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From: "morris komakech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [AcoliForum] Amin's parents separated. Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:25:44 -0400
Good piece of History, with details well craved out, this is a responsible journalism. Morris Komakech ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sisto Erista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:16 PM Subject: [AcoliForum] Amin's parents separated.
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> Monday, 18 August 2003 05:16 pm
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>
> >>Rejected then taken in by dad; a timeline
> >>By Fred Guweddeko
> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>"Amin's parents separated after suspicion that he wa fathered by Kabaka
> >>Chwa"
> >>
> >>Idi Amin (2nd right) with former Kenyan president Jomo Kinyatta (Extreme
> >>left) and there wives (File and photo)
> >>
> >>His childhood real names were Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo.
> >>
> >>He was born on May 17, 1928 at about 4.00 a.m. in a police barracks at
the
> >>present International Conference Centre in Kampala.
> >>
> >>He was of the Adibu clan of the Kakwa ethnic group.
> >>His father was initially Andreas Nyabire, a Catholic who converted to
> >>Islam in 1910 and became Amin Dada.
> >>
> >>Andreas Nyabire Amin Dada was born in 1889 and died in 1976. He was a
> >>Kakwa from Adida in Southern Sudan.
> >>
> >>The mother of Idi Amin was called Assa Aatte.
> >>Born in 1904, she died in 1970.
> >>
> >>She was daughter of a Lugbara Sultan (Chief) at Leiko Iruna in the
present
> >>day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
> >>
> >>Aatte was a traditional herbalist dealing with pregnancy and fertility
> >>complications. Aatte had among her patients in 1924-1929, Lady Irene
> >>Druscilla Namaganda, the Nabagereka of Buganda and the Kabaka Sir Daudi
> >>Chwa.
> >>
> >>Amin's parents married in 1921 in Arua, produced their first son in
1922,
> >>a daughter in 1925 and Ango (Amin) in 1928.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin's father served in the 4th King's African Rifles (KAR) from
1915
> >>to 1920 and joined the Uganda Police in 1921. His job in the Uganda
Police
> >>was to administer corporal punishments called kibooko to natives.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin's parents separated in 1931 while living at a new police
barracks
> >>at Kololo. Apparently, the separation resulted from suspicion that Idi
> >>Amin, the baby, had been fathered by Daudi Chwa rather than by Dada.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin's mother got money from the Kabaka and built a house at
Kitubulu
> >>near Entebbe. Amin's father, Dada, rejected him.
> >>
> >>He grew up with his maternal family. His brother and sister died in
1932.
> >>
> >>Three decades later, in 1964, Amin's father accepted him back.
> >>
> >>In 1933 Idi Amin lived with his mother's relatives at Mawale near Semuto
> >>in the present Luwero district. There he reared goats from 1936 to 1938.
> >>He then moved to the home of Sheikh Ahmed Hussein in the present Semuto
> >>town from 1938 to 1940 where he started reciting the Koran.
> >>
> >>In 1940 he came to Bombo to live with his marternal uncle Yusuf Tanaboo.
> >>He tried to register for the equivalent of Primary One but Nubians were
> >>not admitted in schools.
> >>
> >>As a twelve-year-old Amin participated in the Nubian riots against
> >>discrimination and was injured by Makerere College students at
Wandegeya.
> >>
> >>In 1941 Amin joined Garaya Islamic school at Bombo, and again excelled
in
> >>reciting the Koran under Mohammed Al Rajab from 1941 -1944.
> >>
> >>Amin and Abdul Kadir Aliga won honours in reciting the Koran in 1943.
> >>
> >>At the end of 1944 Amin and fifteen other students at the Bombo Garaya
> >>were taken for conscription into the army. Amin and five others were
> >>released for being underage.
> >>
> >>He then went to the present Kiyindi zone at Kalerwe near Bwaise and
> >>started doing odd jobs in 1945.
> >>He got a job as a door hat and coat attendant at the Imperial Hotel at
the
> >>end of 1945.
> >>
> >>Later in 1946 a British army officer was impressed and offered to
recruit
> >>Idi Amin in the army.
