From 1971 to 1979, Idi Amin Dada devastated Uganda using the persona of the playful joker ...

Idi Amin, the unquestionably evil and perversely fascinating dictator of the east central African nation of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, died Aug. 16 at a hospital in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, where he ...

News about Idi Amin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

It's a classic riff, because it gets exactly at the artist's dilemma in any portrait of evil: Even monsters can dance. And they are dads, have loving kids, wives, pals and human eccentricities ...

The resulting movie, Barbet Schroeder’s General Idi Amin Dada (which was released last year on DVD by Criterion), is a devastating look at despotism in action and a riveting, and strangely ...

The new film The Last King of Scotland has renewed interest in infamous Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Cory Turner discovers another film about Amin, the 1974 documentary General Idi Amin Dada.

This undated file photo shows Uganda's then President Idi Amin Dada. Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by armed groups of exiles in 1979, died in Saudi ...

Idi Amin, who called himself "a pure son of Africa," but whose bizarre and murderous eight years as president of Uganda typified the continent's worst dictatorships, died Saturday. He was believed ...

GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA: SELF-PORTRAITCriterion Collection, $25.49AT ONE POINT, he was the world's deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psych ...

Former Ugandan President Idi Amin, exiled in Saudi Arabia after an eight-year rule marked by breathtaking brutality, was in a coma and in deteriorating condition Monday, a hospital official said ...