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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.
01:08Uganda is very peaceful and Uganda does not violate any human rights.
01:15Amin was brutal in his murders of thousands of people.
01:21The British are my best friends.
01:24He was this political clown.
01:29Idi Amin.
01:31No 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.
02:05I can have sex with you, kill you, injure you.
02:13I can have you as a partner.
02:17These are all merged.
02:18She disappeared and 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.
02:52Early 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.
03:17So 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, he 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.
05:08Thanks to his father's military service, he was able to join the King's African Rifles as a cook.
05:14But he didn't stay in the kitchen for long.
05:18He showed himself to be a good soldier, a good boxer, he was an athlete, he was a large man,
05:27about six foot four, very heavy.
05:30And he had all the marks of a reasonable sergeant, that kind of level.
05:40He wasn't seen to be officer material, but he proved to be extremely ambitious.
05:49Amin was a fighter, not a baker.
05:52The man who would one day be accused of cannibalism developed a thirst for blood early.
05:58During the infamous Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, which had started in 1952,
06:05Amin led brutal raids in the name of British colonialism, earning a reputation for savagery.
06:13Idi Amin was commended by his officers as being loyal and brutal.
06:19And he played a big part in the defeat of the Mau Mau's in Kenya, as part of the British
06:26Army.
06:27He actively took part in the torture of prisoners and seemed to revel in it.
06:33It's genital mutilation, psychological pain, forced starvation.
06:39It seemed that his career was built on pain and discomfort and fear.
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 revelled in the uniform, he resented taking orders from the British.
07:05It 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, but you were really, even amongst all
07:34of that,
07:35somebody from a small tribe and 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, their capital,
08:05which 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 in which they grew up
08:16and is placed somewhere else.
08:20Amin's hybrid background of African tribal culture mixed with English colonial education laid the foundations
08:27for a leader who could charm with one hand, maim and kill with the other.
08:33He drank scotch, for example, but also his whole life was about rejecting certain things as well,
08:42a system that made him second class, he rejected.
09:05As a young soldier, Amin kept his sex life under wraps.
09:10In 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, he did like the attention of a wedding.
09:40In 1966, Amin, by this time commander of the Ugandan army, married, not once, but three times within a matter
09:50of months.
09:52Three wives, Malya Mu, Kay and Nora, became part of his devoted entourage, despite them initially not knowing about one
10:03another.
10:05Soon after they married, Idi Amin's first wife, Malya Mu, found him in bed with his soon-to-be second
10:12wife, Kay.
10:13To add insult to injury, Malya Mu only learned he had married her after hearing about it on state television.
10:22Privately, he was dominating and controlling all of his wives and lovers.
10:30They weren't his partners.
10:32They were prisoners.
10:34They were emotionally trapped under his manipulation and they suffered harm at his hand.
10:46It's likely that he also saw that interest in having multiple families as sort of making up for the fact
10:57that he himself came from a broken family and was abandoned by his own father.
11:03It was yet another sign that when it suited him, Amin was entirely happy to cast off the constraints of
11:10British traditionalism.
11:11Polygamy, it would seem, was the preference for this dictator in waiting.
11:261970, Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Obote had a problem.
11:31His hand-picked and highly ambitious army commander, Idi Amin, was gaining popularity.
11:38Too much of it.
11:40Amin was obsessed with power.
11:42He was grandiose in everything that he did.
11:46Knowing that Obote was planning to move against him, in January 1971, while Obote was away at a Commonwealth summit
11:55in Singapore, Amin struck.
11:59Uganda armed forces have taken over power from Obote and headed to our fellow soldier, Major General Idi Amin Dada.
12:11In 1971, Idi Amin staged a military coup with Western support to set up a populist government.
12:23However, the West badly misread him.
12:25This man was a showman, but 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, I am the conqueror of the British Empire.
12:45It is not my intention to be a president, but it is the people who appointed me to be the
12:53president of the Republic of Uganda.
12:56The same people have requested me to be the life president of Uganda for what I have done for the
13:07country.
13:07Military coup and contempt for the British notwithstanding, the self-appointed president was popular.
13:15You take care of me.
13:16His poolside press conferences delighted the foreign press.
13:21And the young women adorning his antics helped create a playboy image.
13:27The 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, he courted them.
13:46Amin was very astute as using publicity in different ways to try to project his image of a leader in
14:01Africa
14:02who was anti-colonial, anti-British in particular.
14:07And, of course, this was seen to be as hilarious and ridiculous by the British.
14:13But it captured the attention of many of his loyal followers in Uganda.
14:22And these kinds of gimmicks helped him to have a popular support base.
