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Amin Dada

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A·min Da·da  (ä-mn dä-dä, dädä), Idi c. 1925-2003.
Ugandan dictator (1971-1979) whose brutal and repressive regime ended when he fled the country after being deposed in a coup d'état.


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Oppressed under all the northern presidents after independence -- Milton Obote, Idi Amin Dada et Tito Okello -- the Baganda had found a ready ally in Museveni, a southerner from the minority Banyankole group.
It is claimed while with the KAR, he was instrumental in obtaining a commission for Idi Amin Dada who later became president of Uganda.
The despotic president Idi Amin Dada had recently come to power and was purging the army of soldiers loyal to his predecessor, Milton Obote.
 
 
 
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