The History of the Ugandan Army

By the late 1950s, Edie had risen as high as an African could in the King's African rifles. The British didn't let their locals be officers in their armies. This policy came back to bite them in the ass when they were preparing to release Uganda as an independent nation. One of those sergeants was a boxer with a fourth-grade education named Idi Amin. He found himself in charge of a platoon in northwest Kenya, captured a bunch of prisoners, and ordered them to be executed.