14:30President Amin leaves his imprint on everything.
14:33And on such an occasion, it may seem that the element of spectacle, even of circus, makes the serious politics
14:39almost incidental.
14:40But, of course, it's not so.
14:45A game of basketball against nervous-looking foreign diplomats was a photo opportunity not to be missed.
14:53The Chinese deciding they would play, the Russians decided they wouldn't.
14:58And though he missed a few, President Amin made no mistake with this one.
15:07There was a huge need for acknowledgement and respect.
15:12And you can see this in all the titles he gave himself, the medals he wore, and this general attitude
15:19to, I am the king.
15:21In many ways, you can say this goes back to an African tribal view centuries ago that had long since
15:27gone, but he was happy to stick with it.
15:30But while the world applauded, behind closed doors, military control had quickly turned into domestic oppression of ethnic minorities and
15:41sexual coercion.
15:43To satisfy his libido, he began surrounding himself with beauty queens, dancers, and teenage girls.
15:52Young, vulnerable women who had little control over their fate.
15:56He used sexual relations as a means of control.
16:07He used rape as a means of control.
16:11He used women as a symbol of his own power.
16:19Having sex with women became, for him, something that demonstrated his power.
16:26Power over people's lives, power to kill them, power to maim them, power to torture them, power to rape them,
16:35power to have sex with them.
16:37I think these are very much connected, and it gave the same kind of joy to Idi Amin.
16:45Public charm, private domination.
16:49As he played to the cameras, little did the world suspect what misery Dada the dictator was about to unleash
16:57on Uganda.
16:58I think I will now issue my statement.
17:02August 1972.
17:05Idi Amin makes a declaration that will send shockwaves through Uganda and England.
17:11The decision of my government to ask the British government to take over responsibility for the British citizens of Asian
17:25origin living in Uganda, who were sabotaging the economy of this country.
17:34Uganda will be independent after this, my decision, after I want to see that the whole Kampala Street is not
17:44full of Indians.
17:47One of the first things he did as part of his Uganda for the Ugandans rhetoric was to expel all
17:53of the Asians from the country.
17:55Now, these Asians were British subjects, and this became a huge diplomatic crisis for Britain, as he basically said, they're
18:04your problem now.
18:05You need to take them and you need to deal with them.
18:09Amin gave them 90 days to leave or face imprisonment or 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.
18:20Do you think you're going to be alright and safe at the end of 90 days in another country?
18:26No, it's a problem.
18:30His expelling of around 50,000 South Asians from Uganda was a reflection of the position that South Asians had
18:40taken in Ugandan colony,
18:43which is that they dominated the kind of urban, professional sphere.
18:48And that was a position that had been supported by the British state.
18:52So that was not something that happened kind of coincidentally or accidentally.
18:58Most of Uganda's Asian population, around 50,000 people, were third generation citizens.
19:06Many had been born in the country.
19:09They ran hospitals, schools, import-export businesses and banks.
19:16But now, at a moment's notice, they were being ordered to leave their homes and their livelihoods.
19:23You said you wanted to teach Britain a lesson, President. Why is that?
19:27And that is now a lesson I'm teaching the British.
19:30I am teaching now the lesson because I am correcting them from the mistake they had made.
19:36If they had think before earlier that there are Africans here who can even work under building the railway with
19:45the instruction given to them by the British, this problem will not happen.
19:50I will expel them. I will cut our ties with Britain. I will make us proud to be Ugandan and
19:59all of that.
19:59But what do you see in Africa time and time again?
20:04African nationalism takes over and it descends into tribalism.
20:09And that really was the basis for the way Amin operated.
20:15London for Londoners. Scotland for Scottish.
20:19It is only transferring the economy to the hands of Ugandans.
20:25For anyone who dared to defy Amin and stay in the country, the threat was clear.
20:32What will happen to these people if they don't go by the time they...
20:36I think they will be sitting like they are sitting on the fire. I will tell you this. You just
20:42wait after three months.
20:43What will you do to them?
20:44OK, you will see it.
20:46OK, you will see it.
20:49Father's passport, father's passport and your British nationality document.
20:57They left with the clothes on their backs. Factories were handed to military cronies. Shops looted.
21:06Banks emptied.
21:09And with the departure of the Asian community, Uganda's once healthy economy and social infrastructure began to collapse.
21:19So, effectively, they exiled all their professionals, a lot of doctors, a lot of businessmen.
21:26That was devastating to the state and to the population.
21:30The international community condemned what became known as Departide.
21:36Amin replied, in typically bizarre fashion.
