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Ryszard Kapuscinski
 
Date of birth: 04 March 1932
Date of death: 23 January 2007
Country Of Origin: Poland
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" Aesopian language was used by all of us. And of course, using this language meant having readers who understood it. "

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" Amin became a Cold War hybrid and tried to ingratiate himself with everyone and extract money from all sides. He received money from Israel, who wanted to make Uganda into a bridgehead for an eventual invasion of Muslim Sudan. "

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" Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. "

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" Amin introduced a situation of total disorientation. Nobody knew where he was, when and where he would appear. He often used to fly by helicopter round the country and tried to be in as many places as possible. "

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" Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. "

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" Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly. "

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" Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room. "

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" Amin was a jovial, warm-natured jester, quick to make jokes. Of course, he was psychologically immature, like a cruel, overgrown child, unbalanced, impulsive. "

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" Amin was unscrupulous when it came to murdering enemies or people who might become enemies. He acted like an automaton. I don't think he got any pleasure from it. He removed his enemies as you might remove obstacles in your path. "

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" Amin's officers were schooled in military academies in the USA and Great Britain. Everyone wanted his man in Kampala. Amin knew this and exploited it unscrupulously. "

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" At that time Uganda had four aircraft, one of which was at the exclusive disposal of Amin. It would fly to London on shopping trips for the president and his entourage. In Uganda there was nothing. "

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" Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived. "

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" He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel. "

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" I didn't compete with the New York Times, because the Polish press agency is a small piece of cake, not important. "

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" I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. "

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