> >>
> >>Amin served at Magamaga Barracks in Jinja as a laundry and kitchen army
> >>staff as he trained until 1947 when he transferred to Kenya for real
> >>military service.
> >>
> >>He served in the 21st KAR infantry brigade at Gilgil, until 1949 when
his
> >>unit moved to Somalia at Belet Uen to fight the Shifta animal raiders.
> >>
> >>In 1950, Amin's unit returned to Fort Hall in Kenya. There he trained in
> >>the Scottish military band.
> >>In 1951 he returned to Jinja but went back to Kenya the same year.
> >>
> >>In 1952 his battalion was deployed against the Mau Mau. Amin became
> >>corporal the same year.
> >>
> >>In 1953 he became a sergeant for his role in starting the mobile foot
> >>patrols in the forests occupied by the Mau Mau.
> >>
> >>While fighting the Mau Mau, Amin had a son and a daughter with two
Kikuyu
> >>women.
> >>
> >>Amin's name appeared on the list of those soldiers who performed best
> >>against the Mau Mau. He was also nominated for promotion to the new rank
> >>of efendi (that is, warrant officer equivalent).
> >>
> >>He returned to Jinja, Uganda in 1954 where he was selected best in the
> >>parade for Queen Elizabeth. In 1955 Sgt Amin again led the guard or
honour
> >>to welcome Kabaka Edward Mutesa from exile.
> >>
> >>He moved to Lango district in 1956 and successfully defended the Langi
> >>from the Karimojong raids as head of a platoon.
> >>
> >>He got a child with a Langi woman.
> >>
> >>The same year 1955, Amin's unit was deployed to quell a military mutiny
in
> >>southern Sudan. He again performed well by the standards of the time.
> >>
> >>In 1957 Amin led requests for salary increment. It was denied. Amin also
> >>failed the intellectual (written and oral) tests for promotion. He was
> >>posted to the KAR band.
> >>
> >>In 1958 Amin again failed promotional exams but passed field exercises
in
> >>1959 and was promoted in December of that year.
> >>
> >>In July 1960 a British officer called Ronald Cedric Weeding was defeated
> >>and killed by the Turkana in Karamoja.
> >>
> >>Amin was sent to Karamoja. The army spokesman described Amin as having
> >>"restored the prestige of the forces of law and order in the region of
> >>Karamoja".
> >>
> >>Subsequently, Amin was commissioned to Lieutenant in July 1961 by Sir
> >>Frederick Crawford.
> >>
> >>The same year Amin and Daudi Ochieng were assigned the duty of
negotiating
> >>with Sir Edward Mutesa for a political compromise.
> >>
> >>He convinced Mutesa that the Uganda army in which Amin was part, would
> >>never move against the Kingdom. The mission was a success.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin then moved against the Turkana in 1962 with two convoys of the
> >>4th KAR. Using the threat to cut off their penis, Amin disarmed the
> >>Turkana without a fight.
> >>
> >>He was again part of the initiative to placate the unhappy Mutesa when
in
> >>1963, he proposed that the Kabaka becomes Major General and
> >>Commander-in-Chief of the army.
> >>
> >>Ironically, the same year, Amin prevented the recruitment of Kabaka
Yekka
> >>and Uganda People's Congress youths into the army. He instigated
> >>complaints about the drive for educated people to take over army
> >>leadership.
> >>
> >>Early in 1964 Idi Amin complained that the army was doing all the heavy
> >>work of the independence government of the Rwanda where it was helping
to
> >>keep law and order. He said that they were also working in the Rwenzoris
> >>and on the Sudan border but had not benefited from Uhuru like the civil
> >>servants and the politicians.
> >>
> >>The British army commander Lt.-Colonel W.W. Cheyne blocked Idi Amin's
> >>request for a salary increment. Idi Amin instigated the February-March
> >>military mutiny.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin was proposed for the role of mediator between the mutineers and
> >>the UPC-KY government for the mutiny he had started.
> >>
> >>The end of the mutiny saw the British officers lose their jobs to Amin.
He
> >>also got a salary increment, the promotion to Major and the command of
the
> >>First Battalion.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin who in 1962 had been discontinued from a platoon commander
course
> >>at Wiltshire in the U.K and who in 1963 failed to complete a paratrooper
> >>course nevertheless became a deputy Army Commander in 1964.
