Most Evil Men In History: Idi Amin

Hitler is one of the most recognizable, and despised people to ever live. He is known world round for his oratory skills, and all the horrendous deaths that he was responsible for. He is one of the worst tyrants in history.

There were many steps in choosing my NHD topic. I had to keep in mind the theme, Explore, Encounter, and Exchange. I thought of many different things such as the African American Rights, World War I. And then I thought about the Holocaust. That topic really intrigued me to think about, it was a awful event that changed our history forever. I started doing more and more research on different genocides that have occurred in our history. I saw so many different genocides, that I haven’t really heard about. I decided that the Cambodian Genocide seem the most interesting to me. My family is Vietnamese and therefore my dad talks to me a lot about when he lived in Vietnam and lots about his different experiences there. My dad told me a lot about what the Cambodian Genocide was about, and I found it more and more interesting. This topic affects me in a personally way, which intrigued me to know more about it.

Kony was a master at recruiting his soldiers and workers. To keep his people under his control, he would convince them that he is the Holy Spirit. That was one of his best tactics for recruitment. Also, in 2006, it was recorded that between the years of 1986-2005, Kony has abducted 66,000 children. The LRA does a crazy thing to spread fear into the eyes of civilians. They will hack away their ears, lips, hands and feet with michetties every time they strike a village. He also requires his slaves to kill their own parents so they have no one and nowhere to return if they ever escape. So in other words, they are forced to kill in this army no matter what and they will not be able to escape from the army because Kony gives them a “special potion”

Uganda Throughout the continent of Africa, a majority of the territories experienced colonization. Several nations, specifically Uganda, were placed under the rule of Great Britain. Uganda, an East African country surrounded by the Great Lakes of Africa, was one of the last parts of the continent to be reached by outsiders. Colonization in Uganda has brought many new customs and religion to the land and people.

Ambition is a force that helps drive societies forward. When the power of a nation falls in the hands of a single person ambition takes many spectacular and ugly forms. It can be both the making and destruction of that person but regardless of the net effect, ambition will have deep socio-economic, political, and cultural roots. Three dictators were taken by ambition and it pushed them into a costly, long, battle to obtain and maintain power. Those leaders are Macbeth, Idi Amin, and, Napoleon Bonaparte.

The 1990 's was a grim time in history all across the globe, its epicentre being Rwanda. In April of 1994 the Rwandan President Habyarimana was shot down from a plane. In consequence, immediate war was struck and the goal of extermination of the Tutsi was commenced. This genocide was the result of conscious choice of the elite, therefore, president Habyarimana to promote hatred and fear to keep itself in power. Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s increasing social, economic, and political pressures. Tutsi civilians were also accused of supporting a Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Using hateful propaganda, reading out names of people that must be killed and articles on newspapers. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Leaving an unimaginable 800,000 people dead. Mothers and daughters raped, children, boys and men slaughtered with machetes (United Human rights coucil,2015). How did it get this far? What was the worlds reaction to this gruesome mass murder?

Pol pot's had been taken over and many Cambodians suffered so much from the genocide during the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970. One out of Three of the population in Cambodia died during that time. It has been established that the Khmer Rouge targeted particular groups of people, among them were educated elites. The elites consisted of masters, Ph.D., professors, students, and international student. In addition, people who have survived from the Khmer Rouge (pol pot) lied about their education. If they knew that they lied, they would have died in the camp. The most sadness, memories ever which were, they had lost their friend, cousin and family. According to this two article "SCREAM BLOODY MURDER" by Jennifer Hyde, and "WHY THE ARTS ARE AS IMPORTANT

I recently went to go see The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a movie reboot of the television series of the same name that ran from 1964-1968 starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. I never saw the original television series, so I went into the movie theater with no idea what to expect.

Saddam Hussein came into power formally in 1957 replacing President Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr. He ruled Iraq from 1957-1991 formally and in hiding from 1991-2003.

There were preliminary warning signs made to the UN during the civil war that went ignored. Of these on January 11th, 1994, General Dallaire sent a cable warning to the UN department of peacekeeping that the pro- government militia group Interahamwe, are plotting an anti-Tutsi campaign to exterminate the Tutsis. General Dallaire received information that Hutu Government officials had a huge stock full of weaponry and Dallaire requested the UN department of peacekeeping for authorization to raid the stock of weapons that was headed towards Hutu militias (Adelman, 1999). The UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping at the time, Kofi Annan, denied General Dallaire authorization to act and told Dallaire to talk to the Hutu government, that same

The systematic elimination of possible threats to his power reached record numbers of more than 300,000 individuals which caused him to earn the nickname “The Butcher of Uganda”. These numbers were not only attributed during his reign as dictator of Uganda, but also took into account all the other deaths he had a direct hand in while still climbing the ranks of both the British and Ugandan military. It is very easy to see that the Butcher of Uganda truly fits his

Politics is always an act of manipulation and there may be a dissonance between the public persona of a leader and the ruthless actuality of their lives. Kevin Macdonald’s 2006 political biopic film The Last King of Scotland is based on political and personal events throughout the narcissistic Adi Amin’s despotic, traumatic and destructive rule of Uganda during the 1970s. It shows two different representations of Amin: one that manipulates his public persona as someone who works for and with the people and the other as someone ruthless who will manipulate anyone to stay in power. The film is also an act of manipulation as we witness these events through the perspective of the politically naïve and altruistic eyes of Nick Garrigan.

Mdlalose, I don't want us to work on hearsay. I don't want us following leads that only lead to dead ends, okay? Yes, but... those guys are connected...

A year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General Abdul Karim Qassim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq. The Ba'athists opposed the new government, and in 1959, Saddam was involved in the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Qassim. Saddam was shot in the leg, but managed to flee to Syria, from where he later moved to Egypt. He was sentenced to death, in absentia. In exile he attended the University of Cairo law school.

In both documentaries, General Idi Amin Dada and The Act of Killing, the authors spent a considerable amount of time with the perpetrators of mass murder. In The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer gets access to the executioners, gangsters and paramilitary leaders who carried out millions of mass killings. In General Idi Amin, Barbet Schroeder spent time with the third Ugandan President and one of the greatest mass murderers, Idi Amin Dada. Schroeder was able to document his firsthand account of events. These documentaries demonstrate the kind of extraordinary access the authors were given and their ability to document the unspeakably painful truth.