So last week, Forest Whitaker got raves as Idi Amin, and now Helen Mirren for Queen Elizabeth.
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The President of Uganda was General Idi Amin Dada, a man whose name is today synonymous with evil.
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For the role of General Idi Amin Dada, the dictator of Uganda in the nineteen-seventies, Forest Whitaker has transformed himself.
Tanzania's economic woes were compounded in 1979 and 1981 by a costly military intervention to overthrow President Idi Amin of Uganda.
The Madhvani family in Uganda might have qualified had Idi Amin not interrupted by expelling ethnic Indians for most of the 1970s.
In August 1972, when Ruparelia was only 16, then-President Idi Amin expelled all Asians and Ugandans of Asian descent living in the country.
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She was once rumored to have been married to her father's longtime friend, former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, but that has never been confirmed.
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Mutesi told CNN she's never heard of Idi Amin, the so-called butcher of Uganda, who helped plunge his country into economic chaos throughout the 1970s.
At about 14:00 BST, UKIP leader Nigel Farage announced that Mr Patel, who arrived in the UK in 1972 after fleeing Idi Amin's regime in Uganda, was running for the party.
The flow peaked between 1965 and 1974, boosted by Idi Amin's decision to expel some 90, 000 Gujarati Indians from Uganda, after an angel had told him to do so in a dream.
Pleas by the U. S. State Department to the Ugandan government to have my father declared dead so his estate could be settled and life insurance benefits paid were met with denials by Idi Amin that my father was dead.
He sought refuge from Idi Amin in the United Kingdom in the 1970s but still holds conservative values more recognizable to the African bishops, drawing fire most recently for accusing gay rights' activists of imposing a "dictatorship" of their values.
Anthony Eden, prime minister at the time of Suez, had made it clear he wanted Nasser dead and more recently David Owen has said that as Foreign Secretary, he had a conversation with MI6 about killing Idi Amin in Uganda (neither of which came to anything).
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