Article: My Idi was no monster ..he was jolly and kind; EXCLUSIVE: BY WIDOW OF THE TYRANT WHO MURDERED 300,000 OF HIS OWN PEOPLE.(News)

Byline: NICK WEBSTER

HE was a brutal dictator who murdered more than 300,000 of his own people. Idi Amin will go down in history alongside Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

But, in an extraordinary interview on the weekend of his death at the age of 80, his fifth wife Sarah said the Butcher of Uganda was much misunderstood.

Sarah Amin, mother of four of the 43 children he claimed to have fathered, called him a "true African hero" and a "wonderful father".

She said: "He was just a normal person, not a monster.

"He was a jolly person, ...

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