21:40I have written a letter to Hamadist the Queen.
21:48I thank Hamadist the Queen very much for the letter he has delivered, written to me.
22:01Even though he was becoming emboldened by his absolute power and had declared his nation independent, expelling several of its
22:10loyal citizens, Amin began to fantasize about a larger royal role.
22:16Partly, it seems, out of his personal admiration for Queen Elizabeth II.
22:22He wrote letters to Queen Elizabeth of England, not just once, but dozens of times, declaring his undying love, offering
22:31to marry her, and even that her next baby by him, presumably, could be delivered by his doctors in Uganda.
22:38All really puzzling. Was he mocking her? Was he that delusional that he thought this could be a reality? His
22:48grasp on reality was certainly starting to slip.
22:52Faced by Amin's increasingly unpredictable rhetoric and behavior, the British High Commissioner to Uganda didn't know where to look.
23:01Have you asked the British to take them away, sir?
23:05Yes, it is the British High Commissioner to hear his responsibility. I have told him.
23:10The position of my government on that question, on the rate of admission, has clearly got to be reserved.
23:16And I have now got to report what you have decided and seek further instruction.
23:23As he laughed at the discomfort of the British High Commissioner, there was no telling what this increasingly erratic dictator's
23:31next move would be.
23:39By the mid-1970s, no one was safe from Idi Amin's chaos.
23:45Uganda's president for life announced on national radio that he had divorced three of his five wives.
23:53Not for infidelity nor irreconcilable differences, the wives had simply held a party without asking for permission from Dada.
24:03He didn't grieve their departure. He had plenty more wives to indulge him.
24:08He had five official wives and ten or more unofficial wives.
24:14He also had between 40 and 60 children by all of these wives.
24:20So he had amassed an extreme progeny beneath him as a result of these numerous sexual escapades that he had.
24:32His numerous children could be reflective of Idi Amin's desire to exercise his power, to spread his seed as far
24:43as it can go.
24:44And also reflective of his sexual dominance, his masculinity, his virility, his ability to procreate,
24:54all entwined with creating sort of his own little personal army of people that ultimately he could control as well.
25:02By 1973, the tone of the regime had changed.
25:08Amin's confidence hardened into suspicion.
25:11He began replacing ministers regularly, continuing his prolific and brutal purge of his predecessor's allies,
25:19and his bodyguards were rotated weakly.
25:22Even senior military officers weren't safe, as Amin sought to shore up his power base, exiling and executing thousands.
25:34As bombastic as he was in public or in front of the cameras, behind the scenes he was beginning to
25:41unravel.
25:42He was paranoid, and stories of his brutality were starting to come out as well.
25:49Advisors would go into meetings and never come out again.
25:53There were rumours of him feeding body parts to crocodiles,
25:58and even having parts of his victim's body stored in freezers.
26:02This was a man who was really starting to fall apart.
26:07If it has been something bad, critical of me, my people will not be happy as now.
26:14You understand?
26:17You understand what I say?
26:18His need to control wasn't rooted in confidence.
26:23It stemmed from paranoia and insecurity at his humble origins and previous servitude to the British.
26:31Idi Amin's insecurity manifested itself in different ways.
26:39One of those ways was to have those who were supposed to be in power humiliated.
26:48In one incident, he had four white men carry him in as if he was on a throne and they
26:57were slaves.
26:58The symbolism is very clear.
27:00I'm in charge. I'm a black man who's in charge.
27:04The previous colonial situation in which I was raised has been reversed.
27:08Upped-ended.
27:09I'm a powerful black man and these white men now have to carry me in on a pelican.
27:14That's a very arresting image and probably one that those diplomats engaged in with a certain amount of trepidation.
27:24Other ways in which he humiliated people was even more bizarre,
27:31such as keeping parts of their bodies in his fridge,
27:37such as not only torturing them but dismembering them.
27:42I think these are all manifestations of his need to show control and power over other people.
27:52Idi Amin surrounded himself with yes men and yes women.
27:57Or at least women who wouldn't dare say no for fear of the consequences.
28:03And all of these people he treated as his private chattels to either promote or dispose of on a whim.
28:11Some months after Idi Amin announced his divorce from second wife, Kay Adroa, her dismembered body was found in the
28:20trunk of a car.
28:22The official line was that she had died during the abortion of a child who was not Idi's.
28:28The doctor who performed the abortion allegedly took his own life.
28:34Her dead body turned up in the trunk of a car, chopped into pieces.
28:40But it gets worse because after her body was found, Amin ordered his chief medical officer to stitch her body
28:50back together.
