Identity
Current Charges
- Extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
- Political repression and military rule.
- Mass human-rights abuses.
- Expulsion of Uganda’s Asian minority.
Full Bio
Idi Amin was a Ugandan military officer who seized power in a 1971 coup and ruled until 1979. His regime was marked by extrajudicial killings, repression, expulsions, economic decline, and widespread human-rights abuses.