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Idi Amin Part 6: The Entebbe Raid

Real Dictators

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Tanzanian Army in Disarray

By the seventies, amin is under threat from all sorts of directions. Amin offers a unique solution to solving the dispute with tandenir. He will fight niarera in a boxing match to be refereed by mohammed ali. Niarera goes for broke. The tanzinian army pushes on into uganda. As they trudge over the border, they find evidence of slaughter that is none of their own doing. Ugandan soldiers have been killing civilians and each other. Even the libyan mercenaries that colonel gadafi sent in to show up the defences led. This is an army in disarray and in retreat. It's the archetypal collapse of

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