28:52And then placed on the steps of the hospital as a symbol of this, don't cross me or this might
29:01happen to you.
29:01A visible indicator of his violence, of his power, of his sadistic and bizarre tendencies.
29:10Without even breaking a sweat, Idi Amin Dada moved on to his next sexual trophy.
29:17Nineteen-year-old go-go dancer Sarah Kayalaba became wife number four.
29:23With Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Amin's new best friend, as best man.
29:29Idi Amin had abducted Sarah from another man, who then mysteriously disappeared.
29:36Ominously, Idi's teen bride came to be known as Suicide Sarah.
29:43Idi Amin's viciousness was different than that of other dictators at the time because it was personal.
29:51Whether it's the use of cannibalism among the Kakwa tribes in the north,
29:56feeding people to crocodiles, although he's not the only dictator to be alleged to have fed people to crocodiles.
30:03And people understood it in that way, the keeping of body parts to be kind of fetishization.
30:09There's enough evidence to suggest that these things did happen.
30:16No one dared to challenge Amin's increasingly violent rule.
30:21His early clowning for the cameras was replaced by a more sombre and menacing demeanor.
30:27As he even turned his prisoners on each other for sport.
30:32His center of operations was his so-called command post.
30:36Here, inside heavily barred cells, prisoners were forced to smash each other's heads with coal hammers.
30:42Their cell blocks just four square concrete block houses, no beds or chairs.
30:48Absurd signs warned those who worked here to keep secrets guarded.
30:52The bodies of tortured victims still lie nearby at Amin's dreaded state research center.
30:59He was nicknamed the butcher of Uganda.
31:03He relished in the delight of not just hurting people, but coming up with creative ways to mutilate bodies.
31:14This is a very disturbed person.
31:21Bodies just appeared from nowhere in Lake Victoria.
31:27According to engineers at hydro plants, up to 40 corpses a day were pulled from the water.
31:33The murder rate was extortionate.
31:37It was just so high.
31:38The best estimates were around 300,000 people murdered.
31:43And their bodies were just dumped.
31:45They were thrown into the rivers, thrown into Lake Victoria, where apparently some of them even clogged up turbines.
31:52The rivers literally run red with blood.
31:55And this wasn't in times of war.
31:57This was in peacetime.
32:00That same year, his former chief of staff, whom he suspected of plotting to replace him, was beaten to death
32:07with rifle butts.
32:10Amin had his head delivered to his residence and kept it in a freezer.
32:17He once brought it to a dinner party.
32:20This was ritualized terror.
32:24To almost anyone, Amin's behavior was so extreme as to be almost impossible to comprehend.
32:34Chopping off heads, putting body parts in fridges, even rumors of cannibalism.
32:41In some way, this was an atavistic form of tribalism.
32:45But I think it all goes back to the fact that he was a terribly limited man with a terribly
32:52limited intellect.
32:53And his violence and his rage simply had no stabilizers.
33:00But for Idi Amin, the start of his inevitable downfall came from an unexpected source.
33:07A country which had once supported him, but had now seen his true colors.
33:13In 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was stormed by four hijackers.
33:41Two Palestinian, two German.
33:44They divert the plane, with its 248 passengers and crew,
33:49to Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
33:52We are going to execute all the passengers.
33:58Amin steps in, welcomes the hijackers and offers himself as a negotiator.
34:06Amin was looking for a way to assert himself globally.
34:09He thought he was an important global figure.
34:11And Tebe in taking the side of the Palestinian nationalists and the Palestinian terrorists.
34:19And that allowed him to, or he believed, allowed him a certain amount of leverage over Western government.
34:27Over the next six days, Amin demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of international diplomacy
34:34by spewing out a torrent of anti-Semitic bile via the media.
34:40In Britain, the whole economy, it has been controlled by Britain, except there are very many Jews
34:48who are also controlling your economy in Britain.
34:52I think you know this.
34:53And as well as in the United States of America, the whole economy there is controlled by Jews.
35:00By siding with the hostage-taking terrorists, Idi Amin had now made an enemy of the West.
35:10Seven days into the siege, in a remarkable covert mission codenamed Operation Thunderbolt,
35:17special commandos flew from Israel and swooped on Entebbe under Cloak of Darkness.
35:26The terrorists were killed, the hostages rescued from right under Amin's nose.
35:32The Entebbe affair ends with a daring raid.
35:37The Israelis launch a raid into Uganda, seemingly impossibly.
35:42I don't think anyone would have imagined this was possible.
35:47And when the Israeli hostages were liberated by their own forces,
35:52it was a bit of an embarrassment for him.
