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Was Idi Amin a buffoonish brute – or a cunning political operator?


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Forty years after his downfall, General Idi Amin remains high on the list of Africa’s most notorious dictators. His record as president of Uganda, after seizing power in 1971, includes mass killings, chaotic administration, economic collapse and the murder of scores of prominent Ugandans, including the chief justice and an archbishop. In the West, Amin is still a byword for brutality and buffoonery.
His interventions on the world stage were bizarre. He frequently fired off provocative messages to Western leaders in the hope of gaining credit in African circles as a fearless champion of the anti-colonial cause. He wished US president Richard Nixon “a speedy recovery from Watergate”, and offered Britain’s music-loving prime minister, Edward Heath, the post of bandmaster after his election defeat. ....

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'Mubarak is Pharaoh': UK diplomat's scathing assessment of Egyptian leader revealed


Mubarak is Pharaoh : UK diplomat s scathing assessment of Egyptian leader revealed
Newly released documents from 1990s also reveal British officials agreed to share information about dissidents with Egyptian intelligence
Hosni Mubarak (foreground) visits the Pyramids with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2002 (AFP)
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Hosni Mubarak is a “Pharaoh” surrounded by people who “protect him from bad news or unwelcome advice”, the “object of sycophantic adulation” who has run out of steam and ideas as “the Egyptian supertanker drifts”.
This is the withering description of Egypt’s long-standing president contained in a secret dispatch from the British ambassador in Cairo contained in declassified files released on Wednesday. ....

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How 'bad feng shui' at Government House prompted Hong Kong's first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa to abandon official residence


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How ‘bad feng shui’ at Government House prompted Hong Kong’s first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa to abandon official residence
Gary Cheung gary.cheung@scmp.com
Hong Kong’s last governor Chris Patten’s car exits Government House on June 30, 1997. Photo: AP
Hong Kong s first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa was very concerned about feng shui at Government House where governors of the then British colony lived and worked, recently declassified records have revealed.
His concern eventually led to his rejection of the 19th-century mansion as his official residence. ....

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Flashback to 1997: 'Rival Gangs' Fought in Albania After Pyramid Scheme Collapse Caused Chaos


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