> >>
> >>In 1965 Idi Amin was given the task of supporting the Congo nationalists
> >>to resist the foreign supported government of Mobutu Sese Seko.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin benefited financially and invested in a bus company called
> >>Trans-Nile.
> >>
> >>At the end of 1965 the Congo mercenaries defeated the Idi Amin-backed
> >>rebels in the Congo.
> >>
> >>In Uganda Amin was identified with Prime Minister Obote who was being
> >>pressured to leave office.
> >>Idi Amin on February 22, 1966 resisted the military coup to oust Obote
and
> >>helped execute a counter-coup to give Obote absolute power.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin proceeded to Makindye and convinced Mutesa to order the
soldiers
> >>under Brigadier Shaban Opolot not to fight. Amin promised to mediate
> >>between Obote and Mutesa.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin was promoted to Colonel and became the Army Commander replacing
> >>Brigadier Opolot in 1966.
> >>
> >>Amin led the assault on the Lubiri but contrary to orders from Obote
> >>seized only one side instead of encircling the Lubiri.
> >>
> >>Mutesa escaped.
> >>
> >>In February 1967 Idi Amin started attending English lessons under the
> >>adult studies programme at Makerere University Continuing Education
> >>Department.
> >>
> >>In the same month Idi Amin was given powers to increase the size of the
> >>army by two more battalions. Idi Amin used the powers to recruit from
West
> >>Nile and southern Sudan.
> >>
> >>In April 1968, Obote promoted Amin to Major General - a reward for his
> >>loyalty during the Republican Monarchist crisis.
> >>
> >>In 1968 as Army Commander Idi Amin involved Israeli-sponsored operations
> >>to support the rebellion in southern Sudan.
> >>
> >>In 1969 Idi Amin was challenged over his capacity to lead the army
during
> >>a revolutionary Socialist UPC Move-to-the-left period.
> >>
> >>Amin lost control of the army units under Acholi and Langi command. He
> >>joined UPC and attended lessons in Socialism in 1969.
> >>
> >>At the end of 1969 Idi Amin was accused of cowardice in the incident of
> >>Obote's attempted assassination.
> >>
> >>In January 1970 Idi Amin organised through a man called Christopher
Luutu
> >>the assassination of Brigadier Okoya who had accused him.
> >>
> >>Later in 1970 the assassins of Okoya while hiding for fear of Amin
> >>eliminating were arrested and revealed their role in the assassination
> >>through Luutu, a brother to Captain Smart Guweddeko.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin was also found to be linked with the loss of Shs 40m from the
> >>Military Operation Fund. Obote removed Amin from direct command of the
> >>army at the end of 1970.
> >>
> >>In January 1971 Obote ordered for a prosecution file on Idi Amin to be
> >>prepared.
> >>
> >>On January 24, 1971 Idi Amin fled Kampala to avoid arrest. Soldiers led
by
> >>Sergeant-Major Moses Ali received a misinterpreted message from a
> >>signaller and they resisted preparations to arrest Idi Amin.
> >>
> >>Power was seized in Kampala and Idi Amin was sought to take over.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin appeared just as Captain Charles Arube was volunteering to
become
> >>president. Amin accepted to become president on January 25, 1971.
> >>
> >>In April 1971 Acholi soldiers who survived the coup started fleeing to
> >>southern Sudan fearing for their lives.
> >>
> >>In July 1971 Idi Amin visited the UK where his speechwriter James
Namakajo
> >>caused embarrassment by failing to provide a speech at one of the
> >>functions.
> >>
> >>Britain demanded commitment from Idi Amin without them promising to meet
> >>his needs on weapons and drilling the Lake Albert Basin oil.
> >>
> >>In August 1971 Idi Amin re-engaged John Bikobo as Presidential Advisor.
> >>Bikobo had been working under Obote and was responsible for the
> >>Move-to-the-left, the Common Man's Charter, and the
> >>Nakivubo Pronouncements.
