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Exile of Idi Amin Dada

Uganda · Government / Government of Uganda. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1972–1979Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1972

Idi Amin Dada4 August 1972

Government / Government of Uganda

Amin gives Ugandas 50,000 Asians (mostly Indians of Gujarati origin) 90 days to leave the country, following an alleged dream in which, he claimed, God told him to expel them

Idi Amin Dada1972

Government / Government of Uganda

The Asian community is expelled

1979

Idi Amin Dada1979

Government / Government of Uganda

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

Names involved

Idi Amin Dada

Provenance

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