HISTORY: HAD AMIN DELIVERED THE ELECTIONS HE PROMISED... Picture: Amin with celebrated Kenyan journalist Mohamed Amin in Saudi Arabia.
As his son, the one thing I regret is that Amin never got to organize general elections. He never explained why he didn't deliver on that promise. However the nation was under constant armed attack and sabotage attempts from the very beginning by Obote and his loyalists who all seemingly just wanted "the chair", plus the west who facilitated them covertly to make the country ungovernable. It's quite amazing how one overthrown dictator (Obote) was claiming to be legitimate over Amin who was actually forced at gunpoint to become president by the military officers who carried out the 1971 coup. By 1979 when Tanzania invaded the country, the world feigned ignorance that Obote had himself priorly overthrown the real legitimate President Muteesa who was installed at independence in 1962 and assassinated while in exile in London by Obote. So they brought Obote back in 1980 and then staged fake elections for him to win. However, if during his presidency Amin had managed to organize polls that were truly free and fair by all standards, he would have emerged victorious hands down if he participated. For the simple reason that he was by far the most charismatic East African at the time. Any challenger would have literally been dwarfed. His pro-African credentials alone put him way beyond any other citizen. Written by Hussein J. L. Amin
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