“Racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic.”

—  Idi Amin

About Amin's regime. Telegram 1 From the Embassy in Uganda to the Department of State, January 2, 1973, 0700Z, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady. US Department of State http://web.archive.org/web/20060610225514/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e6/66834.htm.

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