Uganda | Idi Amin | TV Eye | 1979
Thames TV's 'TV Eye' looks at the appalling state of affairs eight months after Idi Amin was overthrown. This film catalogues a terrible tale of woe - murder and looting with no proper police force to control it, broken-down hospitals, flattened towns with no materials to rebuild them, and a ruinous black market and asks what the western aid givers are doing about it. among the interviewees are the sister of the late king Freddie of Uganda, who describes how her son was shot in front of her, and Major Bob Astles, Amin's English adviser, who talks for the first time on television from his Ugandan prison.
First shown: 13/12/1979
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Wow., what a history.Surely, this country has come from far.May God bless the people of Uganda
I don't know why I've been searching these old type of political videos, I find them fascinating.
@dripslick44
Жыл бұрын
I've been watching them for the past two weeks. Yesterday, I watched how Idi Amin expelled Asians/Indians from Uganda
@thisislilraskal
Жыл бұрын
@@dripslick44 and from watching these videos I've learned a lot and understand why that part of the world is, the way it is today...
Sad history! Ugandans have been taken through a roller-coaster through very cantankerous regimes. Museveni has done his part. He needs to move on now that he has put in place a foundation for the country.
Life is short ,see those kids ,1971,now they are old 50s ,
This is why UGANDA and Tanzania are the blood brothers forever 🇹🇿🇺🇬. Here's the LOVE from your beloved neighbor of Tanzania ✌️🤗
@yusufssemwanga689
2 жыл бұрын
You have to know that we ugandans we were very conformable with Amin ruling us, so up to now we hate nyerere and his goons for fighting our beloved president Amin
@jamesalexander3530
2 жыл бұрын
@@yusufssemwanga689 need a reminder what Dada did to Uganda?
@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.
Жыл бұрын
@@yusufssemwanga689 we Egyptians think Amin was a patriotic man too
@obamagaming-zv4vy
Жыл бұрын
@@yusufssemwanga689 comfortable with most products being out of stock,srb kidnappings,overspending on military,disappearances,sanctions....haha very comfortable life Also you cannot blame nyerere you idiot,blame your hero amin for stupidly invading Kagera and not expecting resistance and counterattack
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
@@yusufssemwanga689 we ugandans? Speak for yourself!
It's great to not have the subtitles like we see everywhere these days, I love having to use my ears and brain to get used to the accent. It is not hard to do, but when there are subtitles on screen it shuts that part of the mind down.
@danielemeytre4010
3 жыл бұрын
Soooo true. I agree, i'm italian, never been in english courses and i anyway think the same of you. But without having your skillness to write It down.
@jamesalexander3530
2 жыл бұрын
In KZread, you can turn off the subtitles
@kimalf9887
Жыл бұрын
What about the deaf people?Think about them
Binayisa speaks English fluently than some M.Ps in Uganda's parliament 2020
@ocir9893
4 жыл бұрын
Most of today's MPs can't, even at-the-least, express themselves representation-ally in their own ethnic tongues!
@GodfreySanto
3 жыл бұрын
He was a lawyer
@davidbatthews3811
3 жыл бұрын
@@GodfreySanto He had worked in London (presumably with well educated English people).
@jero7
3 жыл бұрын
And what did his good English help him. M7 had to offer him a pardon to come home. As he had failed to live in America.
@Joobajuba
2 жыл бұрын
Why english. Is not his Mother toung
Thank for the video
The things coronavirus has me watching 😭😭
@gumisirizamichael1208
4 жыл бұрын
Me too at 4am🤣🙌
@briancd37
4 жыл бұрын
Likewise... but interesting!!
@bernardkiprotich2365
4 жыл бұрын
hahahaha lol we too from KE
@Ykedemanc
4 жыл бұрын
Me too on 17th April 2020. Nigerian living in the UK.
@Justforfun-wq7mr
4 жыл бұрын
Miami, FL April 2020 Corona
Almost everyone was so well spoken back then
Congratulations Uganda for picking yourself up and propelling your country to the beauty it is in 2024. I hope Museveni allows a democratic transition. Uganda 🇺🇬 cannot afford to go back to conflicts and coups.
Idi was a mad man..
Thanks for posting this. So informative, so sad. I wish we could learn from history.
