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In large part, Museveni's transgressions have continued to be downplayed because he took power in the wake of Idi Amin's butchery and disastrous civil war.

Thor Halvorssen: Uganda: A Brutal Reality Obscured Thor Halvorssen 2011

In large part, Museveni's transgressions have continued to be downplayed because he took power in the wake of Idi Amin's butchery and disastrous civil war.

Thor Halvorssen: Uganda: A Brutal Reality Obscured Thor Halvorssen 2011

The response to Amin's interview is an emotional one.

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In 1979 Binaisa became president and briefly ruled at a time when the country was recovering from Idi Amin's tyranny and Tanzanian troops were in control of much of Uganda.

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Sentamu, who trained as a lawyer in Uganda but left after he was beaten by members of Idi Amin's regime, spoke about racist abuse he received from some parishioners in south London in the 1980s.

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Considering all this, what we as Israelis should now acknowledge is Amin's compassion during the interview and her words of kindness afterwards when she told reporters that Shalit had appeared weak and frail.

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As Israelis continue to rage over the inappropriate timing of the interview and Amin's role in it, what has become evidently clear is that it is not about journalistic talents at all.

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Some 5.4 million people were killed in that war; Uganda, of course, endured Idi Amin's bloody regime until 1979.

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My (admittedly Chavista) colleague had ventured the catch-all that the President was speaking to "a specific audience" ... but with TV lenses and microphones at the ready, does it take any stretch of the imagination to understand that off-the-cuff remarks about Amin's supposed cannibalism would be pounced upon by any reporter who was not submitting him/herself to self-censorship for political if not personal security considerations.

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What was singular about this young man was that he was the son of Idi Amin, the late Dictator of Uganda and one of the nastiest tyrants to emerge from Post-Colonial Africa (though he was not without stern competition), having arrived in the UK apparently on the coat tails of Amin's fifth wife, who appears to have been granted asylum by the Germans at some stage.

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