> >>
> >>With Bikobo at his side, Amin took similar an even more radical
political
> >>stand than Obote. He turned on the Israelis, British, and all other
> >>imperialists and even changed from the promoted 18 months caretaker
period
> >>to five years so as "to put the country's politics in order."
> >>
> >>Idi Amin showed clemency to former Obote government ministers and
> >>operatives. He allowed them to stay and live as private citizens. In
> >>November 1971 and February 1972 he released Obote's former intelligence
> >>operatives.
> >>
> >>In July 1972 Idi Amin received a petition from Augustine Kamya to place
> >>the economy of Uganda into the hands of the indigenous people.
> >>
> >>On August 1, 1972 Idi Amin declared the economic war.
> >>
> >>On that day Asians were to start leaving Uganda. The country was
attacked
> >>by Obote and Museveni troops with the intention of engaging Idi Amin's
> >>troops as the British landed to prevent the Asian exodus.
> >>
> >>From October 1972 Idi Amin started eliminating all the people linked or
> >>suspected of working with the British, Obote, and Museveni against his
> >>government.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin established the State Research Bureau into a killing machine
> >>targeted at his opponents and those with links to imperialists.
> >>
> >>In July 1973 Obote gave up fighting Idi Amin. In August 1974 Museveni
also
> >>gave up fighting to start an internal guerrilla war against Amin.
> >>
> >>The British government however continued undermining the economy under
Idi
> >>Amin in Uganda.
> >>
> >>In March 1974 Idi Amin eliminated Tanzanians seeking assistance from him
> >>to topple the government of Nyerere. Their crime was to claim that they
> >>had the support of Britain to fight an African country.
> >>
> >>In July 1974 Amin rejected a budget increasing taxes by very high
> >>percentages. He said that he would never allow the overtaxing of the
> >>people at a time when they were involved with his government in a war
> >>against poverty.
> >>
> >>In August 1974 Amin admitted that an economic war was probably much more
> >>difficult than a military war.
> >>
> >>Amin declared a double production campaign and signed a decree to punish
> >>by death people sabotaging the economic war.
> >>
> >>He also declared on behalf of all African countries war for the total
> >>liberation of South Africa from Apartheid. He offered himself as the
first
> >>volunteer in the war to uproot Israel from Palestine.
> >>
> >>In 1975 Amin became OAU chairman and immediately sought to use his
> >>position to rid Africa of all kind of imperialism from both capitalist
and
> >>communist countries. During the OAU conference, General Gowon of Nigeria
> >>who had promised to support Amin was overthrown.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin sought and won the title Doctor of Laws (PhD) from Makerere
> >>University. He sought to use this title to wear the intellectual
authority
> >>necessary to advise the rest of Africa on policy vis-ŕ-vis the
unliberated
> >>regions of the continent.
> >>
> >>In 1976 Uganda suffered from very poor economic conditions. Amin became
> >>more impatient dismissing ministers and civil servants by the day.
> >>Insecurity both real and imagined increased in the population as the SRB
> >>ensured the disappearance of more people.
> >>
> >>Early in 1977 the UPC moved to take advantage of the pathetic situation
in
> >>Uganda and cause an uprising with arms smuggled under the cover of the
> >>Church of Uganda Centenary (1877-1977). Amin learnt of the plot from the
> >>SRB and killed the people involved.
> >>
> >>From March 1977 Amin became increasingly suspicious of the people around
> >>him including those from the Nubian ethnic groups.
> >>
> >>Transfers in the army and temporary appointments became so common that
by
> >>the end of 1977 more than 50 percent of ministerial and military posts
> >>were either vacant or occupied on a temporary basis.
> >>
> >>To mitigate the economic crisis, Amin allowed imports to enter free. He
> >>started providing for the army directly through goods ferried by a
> >>chartered aircraft. To finance these ad hoc transactions Amin started
> >>selling coffee on cash basis - with money paid directly to him.
> >>
> >>At the end of 1978 Amin launched a military exercise called Operation
> >>Magurugur on the Uganda-Tanzania border. The untrusted army units were
not
> >>provided with planes and communications equipment.
> >>
> >>When the artillery shells started falling the troops without
> >>communications fled to Tanzania. This triggered off the war that brought
> >>Amin's mercurial regime to an end.
