Uganda united in joy at Amin's exit

They are the only people who had an accurate picture of what was going on during the Amin years. The second group of people who had a fairly accurate picture of events in Uganda during Amin’s dark rule were some of the senior Ugandan exiles.

The third group was the Israeli foreign intelligence agency, Mossad. To this day, most Ugandans and most of the outside world still do not know who Idi Amin was.

30 years since his fall from power, five years since his death, and even with the ocean of information called the Internet, the world at large still does not know who Amin was.

Amin, a simple, naïve, jovial, efficient, patriotic, and cantankerous man who always spoke his mind, clearly told Ugandans and the world who he was. But people refused to believe him.

He was, in the eyes of millions, a murderer, eater of human flesh, who ate one of his own children, murdered one of his wives along with 500,000 Ugandans, and destroyed Uganda’s economy and infrastructure. The story of how the world came to be deceived about Amin is one of the most incredible in modern human history.

So now that Amin was out of power and in exile in Libya, in April 1979, his army defeated, the State Research Bureau security service disbanded, his henchmen in jail, in hiding, or in exile, what new beginning could Ugandans expect?
They were about to find out, much to their horror.