Big Dada is Dead

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"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."

I guess that’s how Idi Amin justified the estimated between 300,000 and 500,000 people he killed over an 8-year period while leaving his country in ruins. Well Big Dada died last night in Saudi Arabia, the only country that proved willing to give him asylum. Meanwhile the debate continues in Uganda as to whether to allow his body to be returned for burial.

I’ve been meaning to read "Talk of the Devil: Encounters With Seven Dictators" the new book of interviews with former dictators (Mengistu from Ethiopia, Baby Doc from Haiti, Idi Amin, Mira Markovic/Yugoslavia and others) to see how their various brutalities were explained, justified or denied by them. One of them has just eluded justice.

Some links
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/16/amin.tyrants.reut/
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/international/africa/16AMIN.html

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 16 August 2003 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Good riddance. Has there been any orderly cue set up for people who want to piss on his corpse? I'm in.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 16 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Get in line. Oh, you are.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/dada.gif

― Dada, Sunday, 17 August 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

but, what about the song from the VW adverts? that'll surely never die!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

So who's going to release Roots Manuva's albums now?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 17 August 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Moma?

― TomB (TomB), Sunday, 17 August 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been wanting to get ahold of that book as well. Thanks for the reminder, H!!

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 17 August 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone else think Dada was going to reveal his identity on this thread?

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Dada is actually me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been wanting to get ahold of that book as well. Thanks for the reminder, H!!

why, for advice and useful tips?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 18 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

hell no, if I wanted advice and useful tips I'd ask somebody successful, like Rumsfeld

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

does Amin still have supporters in Uganda? does he have family there?

I've seen the doc Idi Amin Dada where the filmmaker follows Amin around.... a man who wanted his personality projected onto and through everyone and everything he came into contact with. horrifying.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.onzin.nl/3991/pictures/liar.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 18 August 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess we could have figured that our dada's narcissism would destroy this thread before it began...

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www272.pair.com/ddpowell/images/Mission%20Trip2002/Ugli_Fruit_small.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 18 August 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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