@jalianamala6690
3 жыл бұрын
And we must pray for our Uganda
I first heard about Idi Amin as a kid...I remember reading a book called "The book of list" back in the 1970s and it said "Top 10 Most hated people in the world" and Idi Amin was on the list but what caught my attention was the next page said "Top 10 Most loved people" and his name was listed again.
@uleinfamous
11 ай бұрын
I'd love to read that book 😅
@Divinesource-pl9qr
10 ай бұрын
I think depending on who you ask and who had interests like the people who were living there at the time. Complicated political stories.
Every regime will determine the price of coffee, leaving the masses poor. They even have a saying that " u can't rule the rich " .
Who's here watching 2020 banange this corona made me to watch new things
@jalianamala6690
3 жыл бұрын
Am still here hmmmm but old is gold walai
@abdallahbizimungu9351
2 жыл бұрын
Me 2 hhhhh
@paultith3758
Жыл бұрын
Toli weka
So saddanened when I watch this. I was about 5 - 6 years old at this point in Uganda. I honestly think from the documentary, Binaisa was a clever chap. Also feel so saddened that we as Ugandans seemed helpless. I am now honestly very proud of Museveni and how he managed to transform our army to a force to reckon with any day any time. The economy soon recovered etc. I also feel sorry for all the regimes (Lule, Binaisa, Muwanga, Obote and Okello) which served between 1979 - 1986. Uganda was in total anarchy all through. Oh my beloved country. Yet we should love one another. Uganda is now a great nation and am proud of it. God bless this country for it recovered from the "shit hole"
@parthvatsa3619
6 жыл бұрын
Alpha Bulondo ..I did find several Ugandans blaming Museveni, interestingly all of them spoke very highly of Idi Amin in same comment..is it some racial divide ?
@raskltube
6 жыл бұрын
dont u feel sorry about how the indians were booted out?
@MegaJohny56
6 жыл бұрын
I got back from Uganda and heard similar things however when i asked what Amin did the things they credited him with were done either before him or by Museveni! also bear in mind over half the population is too young to remember the hard times. and when i asked why they didn't like museveni they would start on the tirades about him, all the while including his good works, in security infrastructure, power, job provision etc. They are basically too many small children who don't know their past so aren't grateful for their present.
@MegaJohny56
6 жыл бұрын
Pat Mar, why should he? he didn't boot them out and many of them were arrogant and opportunistic, and besides they are back in full force, you should see the temples in kampala
@raskltube
6 жыл бұрын
Because it is enacting oppression upon another group of human beings and I thought we had all learned how unacceptable this is. Furthermore, what I find quite reprehensible is Amin's use of humiliation, which he seems top languish in when a group has their backs against the wall. He was bully to put it kindly, and all good men and women should promote actions that call out bullies.
Wow!!! So true towards the end as H.E Binaisa talks about GB supplying Uganda Army with all consumables and that's how my Dad made money from kickbacks being a Logistics Chief and even got properties in Apartheid South Africa that haunted him to death ofcourse the properties in Nairobi and Mombasa didn't haunt him but he ended up selling them to finance M7 and his rebels as the new Moi regime and it's cronies wanted to grab them.
@felixmakinda7689
3 ай бұрын
Wow 😲
Our old politicians actually spoke English than the goons we have right now
@shamsmehdi3725
4 жыл бұрын
someone needs to show dem da weii
@briancd37
4 жыл бұрын
Are you Ugandan? I'd like to know modern opinion on these documentaries or indeed the times...
@ocir9893
4 жыл бұрын
@Alexi Barona I suggest we declare official, all ethnic languages in the country, then employ english translators as necessary. There will be more meaningful debate in parliament as a result, plus we'll create some jobs along the way!
@tuwmesigepaul8066
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm but why some people like English better than their languages for sure it's shame 😉🤔🤔
@ocir9893
4 жыл бұрын
@@briancd37 Just read the comments man! What kind of question is this?
Listen to de English those Ugandan guys used to speak it's too of higher standards than this one of todays
@chikaeze7013
4 жыл бұрын
Your right my brother!
@JesseAkabwogi
4 жыл бұрын
Yess....Tanzanian police tooo.....
