Article by Michael Mundia Kamau
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The accompanying image, courtesy of the United Nations Photo Library, is of Uganda’s second President, El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, USA, on 1st October 1975. Was El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee really a “most wanted man” as has always been portrayed? Why was El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee granted the honour of addressing the United Nations General Assembly on 1st October 1975 if he was such a “most wanted criminal?” The United Nations General Assembly should have passed a resolution barring El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee from the United Nations and/or any matters related to the United Nations.
El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee (circa 1925 to 16th August 2003), seized power in a military coup in Uganda on 25th January 1971, and ruled Uganda for eight years from then on until he was equally deposed in a military coup on 11th April 1979, that brought Prof. Yusufu Lule to power in Uganda.
El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee’s said eight year rule was shadowy, repressive and murderous, at the centre of which El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee’s security agencies presided over a reign of the terror, the three most dreaded of the security agencies at the time being the State Research Bureau (SRB), the Public Safety Unit (PSU), and the Military Police (MP). The three were the equivalent of Apartheid South Africa’s Bureau of State Security (BOSS), Communist Romania’s “Securitate,” Haiti’s now defunct “Tonton Macoutes” and the Soviet Union’s KGB, nowadays known as SKG.
It is claimed that as many as 150,000 Ugandans lost their lives during the eight year rule of El-Hajj President (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee, and if this is true, then this is genocide. If El-Hajj President (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee was responsible for genocide in Uganda why was he granted such honours as addressing the United Nation’s General Assembly on 1st October 1975?
Why wasn’t El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee ever arrested and/or brought to justice like Charles Taylor, Radovan Karadzic, Bosco Ntaganda, Laurent Gbagbo & Slobodan Milosevic?
Similarly, why weren’t El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee’s key right hand men in Uganda during his eight year rule, such as Gen. Mustafa Adrisi and Col. Isaac Maliyamungu, ever arrested and/or brought to justice? Col. Isaac Maliyamungu even lived in Kenya for a while after El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee was deposed on 11th April 1979.
Following the genocide of Rwanda of 1994, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), was established in 1995 by a United Nations Security Council resolution. Why wasn’t a similar tribunal set up for Uganda after 11th April 1979? After El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee was deposed on 11th April 1979, he fled to Libya where he briefly resided, before living in comfort in Saudi Arabia for the rest of his life, a full 24 years.
In December 1989, during the US presidency of George H.W. Bush i.e. the senior George Bush, American Marines invaded Panama, captured then Panamanian President (Gen.) Manuel Noreiga, and flew back to America with Noreiga, where Noreiga was detained by the Americans for several years, before being transferred to France, where he also further remained incarcerated.
No such drastic Gen. Manuel Noreiga/Panama action was ever taken on El-Hajj President (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee of Uganda. Why? El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee clearly had powerful backers, powerful “friends.”
Was El-Hajj (Gen.) Idi Amin Dada Oumee really “a sworn enemy of the West,” a “revolutionary,” a “Black Messiah,” the “Liberator of the African continent and of Black Africans,” the “Che Guevara of Africa,” as has always been portrayed, or was he actually the exact opposite i.e. a close ally, proxy and very good “friend” of the West? The latter is what it clearly appears;