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Article: FEW IN UGANDA MOURN IDI AMIN.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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Byline: Henry Wasswa Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda -- For many Ugandans, the death of former dictator Idi Amin on Saturday severed the last link to an era best forgotten: eight years of brutal rule defined by the deaths of up to 300,000 people and the memory of thousands of hastily disposed bodies collecting in Lake Victoria.
But 25 years after he went into exile, some found it galling that Amin was never punished for bringing so much misery to what had been a prosperous country. He never expressed remorse and whiled away his later years fishing and taking strolls on the beach in Saudi Arabia.
"He should have lived longer to repent. He's now ...