@yodagaming1007
4 жыл бұрын
And now they are reduced to a broken Pidgin dialect.
@toshdidon4434
4 жыл бұрын
My friend I'm not a Ugandan but don't be a fool, to Hell with English, that's not their mother tongue ....
@theturkanabus3610
4 жыл бұрын
Everything was of a higher standard back then. The planet carried fewer people back then.
Binaisa looks very sharp and he's speaking queen's English.
My first time to watch this video. Very interesting...Thanks God to this carantin.
This country called Uganda has suffered since independence thru to the 80's. Then came the new chaps in 86 with lots of promises....... kaboom, the cycle keeps in loop.
Tragically, Uganda needs to quickly teach the details of this history to its young population..
”Its on that natural good fortune that Uganda’s recovery may depend” It's gotten truer and truer each decade
God help Africa ♥️
The Uganda of the 70’s is very nostalgic and idyllic
@FN_FAL_4_ever
2 жыл бұрын
How so? One man raped and pillaged his entire country in less than a decade. How is that nostalgic and idyllic?
@christngouf2251
11 ай бұрын
@@FN_FAL_4_ever go and learn more
God bless America. Free at last, thank God, I am free at last.❤❤❤❤.
@bluefox9er
4 жыл бұрын
you are more free in the UK, Canada,Austrailia and Western Europe than you are in the United States. Facts.
@rogermac6185
4 жыл бұрын
And you have Trump too. Well done!
@aroearobbinson9940
3 жыл бұрын
Lol😂😂you are far from free
Real journalism. We could this kind of reporting again today.
I remember everything was rationed we had milkpowder which i liked licking we had at one time yellow maize meal but the good thing uganda had 2 or 3 seasons in a year to grow crops like sweet potates yams cassava peanuts vegetables in surplus.
@mwendapoleee
2 жыл бұрын
@Where's Walshy How his dead and gone!
Let this be a lesson to Ugandans all in general.
Poor Uganda - what a terrible time for such a lovely people. And it only got worse afterwards. The people of Uganda deserve better. D.A., J.D. (atty & writer on African politics) NYC
this is so great
Ugandan wake up. It's your country. Have you seen what is happening in Kigali? The cleanest in Africa
7:20 yes and who put that hospital there?
Uganda was far batter in Amin regime...but in the hands of these refugee s...uganda is completely down economically..
Museveni must watch this.
@denismeso7000
4 жыл бұрын
why
@timothycost5015
4 жыл бұрын
why do u say M7 MUST WATCH.. THIS WAS LACK OF GOOD LEADERSHIP WE HAVE PEACE IN UGANDA ARMY IS DISPLINED ITS THE POLICE THAT STILL BAD..
So Sad God help Africa
Mad ignorance in these comments. Tragic.
I’m American. I remember my grandma watching and laughing hysterically at the Benny Hill Show and I would see the “THAMES” at the end of it.
@pressed4time
4 жыл бұрын
That's where I know that from! I knew that "THAMES" screen reminded me of something my parents watched...thanks to you I figured it out.🙂
@tastetherainbow9643
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, if I recall correctly Benny Hill was kinda of a risky show , by Americans standards :). My grandparents church going as they were must have been a little kinky. God I miss them so.
@willyjoerockhead
11 ай бұрын
Me also. I thought that funny jazzy music was about to come on with Benny running around falling all over the place.
their English is so good, better than most Ugandans today
Idi Amin destroyed the country’s economy and yet you hear of someone saying that he was a good ruler. While it could have been prudent and wise for them to invite back the Asian shop owners these people are too proud to invite them back. Well I am glad they later did.
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
It hurts to hear some fools glorifying Idi Amin. They have clearly forgotten their past. I understand the part of not wanting the asians back though. The asians treated black people like slaves. They used to call ugandan workers " boy" People recall the phrase " boy! fanya kazi" often used by the asians. They viewed ugandans as the lowest caste.
South Sudan might be sharing this story again.
@oloyaxavier3187
3 жыл бұрын
@Help I'm A Rock Hoping all is well now. Before signing the peace agreement in South Sudan; there was a more chance that a big mess of a kind was likely to happen in South Sudan as it was in Uganda. Thank God there is peace now.
You made this 42 years ago?!
