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How is it that this man never faced trial for his atrocities?
He had refugee status in Saudi Arabia, and as such was protected by the laws of that country.
When is Africa going to sort itself out so that people can go there without fearing for their lives? It’s like the continent of terror.
[quote=“Coroner”]He had refugee status in Saudi Arabia, and as such was protected by the laws of that country.
When is Africa going to sort itself out so that people can go there without fearing for their lives? It’s like the continent of terror.[/quote]
Is Saudi Arabia considered part of northern Africa?? Brittanica seems to lump it in with Asia instead.
No, Saudi Arabia is part of the Middle-East, but obviously on the Asian continent. I mentioned Africa as a sidenote.
But seriously, that whole continent is screwed up. When a country in Africa starts to look like a desirable holiday destination, an American embassy will get attacked, a war will break out and there’ll be landmines everywhere. We’ll see images of rebel troops who haven’t reached puberty yet and then we’ll change our holiday plans, settling on Columbia instead.
Great. The last time we had lots of Yankees in Columbia was in 1865. No thanks! Please go to someplace in South America…like maybe Colombia. 
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Africa’s a great place to be a dictator. No matter what you do, it will always be blamed on the British/French/Belgians. And no-one will ever interfere with you.
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Ditto Latin America and the U.S.A. Castro has held on to power for nearly half a century using this strategy.
I’ve always found it interesting that Amin could live in peace in Saudi Arabia. Something like 300,000 died at his command and yet he lives out his years in what we can presume to be comfort. I don’t understand why there was never an outrage at Saudi Arabia for sheltering this evil person. I mean they are the pals of the US (and provided 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers) and they have lots of oil, but can you imagine them harboring bin Laden? Or Saddam? Hell, maybe they already are…
cause his victims where “only” africans and who in this world does really care about the black continent???
It’s true that there is a subtle racism in the West that atrocities are worse when they happen to white people who “look like us.” It’s one reason why there are thousands of films and books on the Holocaust, we all have to read the Diary of Anne Frank and watch concentration camp footage in school, so it’s hammered in our brains constantly in the West. But you never learn in school or watch “Schindler’s List” movies about the Rape of Nanjing or the Turkish massacre of the Armenians or the Hutu/Tutsi feud, or…the dozens of other major horrors around the world that have happened to people who don’t happen to be European or North American. The movie “The Killing Fields” was an exception, but aside from that if you ask your average non-Cambodian on the street who Pol Pot was, most would barely recognize his name - “He was some sort of bad guy in Vietnam, right?”
As I recall, Field Marshall Amin was offered asylum in Saudi Arabia (along with something like twenty wives, plus children) as a means of encouraging him to leave Uganda. So the drawback of frustrated justice needs to be balanced alongside this not inconsiderable benefit. Were his asylum not to be honored, it would be that much more difficult to persuade the NEXT dictator to accept asylum.
As an aside, I wonder why no outside powers have cared enough to topple Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, when such an event would be an absolute good thing by almost anybody’s lights (excepting one of the three factions claiming to govern the Congo/Zaire).
cause his victims where “only” africans and who in this world does really care about the black continent???[/quote]
Wrong. Read up alittle. One of his many victims was 74 year old grandmother, Dora Bloch.
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Wrong. Read up alittle. One of his many victims was 74 year old grandmother, Dora Bloch.
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and also the tens of thousands of Indians expelled from the “dark continent” similar to what happens with Chinese in Indonesia, because they are the ‘merchant class’ seen to hold too much money/econ power.
Amin’s situation is similar to what might happend with Liberia’s Taylor. although he has been waffling alot. of course some other countries are demanding a ICC type trial.
the irony is that he replaced a dictator (Obote) who was later "voted in "after Amin left, and whose rule was just as ruthless and harsh and was later himself overthrown.
Interesting article about the criminal inaction of the Lefties when it comes to dictators as long as they are in Africa. Noam Chomsky? Have anything to say about Amin? (I know he isn’t American, but surely his actions justify some condemnation?)
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But the West’s blind eye toward Amin was such that, as the U.S. ambassador to Uganda at the time, Thomas Melady, recently noted, the human rights-oriented administration of future Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter refused to impose even the most minimal sanctions (such as on Ugandan coffee) on Amin’s regime. And this was an administration that unhesitatingly penalized Argentina for human rights abuses against educated, middle-class Marxist terrorists.
The UN (which, interestingly, has been less vocal about Amin than it has been about Milosevic or Mladic), and the human rights NGOs were all disturbingly mute about Amin’s comfortable asylum. Because Amin has enjoyed exile as a Muslim, the world must tolerate it, fearful as the West is of holding Muslims to the same human rights standard as others are held to.
Indeed, while 1979 was a bad year for African dictators-cannibalistic Jean Bedel Bokassa, the “Emperor” of Central Africa, was overthrown by his erstwhile French protectors; sadistic Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea was shot by a Moroccan squad (locals did not believe he could be killed, considering his voodoo talents)-Amin at least survived, no matter how many of his countrymen he fed to the crocodiles. Interesting for those who still believe, or claim to believe, in “international law,” Bokassa, a recent convert to Islam, was removed by a perfectly illegal French Foreign Legion intervention; Moroccans tied up Equatorial Guinea after Nguema, and it was an illegal Tanzanian invasion that liberated Uganda from Amin.
Now that there’s a space available in the Dictator Relocation Program, maybe Mugabe can be convinced to live the good life in exile, along with Kubila Jr., Hun Sen, Charles Taylor (Nigeria just doesn’t have enough corruption for him, and think of the potential personal benefits he could accrue by linking up with Bin Laden and other disaffected Saudis), Mullah Omar and anyone else floating around. Get them all in some unpopulated desert area, and then shoot the lot.