35:55But his relationship with the West was now well and truly fractured and broken.
36:02There was no credence for him anymore.
36:08The United Kingdom, still reeling from the massive intake of expelled Asian refugees from Uganda,
36:14had also had enough of Amin's antics.
36:18All ties between the two nations were severed.
36:22Definitely after Entebbe, his reputation among the West absolutely collapses.
36:29And then there's no, there's not very much support for him from the global West after that point.
36:36Yet in press conferences, Amin still claimed friendship with Britain.
36:41The British are my best friends.
36:46And your best friend is the friend who tells you your mistake.
36:53The madness continued.
36:56After Britain cut off Uganda,
36:58Idi Amin simply bestowed more grandiose titles on himself,
37:03including CBE, Conqueror of the British Empire.
37:07His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marsha Ahoji Dr Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC,
37:17Lord of all the beasts of the earth and fishes of the sea.
37:21And then, without any irony at all...
37:25The last king of Scotland.
37:28His bearing just seemed to get more and more ridiculous,
37:31turning up for TV interviews in pyjamas,
37:34and making the rather bold and somewhat daft claim that he was the last king of Scotland.
37:41And as his madness grew, so did his ever-expanding family.
37:47It's conservatively estimated that he fathered as many as 60 children.
37:52To Idi Amin, love and control were one and the same.
37:57Even the diplomats were left waiting uncomfortably for the president to arrive.
38:01With only a smile from Uganda's roving ambassador,
38:04the former Princess Elizabeth of Toro,
38:06to brighten what must have been for them a painful situation.
38:09Princess Elizabeth of Toro was a talented young lawyer
38:13who resisted Idi Amin's advances.
38:17She managed to flee Uganda before Amin could harm her.
38:21But she still paid a price for not sleeping with her president.
38:25She escaped, then her brother was murdered.
38:30In her memoirs, she wrote that Amin taunted her with the words,
38:35You missed your chance.
38:37You could have been my queen.
38:39It's here that, at the deeper level, the joy of sex and the joy of violence become one.
38:51And it comes through the control and power over others.
38:57That is, I can have sex with you, kill you, injure you, have you as a partner.
39:09These are all merged.
39:13Meanwhile, as Amin retreated into self-aggrandisement and sexual conquest,
39:18Uganda's economy was in freefall.
39:21Hospitals were empty.
39:24Food prices had tripled.
39:27Foreign journalists were expelled.
39:30Inside Amin's compound, rooms filled with dismembered bodies,
39:36freezers holding human remains, heads kept as trophies.
39:41He turned Entebbe's state house built grandly by the British into something of a drunk's paradise,
39:47with parties in the gardens or by the swimming pool.
39:53By early 1979, Amin's hold on power was rotting from the inside out.
39:59And 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.
40:16Amin engaged the age-old tactic of diverting attention by starting a war.
40:22So he invaded Tanzania.
40:30When he invades Tanzania, it's absolutely to shore up his domestic legitimacy.
40:37And that's a tool that dictators often use.
40:40If your domestic prestige seems low, if 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, Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles reached Kampala.
41:07Amin was nowhere to be found.
41:09His invasion of Tanzania was his final mistake.
41:13He tried to invade Tanzania and 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, no 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, a fellow tyrant whose public flamboyance also concealed a private brutality and sexual sadism.
42:04Then on to Saudi Arabia, where 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 and that was preferable to him evidently to death.
42:31In his wake, the silent screams of 300,000 victims.
42:37Prisons, torture chambers, a broken economy.
42:43Swarms of people carrying away huge bags of sugar from a warehouse in downtown Kampala.
42:49Here, 300,000 sacks were stored by Amin whilst sugar ceased to be available on the streets.
42:55Uganda's nightmare wasn't over, but its architect had disappeared.
43:03Once safely out of harm's way, one of his personal physicians would reveal that he had treated the dictator with
43:11conditions ranging from hypomania, schizophrenia and tertiary syphilis.
43:19In the end, Amin's mindlessness and sybaritic lifestyle did the job for him.
43:27He died from kidney failure in July 2003.
43:33What you see throughout history with tyrants and in the modern term dictators is always the same thing.
43:42Unchallenged.
43:43And how, what does this mean?
43:45They either don't allow anyone to talk to them or they surround themselves with yes men.
43:52And that means they never have any real idea of what is going on.
43:59Idi Amin was a personally and intellectually limited person who, through opportunism, craftiness and manipulation, became a terrible dictator and
44:11always lacked the internal ability to monitor what he was doing and brought about his own downfall inevitably.
44:18went to bleed
44:18.
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