> >>
> >>Amin fled to Libya in April 1979. While there he failed to maintain his
> >>leadership over his followers in Zaire and Sudan who accused him of
> >>causing their ejection from Uganda. His host Col. Gadhafi resolved to
work
> >>through Brig. Moses Ali in alliance with Museveni's NRM to restore the
> >>losses of Islam in Uganda.
> >>
> >>Idi Amin fell out totally with Col. Gadhafi and had to find sanctuary in
> >>Saudi Arabia in 1981. In 1989 he however, did try to return through
> >>Kinshasa to lead an armed group organised by Col. Juma Oris.
> >>
> >>The attempt was a failure. Idi Amin remained in Saudi Arabia sending
> >>financial assistance to his brother Ramathan (RIP) and six other
relatives
> >>and friends. Until his deatg from a combination of hypertension and
kidney
> >>complications.
> >>
> >>Right up to his death, Amin believed in the mission of his leadership
that
> >>problems of Africa are caused by imperialist interest particularly US
and
> >>Britain with "their local agents" calling themselves politicians.
> >>Amin speaking.
> >> Amin's Ministers where not week.»»»
> >> "We should not talk about Obote" - Amin »»»
> >> God predicted I would be president »»»
> >>When European Diplomats knelt before Amin »»»
> >>
> >>The headlines......
> >>. The two countries reconciled within weeks.
> >>Amin had understood correctly that although the departing colonial power
> >>was Portugal and the Caribbean Island nation of Cuba would soon involve
> >>itself more closely in the geo-politics of Africa,...[more]
> >>
> >>. On the road to economic collapse
> >>Mahmood Hudda, 5, was blown by the winds of tumult to the cold of
Canada.
> >>Roni Madhvani, 8, to a 1970s England he could hardly
comprehend....[more]
> >>
> >>. Amin as the chancellor: A Makerere VC's story
> >>I could say he couldn't probably even pronounce his name both in English
> >>and Kiswahili. But by the time he left, he was actually expressing
himself
> >>quite fluently. And he wanted to learn French...[more]
> >>
> >>. A foreign policy disaster
> >>Idi Amin Dada came to power when he overthrew Apollo Milton Obote's
> >>government on January 25, 1971....[more]
> >>
> >>. When dying was easier than living
> >>Luwum was arrested in February 1977 together with two cabinet ministers,
> >>Charles Oboth Ofumbi and Lt. Col. Erinayo Oryema, for conspiracy in a
coup
> >>plot....[more]
> >>
> >>. Who were Amin's victims?
> >>Benedict Kiwanuka; Democratic Party leader, first Prime minister of
Uganda
> >>and Chief Justice at the time of his death...[more]
> >>
> >>. A girl called Esther Chesire
> >>On March 5, 1976, a student of the Faculty of Law at Makerere
University,
> >>Paul Serwanga, was shot dead by an army captain who had developed an
> >>interest in his (Serwanga) girlfriend....[more]
> >>
> >>. Big Daddy and his women
> >>"The story of Amin and his women is one that turns bizarre, comic and
> >>brutal."...[more]
> >>
> >>. The myths surrounding Idi Amin
> >>The BBC in its Saturday broadcast announcing the death of former
president
> >>Idi Amin Dada reported that he kept the heads of seven of his victims in
a
> >>fridge in his kitchen...[more]
> >>
> >>. Rejected then taken in by dad; a timeline
> >>He was born on May 17, 1928 at about 4.00 a.m. in a police barracks at
the
> >>present International Conference Centre in Kampala....[more]
> >>
> >>. 'The Hitler of Africa'
> >>State of Blood is a book that is written by Henry Kyemba, a man who
served
> >>as principle private secretary to Milton Obote and as a minister in
Amin's
> >>government....[more]
> >>
> >>. Idi Amin is dead already
> >>. MPs want Amin buried in Arua
> >>. 'Amin paid for his sins'
> >>. Public reacts to Amin's death
> >>. Amin for immediate burial
> >>. End of bad chapter, say Uganda Indians
> >>. Idi Amin died young - Nassur
> >>. Amin: A sporting Legacy unequalled
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