![]() ![]() Eventually, Garrigan begins to lose faith in Amin as he witnesses the increasing paranoia, repressive murders, and xenophobia in expelling South Asians from the country. When treating Mackenzie, Garrigan and Kay form a relationship and sleep with each other, but Kay tells him he must find a way to leave Uganda. Garrigan discovers that the polygamous leader has ostracized the youngest of his three wives, Kay because she has given birth to an epileptic son, Mackenzie. ![]() Although Garrigan is aware of violence around Kampala, he accepts Amin's explanation that cracking down on the opposition will bring lasting peace to the country. Garrigan soon becomes Amin's trusted confidant and is relied on for much more than medical care, such as matters of state. ![]() Later, Amin invites Garrigan to become his personal physician and take charge of modernizing the country's health care system. Amin, fond of Scotland as a symbol of resilience and admiring the Scottish people for their resistance to the English, is delighted to discover Garrigan's nationality and exchanges his military shirt for Garrigan's Scotland shirt. Amin is impressed by his quick action and initiative. During the incident, Garrigan takes a gun and shoots a mortally wounded cow because no one else has the presence of mind to put it out of its misery. Garrigan is called to a minor car accident involving Amin where he treats his hand. Nicholas Garrigan sincerely believes Amin will help the country, while Sarah warns him of dictators who have taken over before. In the movie, General Idi Amin overthrows incumbent president Milton Obote in a coup d'état. ![]() Until his death, Amin felt that his country needed him and was never brought to justice for his atrocious and terrible crimes. After executions were carried out, Amin usually fed his victims to the crocodiles or simply tossed their bodies into the Nile River. He ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979 until he was officially thrown out of power when he started a war with his neighboring country Tanzania and lost. He even mutilated his own wife and slaughtered his ministers. He murdered an estimated three hundred thousand Ugandans and left children without their parents. His rule was characterized by gross human rights abuse, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, Nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement. However, as the film progress, Amin's true nature is revealed as a delusional xenophobe who kills for pleasure.Īmin turned Uganda into a famine and poverty-ridden wasteland. He also sees killing the opposition as necessary for lasting peace in Uganda. In the beginning of the film, Amin is shown be a jovial person, albeit Anglophobic as shown when Garrigan took the former's gun to kill an injured cow and Amin thinks Garrigan is British until revealed as Scottish, whom Amin admires for their resistance against the British. ![]()
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