Juruga, I have refused to watch the last king of Scotland because of the very reason you had avoided to watch it until now.
Sent from my iPod On 2015-11-15, at 4:17 AM, Hussein Amin <husseinjur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Photo: My mother Kay Amin (RIP) welcoming a guest at State House Nakasero > (1974). Picture taken a month before she died. > > I just watched "The Last King Of Scotland" for the first time. The highly > acclaimed movie about my father. I had intentionally ignored the film because > I already knew it was the same old smear campaign. > > Amin himself, while in Saudi Arabia, had previously been sent several copies > of the book from which the movie was made. He read the summary at the back, > then dumped it. > > My late mother features in the movie. Her role is played by African-American > Hollywood star Kerry Washington. > > I remember the painful reality discovering my mothers death. I looked up at > my father and saw tears in his eyes. She died on August 14th 1974. > > I wouldn't wish such an event to happen to any wife, any mother, any sister > or any daughter. Or to anyone for that matter. > > My last memory of her was when she waved goodbye as I was being taken to > boarding school. As a parent myself today, I know how she must have been > feeling. > > My grandfather was a reverend. Together, we regularly visited her at the > church cemetery where she was laid to rest. She had remained a devout > Christian even after getting married to my Muslim father. And he had accepted > her with her christian faith, partly as respect to her father being a notable > man of the church. > > I found it quite extraordinary that the movie twists a painful family > experience to cause mockery against my family. > > But to then insult a mothers dignity yet she suffered such a painful end is > just heartless. > > The movie is malicious as they portray her in a secret relationship, that she > died while trying to terminate a pregnancy. Yet the fictional white gentleman > they show her with, actually never existed. > > Others have even come out to claim that the affair depicted in the movie was > with a Ugandan. > > The reality is that 4 men abducted my mother from her home the day she died. > That was the last time she was seen alive. > > This fact is problematic. Because then the whole movie story about her > wouldn't make sense anymore. > > The world would then know that Kay Amin was simply abducted forcefully from > her home by armed assailants and murdered. > > So what the film producers did was to try and cause disrepute to a > respectable woman. > > The Ugandan rebels "covert operations" could maybe brief us how their men > picked her from her flat opposite Kiseka market in downtown Kampala and > murdered her. > > Someday I hope to have an amiable chat particularly with Mr. Amama Mbabazi > (secret name: Ahmed Mbayo) who says in his 2016 Presidential candidature > profile that he single-handedly coordinated their activities inside the > country from 1972. > > However, for the British author who wrote the book, some say it must have > been sheer vindictiveness to try and harm her reputation this way even in her > death. > > They explained that there are certain events that were painful to the west. > For example seeing a black African being carried shoulder high on a chair by > white people. Seeing others kneeling before the same man. > > These were momentous images that remain so to this day. They still hurt some > white people. > > As I watched the movie, I saw how Hollywood has excelled in Goebbelism (as in > Joseph Goebbel who did the Nazi's disinformation campaigns). > > They then applauded themselves internationally. "An outstanding performance" > critics said. > As we know, "The Last King of Scotland" went on to win best movie, best actor > and other movie industry perks. > > Glamour and paparazzi cameras filled venues as Hollywood celebrities attended > the movie's premiers and cinema awards to enjoy my parents being maligned. > > Yet others had previously claimed that Kay Amin paid the ultimate price for > the so-called Ugandan liberation. That her death helped gather international > support against Idi Amin. > > We might all recall how they seemed to mourn her when she died. Calling my > father a brutal murderer for her death. A butcher. Only for Hollywood to turn > around unfairly against her today, and basically insult her as some > unfaithful whore. > > I discovered that for a dysfunctional western society to get social harmony, > they desperately need to denigrate someone together. > > They have suddenly done the same to Ghaddafi these days. Months before he was > killed, Ghaddafi was enjoying their courtesy. > > But then suddenly, he also became "the most brutal dictator in Africa" after > they killed him. > > But this time, while Ghadaffi is reviled in western writings, many Africans > are adamant to see that his true legacy on the African continent and in his > country remain alive. > > Idi Amin found out about my mothers death when he received a phone call at > his office. Police accidentally discovered the crime, then contacted him to > report the unbelievable finding. > > But the movie ignores some key criminal facts to try and violate a humble > mothers integrity. A woman who was intelligent and caring about others. > It is also a subtle insult to African women. > > Thanks Mr. Giles Foden! You say you grew up in Uganda. I can imagine what > psychotic behaviour/attitude lingers in your mind towards African women. > > Kay Amin was a mother to four children. My youngest brother was still a baby > when she died that he actually doesn't have any memory of her today. > > But in essence, the woman portrayed in the movie has nothing in common with > the lady who did everything to raise her family and help her country. > > It was reported that Mr. Forest Whitaker had to substantially modify his > script after researching heavily about my father whose role he was to play. > He actually interacted with many locals to try and learn about the real Amin > that they knew. > > Ugandans largely see Idi Amin as by far the most genuine and patriotic > president Uganda ever had. > > Yet nobody will read about this anywhere in the public stories about him. > > The American actor is said to have then discovered all the efforts my father > made for this country. Major initiatives that are somehow also nonexistent in > any western literature about him. > > No wonder reviews said that Mr. Whitaker brought out the human side of Amin > better than any other actor before him. > > It therefore isn't difficult to imagine what kind of Amin had originally been > arranged for Forrest Whitaker to act. > > They probably had wanted a vile, idiotic, cannibalistic buffoon just as they > say in all their accounts about my father. > > Yet these are people who entertain themselves with a respectable mothers > death. > > I remember every year she would organize Christmas parties for thousands of > school children. I was surprised to meet one gentleman a year ago who could > recall this. > > He new the garden and entire compound at State House where kids were brought > to celebrate and have fun. The gifts, the Christmas tree, the songs, the > cakes, even the basketball court where my father played often. > > The gentleman was a young boy among the many children back then. > > First Lady Kay Amin is the person who encouraged my father to include women > in senior government positions. An effort that led to Uganda's first ever > female government Minister, Mary Senkatuka (RIP) who passed away in July this > year 2015. > > My mother was actually very graceful in her role as First Lady. Her education > in literature and her background as a broadcaster helped her in formal > situations. > > She understood official courtesy, diplomacy and etiquette. She discussed > governance, women emancipation and education. She met with women > associations. She discussed with all sorts of dignitaries. She entertained > their spouses while my father held state meetings with the gentlemen. > > I know that there are millions of individuals out there who somehow feel like > experts about my family. Claiming we had peoples heads in the fridge. That we > shot one Ben Kiwanuka in our living room. That my father ate one of his sons > alive. That my father personally assassinated the late Archbishop Janan Luwum > with a shot in the mouth. That we served people to crocodiles, or threw > others out of helicopters from high altitude. > > Who creates these stories? Oh! I forgot. Giles Foden and his ilk. > > People whom we don't even know. > > Truth is, these impostors go around the news networks behaving as experts on > Idi Amin. Yet I never saw them visit us one single day. > > I want to ask them to mind their own. Unfortunately that isn't something that > trolls understand. > > We have grown up hearing their side of the story constantly from childhood. > > They say that the lies get half way around the world before the truth has put > on its shoes. So discussing the father I knew as I regularly do, feels like > it's me against the world. > > However, I genuinely never expected someone to go as far as trying to > demonize my mother as well. > > From the Almighty We Are, And To Him We Will All Return. > > Hussein Lumumba Amin. > Kampala, Uganda. > > 15-11-2015 > > <Kay-1.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________
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