absurd signs
30:49Warned those
30:50Who worked here
30:51To keep secrets guarded
30:52The bodies of tortured
30:54Victims still lie nearby
30:56At Amin's dreaded
30:57State research center
30:59He was nicknamed
31:01The butcher of Uganda
31:02He relished in the delight
31:06Of not just hurting people
31:08But coming up with
31:10Creative ways
31:11To mutilate bodies
31:14This is a very
31:17Disturbed person
31:22Bodies just appeared
31:23From nowhere
31:24In Lake Victoria
31:26According to engineers
31:28At hydro plants
31:29Up to 40 corpses
31:31A day
31:32Were pulled from the water
31:33The murder rate
31:35Was extortionate
31:37It was just so high
31:38The best estimates
31:39Were around
31:40300,000 people
31:42Murdered
31:42And their bodies
31:44Were just dumped
31:44They were thrown
31:46Into the rivers
31:47Thrown into Lake Victoria
31:49Where apparently
31:50Some of them
31:50Even clogged up turbines
31:52The rivers
31:53Literally run red
31:54With blood
31:54And this wasn't
31:56In times of war
31:57This was
31:58In peacetime
32:00That same year
32:01His former chief of staff
32:03Whom he suspected
32:04Of plotting
32:04To replace him
32:05Was beaten to death
32:07With rifle butts
32:10Amin had his head
32:12Delivered to his residence
32:14And kept it
32:15In a freezer
32:17He once brought it
32:18To a dinner party
32:19This was ritualised terror
32:24To almost anyone
32:26Amin's behaviour
32:29Was so extreme
32:30As to be
32:31Almost impossible
32:32To comprehend
32:33Chopping off heads
32:35Putting body parts
32:37In fridges
32:38Even rumours
32:39Of cannibalism
32:41In some way
32:42This was an
32:43Atavistic form
32:44Of tribalism
32:45But I think
32:46It all goes back
32:47To the fact
32:47That he was
32:49A terribly limited man
32:51With a terribly limited intellect
32:53And his violence
32:55And his rage
32:56Simply had no stabilisers
33:00But for Idi Amin
33:01The start of his
33:03Inevitable downfall
33:04Came from an
33:05Unexpected source
33:07A country which
33:09Had once supported him
33:10But had now seen
33:11His true colours
33:12In 1976
33:15An Air France flight
33:16From Tel Aviv
33:17To Paris
33:17Was stormed
33:19By four hijackers
33:20First
33:21It looked like
33:21A classic terrorist operation
33:23But this
33:24Was very different
33:33June 27
33:341976
33:35An Air France flight
33:38From Tel Aviv
33:39To Paris
33:39Is hijacked
33:41By four militants
33:42Two Palestinian
33:43Two German
33:44They divert the plane
33:46With its 248
33:48Passengers and crew
33:49To Entebbe airport
33:51Uganda
33:51We are going
33:54To execute
33:55All the passengers
33:58Amin steps in
34:00Welcomes the hijackers
34:02And offers himself
34:03As a negotiator
34:06Amin was looking
34:07For a way
34:08To assert himself
34:09Globally
34:09He thought
34:10He was an important
34:11Global figure
34:11And Entebbe
34:13In taking the side
34:15Of the Palestinian
34:16Nationalists
34:18And the Palestinian terrorists
34:19And that allowed him
34:20To
34:20Or he believed
34:22Allowed him
34:23A certain amount
34:23Of leverage
34:24Over
34:25Western government
34:27Over the next six days
34:29Amin demonstrates
34:30His complete lack
34:32Of understanding
34:32Of international diplomacy
34:34By spewing out
34:36A torrent
34:37Of anti-Semitic bile
34:38Via the media
34:39In Britain
34:41The whole economy
34:43It has been controlled
34:44By Britain
34:45Except there are
34:47Very many Jews
34:48Who are also
34:49Controlling your economy
34:50In Britain
34:51I think you know this
34:53And as well
34:54As in the United States
34:55Of America
34:56The whole economy
34:58There is controlled
34:59By Jews
35:00By siding
35:02With the hostage
35:03Taking terrorists
35:04Idi Amin
35:05Had now made
35:06An enemy
35:07Of the West
35:10Seven days
35:11Into the siege
35:12In a remarkable
