History silently records, one by one, the every-so-often,
blood-letting despots and the palace revolts that change countless human
lives for the worse down through the ages.
Blood curdling screams of the people despots massacre on their way to power remain indelible on human memory even centuries after the palace revolts.
Often part of someone else’s chess board, despots move in darkness by stealth.
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi seized power in a bloodless military coup from King Idris in 1969 and served as the country’s head of state until 1977, when he stepped down from his official executive role as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya and claimed subsequently to be merely a symbolic figurehead. He styled himself as “Leader of the Revolution”; as recently as 2008, a meeting of traditional African leaders bestowed on him the title “King of Kings”.
The cursed name of Idi Amin Dada still draws shudders from just the memory of his reign of terror. Amin was the military dictator and third President of Uganda a long and tortuous eight years from 1971 to 1979. This despot could lay claim to a past that saw him joining the British colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles back in 1946. Eventually he held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army, and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state. Interesting to remember that while serving in the British Regiment, Amin toured Kenya.
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Blood curdling screams of the people despots massacre on their way to power remain indelible on human memory even centuries after the palace revolts.
Often part of someone else’s chess board, despots move in darkness by stealth.
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi seized power in a bloodless military coup from King Idris in 1969 and served as the country’s head of state until 1977, when he stepped down from his official executive role as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya and claimed subsequently to be merely a symbolic figurehead. He styled himself as “Leader of the Revolution”; as recently as 2008, a meeting of traditional African leaders bestowed on him the title “King of Kings”.
The cursed name of Idi Amin Dada still draws shudders from just the memory of his reign of terror. Amin was the military dictator and third President of Uganda a long and tortuous eight years from 1971 to 1979. This despot could lay claim to a past that saw him joining the British colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles back in 1946. Eventually he held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army, and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state. Interesting to remember that while serving in the British Regiment, Amin toured Kenya.
Read more: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47896
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