![]() ![]() "The question has to be: were there things that he did that were of merit? I mean, is it OK for him to rename the lakes to their original African names? Is it OK for him to get the children educated in a certain way? He tried. I think if you go through history and see the cruelty of some of the dictators that existed before, you'll find that he's not a Cliff Note but a couple of lines. Opens Friday, November 3, at the Ridge Theatre Even in a decade full of high-profile mass murderers (Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, General Suharto, Jorge Rafaél Videla), Idi Amin Dada was by far and. He certainly didn't kill more than some of the leaders of China and the Soviet Union. "You would think that Idi Amin had killed as many people as Hitler by the way they behave. Most of the repres- entatives of colour, actually, who were revolutionaries in some way, from the Gandhis to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, all those people. "I think most of the black political figures who've risen to any kind of notoriety and are aggressively fighting the system were assassinated, killed, imprisoned or demonised. I ask him if he believes that we hold black political leaders up to a different standard than their white counterparts. ![]() "It's not the way it's painted here," he says. ![]() When Whitaker travelled to Uganda, he was surprised to discover that people had mixed feelings about the former dictator. Forest Whitaker gives a career-best performance as crazed Idi Amin in Kevin McDonald’s The Last King of Scotland, a (mostly) fictional tale of the infamous dictator and a young Scottish doctor appointed his personal physician.
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