General Idi Amin's Assassination Of Uganda
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi party from 1889-1945, Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. Hitler was racially motivated, after he took control of the German government in 1933 he established concentration camps where he imprisoned Jews and other groups that he believed were a threat to his beliefs of Aryan supremacy. This resulted in the Holocaust where he was responsible for the murder of more than six million people. After finally realizing that he had been defeated, and to avoid being captured, Hitler took his own life.
In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government official Milton Obote, Furthermore announced himself the President of Uganda. Which resulted in his barbarous eight-year control of Uganda, under his control there were an estimated 300,000 civilians murdered. Amin’s actions ultimately resulted in the country’s economic decline; Idi Amin was never brought to justice for his horrendous crimes; he fled to Saudia Arabia after his …show more content…
When the term assassination is used you usually think of murder for hire. Assassination is the deliberate killing of a person, often a political leader, usually for political reasons. Assassination has been used in the political arena for centuries; however it is not considered assassination when the countries are at war with each other. Do we really want to make assassination legal? Using assassination as a political tool would mean that if someone does not agree with a political leader’s political view, whether that political leader is foreign or domestic, that political leader would be a target of assassination. There are numerous conspiracy theories that suggest that a political leader such has John F. Kennedy was assassinated by his own country because of his political
In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government official Milton Obote, Furthermore announced himself the President of Uganda. Which resulted in his barbarous eight-year control of Uganda, under his control there were an estimated 300,000 civilians murdered. Amin’s actions ultimately resulted in the country’s economic decline; Idi Amin was never brought to justice for his horrendous crimes; he fled to Saudia Arabia after his …show more content…
When the term assassination is used you usually think of murder for hire. Assassination is the deliberate killing of a person, often a political leader, usually for political reasons. Assassination has been used in the political arena for centuries; however it is not considered assassination when the countries are at war with each other. Do we really want to make assassination legal? Using assassination as a political tool would mean that if someone does not agree with a political leader’s political view, whether that political leader is foreign or domestic, that political leader would be a target of assassination. There are numerous conspiracy theories that suggest that a political leader such has John F. Kennedy was assassinated by his own country because of his political