35:14Covert mission
35:15Codenamed
35:15Operation Thunderbolt
35:17Special commandos
35:19Flew from Israel
35:20And swooped on
35:21Entebbe
35:22Under cloak of darkness
35:26The terrorists
35:27Were killed
35:28The hostages
35:29Rescued
35:29From right
35:30Under Amin's nose
35:32The Entebbe
35:34Affair ends
35:35With a daring raid
35:37The Israelis
35:38Launch a raid
35:39Into Uganda
35:40Seemingly
35:41Impossibly
35:42I don't think
35:43Anyone would have
35:44Imagined this was possible
35:47And when the
35:48Israeli hostages
35:49Were liberated
35:51By their own forces
35:52It was a bit
35:53Of an embarrassment
35:54For him
35:55But his relationship
35:57With the West
35:57Was now
35:58Well and truly
35:59Fractured
36:00And broken
36:01There was
36:02No credence
36:03For him anymore
36:07The United Kingdom
36:09Still reeling
36:10From the massive
36:11Intake of
36:12Expelled
36:12Asian refugees
36:13From Uganda
36:14Had also
36:15Had enough
36:16Of Amin's
36:17Antics
36:18All ties
36:19Between the two
36:20Nations
36:20Were severed
36:21Definitely
36:23After Entebbe
36:24His reputation
36:26Among the West
36:27Absolutely
36:27Collapses
36:28And then
36:29There's no
36:30There's no
36:31Not very much
36:32Support for him
36:33From the global
36:34West
36:34After that point
36:36Yet in press
36:37Conferences
36:38Amin still
36:39Claimed friendship
36:40With Britain
36:41With Britain
36:42The British
36:42Are my best
36:43Friends
36:46And your best
36:48Friend
36:48Is the friend
36:50Who tells you
36:51Your mistake
36:53The madness
36:54Continued
36:55After Britain
36:57Cut off Uganda
36:58Idi Amin
36:59Simply bestowed
37:00More grandiose
37:01Titles
37:01On himself
37:02Including
37:03CBE
37:05Conqueror
37:06Of the British Empire
37:07His Excellency
37:09His Excellency
37:10President for Life
37:11Field Marsha
37:12Ahoji
37:12Dr Idi Amin
37:13Dada
37:14VC
37:14DSO
37:15MC
37:16Lord of all
37:17The beasts
37:18Of the earth
37:18And fishes
37:19Of the sea
37:21And then
37:22Without any
37:23Irony
37:24The last king
37:26Of Scotland
37:27His bearing
37:29Just seemed to get
37:30More and more
37:31Ridiculous
37:32Turning up for TV
37:32Interviews
37:33In pyjamas
37:34And making
37:35The rather bold
37:36And somewhat
37:37Daft claim
37:38That he was
37:39The last king
37:39Of Scotland
37:41And as his
37:42Madness grew
37:43So did his
37:45Ever expanding
37:46Family
37:46It's conservatively
37:48Estimated
37:49That he fathered
37:50As many
37:50As 60 children
37:52To Idi Amin
37:54Love and control
37:55Were one and the same
37:56Even the diplomats
37:58Were left waiting
37:59Uncomfortably
37:59For the president
38:00To arrive
38:01With only a smile
38:02From Uganda's
38:03Roving ambassador
38:04The former
38:04Princess Elizabeth
38:05Of Toro
38:06To brighten
38:06What must have been
38:07For them
38:07A painful situation
38:09Princess Elizabeth
38:11Of Toro
38:11Was a talented
38:12Young lawyer
38:13Who resisted
38:14Idi Amin's
38:15Advances
38:17She managed
38:18To flee Uganda
38:19Before Amin
38:20Could harm her
38:21But she still
38:22Paid a price
38:23For not sleeping
38:24With her president
38:25She escaped
38:27Then her brother
38:28Was murdered
38:30In her memoirs
38:31She wrote
38:32That Amin
38:32Taunted
38:33Her with the words
38:34You missed your chance
38:36You could have
38:38Been my queen
38:40It's here that
38:41At the deeper level
38:44The joy of sex
38:47And the joy of violence
38:49Become one
38:51And it comes through
38:53The control and power
38:55Over others
38:57That is I can have
38:59That is I can have
39:01Sex with you
39:01Kill you
39:04Injure you
39:07Have you
39:08As a partner
39:09These are all
39:10Merged
39:11Meanwhile
39:13Meanwhile
39:14As Armin retreated into self-aggrandizement and sexual conquest,
39:18Uganda's economy was in freefall.
