{UAH} Amin Had What For Dinner?

That Time When Obote Claimed Amin Was A Cannibal Who Had Eaten His Son.

Dear Ugandans,

In the 70's, a hostile Milton Obote forgot that he had himself earlier grabbed power by force from President Muteesa in 1966 before he was also deposed by the army in 1971. He was therefore doing anything possible to reclaim his clearly illegitimate presidency.
To that end, and together with his disgruntled friends, dictator Milton plotted hard, and the Oboteists then started fabricating outrageous rumours against Field Marshal Idi Amin.
Their falsehoods churn rate was quite high.
First he decided that they would best fool everyone if they called themselves "liberators". It was British reporter David Martin who made the suggestion after watching the Southern Africa liberation struggles and the support they gained within the indigenous African masses from the slogan.
When they failed to get any public support inside Uganda from the marketing gimmick, they started working on claims that Idi Amin had murdered 30,000 people. That's the first number that Oboteists gave the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists.
When that claim didn't catch on either, they went to Amnesty International and told them that the number wasn't 30,000 but 100,000.
In my interactions with Andrew Mwenda two years ago on social media, the prolific Ugandan journalist "didn't think it could be more than 10,000".
I deliberately asked him to justify his claim knowing well that even ten thousand was pure invention rather than sound mathematics based on any reality.
The reason being that during Amin's entire reign, there had only been two major incidents.
The first being when he came to power (1971) and where approximately 500 soldiers died on both sides during fighting between Obote loyalists and the army.
The second and last major confrontation was a year later (September 1972) when about 340 rebels attacked the country and were defeated. This figure is from Mr. Yoweri Museveni's book "Sowing the mustard seed", and he was the rebels commander.
So besides these two battles, where were the other outrageous numbers from I asked?
In their struggle to defame Amin, Oboteists creativity had gone in overdrive. They then came up with more slander, this time claiming that Idi Amin was a cannibal who had enjoyed his son Moses for dinner.
The limits to what they were ready to do in order to be the ones to rule the country was seemingly open-ended.
The western media did their noble part in publishing these despicable falsehoods in otherwise respectable encyclopedia and news media.
A few years later when reknown Kenyan journalist Mohamed Amin came to interview Idi Amin in Saudi Arabia (1981), the reporter did the right thing when he asked the former military ruler for proof that Moses was alive and well.
Idi Amin reluctantly sent for Moses, and the journalist insisted on taking this unpublished picture.
Everywhere I travel people are always asking me if the rumors about Idi Amin were true. So I guess it is worth sharing with todays young Ugandans.
Shouldn't they know that there was incredible deliberate slander against the former African President, and it was all orchestrated by Apollo Milton Obote and his friends from Britain?

The second picture is Moses Amin more recently. He is still alive to this day, and just got engaged.

Regards,

Hussein Lumumba Amin.
Secretary of the Family Administrative Committee.
Kampala, Uganda.

Date: 01/06/2016

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