00:00Idi Amin killed somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 of his own people.
00:04Then he retired to a government apartment in Saudi Arabia and died peacefully in his sleep.
00:09He ran Uganda for eight years.
00:11His secret police, the State Research Bureau, had a building in Kampala where people went in and never came out.
00:16Amin personally sat in on the interrogations.
00:19He selected targets by name.
00:21He gave himself the title, Lord of all the beasts of the earth and fishes of the seas.
00:25When soldiers finally overthrew him in 1979, investigators entered State House.
00:30What they found in his refrigerator was never fully made public.
00:34Western governments knew.
00:35They had the documents.
00:37They kept trading with him anyway.
00:38When it was over, Saudi Arabia took him in.
00:41No trial.
00:42No extradition request.
00:43Not one government on earth made a serious move to hold him accountable.
00:47He lived in Jeddah for over 20 years.
00:49Comfortable.
00:50Unbothered.
00:51He died in 2003.
00:52Some monsters don't hide.
00:53They just get a nice apartment and wait.
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