39:22Hospitals were empty.
39:24Food prices had tripled.
39:27Foreign journalists were expelled.
39:31Inside Armin's compound, rooms filled with dismembered bodies,
39:36freezers holding human remains, heads kept as trophies.
39:41He turned Entebbe's statehouse, built grandly by the British,
39:45into something of a drunk's paradise,
39:47with parties in the gardens or by the swimming pool.
39:53By early 1979, Armin's hold on power was rotting from the inside out.
40:00And that's the moment the tyrant decided he had no choice but to go to war.
40:06With his people and his country starting to turn against him,
40:10there was hunger and unemployment and financial difficulties.
40:16Armin engaged the age-old tactic of diverting attention by starting a war.
40:22So he invaded Tanzania.
40:30When he invades Tanzania is absolutely to shore up his domestic legitimacy.
40:37And that's a tool that dictators often use.
40:40If your domestic prestige seems low,
40:43if you win a war, you might bolster your reputation.
40:47And certainly that aligns with his desire to have politics centered around him.
40:52But his efforts are ultimately a failure.
40:59In April 1979,
41:02Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles reached Kampala.
41:07Armin was nowhere to be found.
41:09His invasion of Tanzania was his final mistake.
41:13He tried to invade Tanzania,
41:15and he was repulsed by a combination of the Tanzanian armed forces
41:19and Ugandan exiles in Tanzania from tribes that he'd persecuted.
41:23They repulsed them.
41:25They move into Uganda where they're able to seize the capital.
41:28And that's what causes the fall of Amin and his flight into exile.
41:33There would be no final speech,
41:36no last stand.
41:41April 11, 1979.
41:44The streets of Kampala echo with relief.
41:49Idi Amin has fled.
41:51First, to Libya.
41:53Welcomed by Colonel Gaddafi,
41:56a fellow tyrant whose public flamboyance
41:58also concealed a private brutality and sexual sadism.
42:04Then, on to Saudi Arabia,
42:06where he would live out the rest of his life in quiet exile
42:11with just his last two wives,
42:14Suicide Sarah and Mama Archimaru to comfort him.
42:19He does disappear in the sense that he leaves.
42:23He flees, understanding quite rightly that his time is up,
42:27and that was preferable to him, evidently, to death.
42:31In his wake,
42:33the silent screams of 300,000 victims,
42:38prisons, torture chambers,
42:40a broken economy.
42:43Swarms of people carrying away huge bags of sugar
42:46from a warehouse in downtown Kampala.
42:49Here, 300,000 sacks were stored by Amin
42:52whilst sugar ceased to be available on the streets.
42:55Uganda's nightmare wasn't over,
42:58but its architect had disappeared.
43:03Once safely out of harm's way,
43:06one of his personal physicians would reveal
43:08that he had treated the dictator
43:10with conditions ranging from hypomania,
43:13schizophrenia and tertiary syphilis.
43:19In the end, Amin's mindlessness and sybaritic lifestyle
43:24did the job for him.
43:26He died from kidney failure in July 2003.
43:33What you see throughout history with tyrants
43:36and, in the modern term, dictators
43:39is always the same thing, unchallenged.
43:43And how, what does this mean?
43:45They either don't allow anyone to talk to them
43:48or they surround themselves with yes men.
43:52And that means they never have any real idea
43:55of what is going on.
43:59Idi Amin was a personally
44:01and intellectually limited person
44:04who through opportunism, craftiness and manipulation
44:08became a terrible dictator
44:11and always lacked the internal ability
44:14to monitor what he was doing
44:15and brought about his own downfall inevitably.
44:39Abin, what do you think what is going on?
44:53You're listening to Jesus Christ Brothers
44:57and healing, but you're listening to Jesus Christ Brothers
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