A market trader, Idi Idrisa, said: "I saw many bodies and several badly injured".
We are not defined by him or Idi Amin What will a $30 kit do?
Dictatorial allcomers must bow before Ugandan president Idi Amin, who styled himself His Excellency, President for Life [sic], Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
Mr Mugabe may be murderous, but not on the scale of, say, Idi Amin in Uganda in the 1970s.
More importantly, it was a chance to bury the ghost of Uganda's most infamous son: Idi Amin, cannibal, soldier, dictator and buffoon.
The authors cite the fact that had Hitler not left a Munich beer hall 13 minutes early due the weather he probably would have been killed by an assassins bomb, and Idi Amin had a grenade bounce off of his chest and he survived, while Kennedy was killed in a moving car 265 feet from his assassin.
The OAU's credibility hit rock-bottom when it elected Idi Amin, the cannibalistic Ugandan tyrant, as its chairman.
Nor did the neighbourhood sit still: in 1979 Mr Nyerere sent his army into Uganda to remove Idi Amin, a well-meaning venture that did Uganda little good in the end and finally bankrupted Tanzania.Compared to some of his neighbours, Mr Nyerere was an angel.
Yet barely a generation ago Uganda suffered under two of the worst regimes that Africa had ever seen, those of the psychopathic Idi Amin (from 1971 to 1979) and of the venally incompetent Milton Obote (from 1962 until General Amin's coup, and again from 1980 to 1985).
Forest Whittaker has just won an Oscar for his portrayal of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, in "The Last King of Scotland".
