The BBC reports that Idi Amin is close to death. If only this had happened a lot sooner, like 1970.
The even better news is that Amin is likely to get the Pinochet treatment if he ventures out of Saudi Arabia (imagine that — a former bloody dictator living in exile in Saudi Arabia!) According to the BBC,
According to local newspaper reports, President Yoweri Museveni has rejected a request from one of his wives to let him go back to Uganda.
Deep wounds
However, the president’s press assistant, Oonapito Ekonioloit was quoted as saying that he was free to return if he so wished but did not rule out the possibility of him being arrested, if he was still alive.
“Everyone knows he has a past. If he has any [legal] case to answer, it will be dealt with according to the law,” he said.
Source:
Idi Amin’s ‘condition worsens’. The BBC, July 21, 2003.