Idi Amin Dada Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Exile of Idi Amin Dada

Amin goes first to Libya, departing Uganda in a Bell UH-1 registered 5X-UWG, where sources are divided on whether he remained until December 1979 before finding final asylum in Saudi Arabia

Role range: 1971-1979

Exile of Idi Amin Dada

Flees to Libya when insurgent Ugandan & Tanzanian troops invade the Country. Amin goes first to Libya, departing Uganda in a Bell UH-1 registered 5X-UWG, where sources are divided on whether he remained until December 1979 before finding final asylum in Saudi Arabia

Role range: 1971-1979

Invasion of Uganda

Insurgent Ugandan & Tanzanian troops invade Uganda

Role range: 1971-1979

Invasion of Uganda

Amin is forced to flee the capital, Kampala, when the Tanzanian army, aided by Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army, take the city

Role range: 1971-1979

Siege of Kampala

Amin is forced to flee the capital, Kampala, when the Tanzanian army, aided by Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army, take the city

Role range: 1971-1979

Exile of Idi Amin Dada

Opens a bank account in Jeddah and resides there, subsisting on a Government stipend

Exile of Idi Amin Dada

Amin, who had always held that Uganda needed him, and who never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime attempts to return to Uganda, apparently to lead an armed group organised by Col. Juma Oris

Death of Idi Amin Dada

Death of Idi Amin Dada, in exile in Saudi Arabia