Seems Binaisa was a good option for UG
@michaelx4810
4 жыл бұрын
Lol. How can you trust a man who can’t even do interviews without armed soldiers in the background? He either needs close protection, or he’s being watched closed. Either way he was compromised.
@henryymukasa_AfricanBoy
3 жыл бұрын
The problem is that he was not given enough time time since the army was not interested in solving Uganda's problems
@MrKhatibu
3 жыл бұрын
Yussuf Lule?
@michaelx4810
2 жыл бұрын
@Where's Walshy I have no idea what you’re on about mate.
@anthonyngocihkisilu2973
2 жыл бұрын
Had very nice English
Am ugandan this was my childhood but don't remember it being that bad but maybe because children adjust well and i went to school in Kenya didn't feel the pinch so much.
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
I lived through it and remember the horror.
@ 3:49 on the left of the screen...is that a "lady in waiting"/servant kneeling when the princess sister of the king stops walking? wow! Why would ppl still react to them that way after Amin? Do they still exist?
@petern7425
6 жыл бұрын
It's called culture
@ocir9893
5 жыл бұрын
Protocol, you idiot! ...why does the British Prime Minister still bow infront of Prince William in 2018?
@eliaskayegezi3585
4 жыл бұрын
@@ocir9893 Thank you very much
@NicoleM2108
2 жыл бұрын
@@ocir9893 Culture evolves and protocol changes with education and time. That is not bowing or a courtesy, that is prostrating...a sign of full submission.
Wow that President could speak so fluently Unlike jjaaja waffe asumagira
I'm watching 2021
God help Africa🙏🏼
Idi was a Strong leader of Uganda.
Salute to Museveni for what he has done for Uganda
In 2020 we suffering from dictator Museveni now
Each country goes through a shit phase/phases.
Hard to believe some people in the comments still praising Amin. I guess they're also fans of Pol Pot and Hitler?
@eddyrikhotso9810
Жыл бұрын
I guess propaganda doesn't work on everyone.
@desiregumbo728
Жыл бұрын
Y not,, how many people have died because of America n ts Alies
@christngouf2251
11 ай бұрын
You are funny. If I tell you to choose between be an ugandan to cooperate later and leave if you still want to Keep your citizenship of colonizer? If you who got access to many things and knowledge the indigeneous didn't have access and can't understand where you are living by profiting of a system, then go out. Idi Amin is an hero!!!
@dextermane3126
11 ай бұрын
@@christngouf2251so how did Uganda do after the Asians left ? The Asians slowly became very successful in England . Did the Ugandans become successful with no Indians s
@Ken126
8 ай бұрын
Haha 😄 Are a Ugandan🇺🇬 ? That said, much as the Man had his issues but many have come to believe that western media, the expelled Asians & his "victorious enemies" some how created a targeted exaggerated "campaign" of his wrongs. And we all know in politics, things get messy & many leaders have done alot of bad but through propaganda, the atrocities have been sanitized like the atrocities in Iraq 🇮🇶
William pike was so bias with Amin in his reporting to make M7 get support from the locals.
@mwendapoleee
2 жыл бұрын
Yes by the way these British are the same ppl who promoted Amin to get where he got so these British are hypocrites you can't promote a situation then sit back and watch then comeback to report and emphasizing how much money you are willing to donate!mmmmccccchhhhwwwweeeeee.
Sad History!
Our dear President Idi Amin true ugandan
They want leaders who they could control. Leaders like Nyerere, obote, etc ... who bow to them
@byttlejuice145
3 жыл бұрын
U are very misinformed
@joshuayusufu4223
3 жыл бұрын
True
@jamesalexander3530
2 жыл бұрын
Bullshit!
where is the Scottish doctor who treated the last king of Scotland ?
@gashogumuturi
2 жыл бұрын
Good question. Where is he??
The president nailed it in the end👌
@ansernivisschnegans640
Жыл бұрын
He confirmed, that the expulsion of the Asians would have been a good idea.
They must know da wei
@ThatBeeyatch
5 жыл бұрын
NIck Cross do you ? FOH
@abdirizakjama8574
5 жыл бұрын
No, they lost the way
Who else can recognise Joseph kony in that polic road black toward the end of the video.
"Almost everything that worked was either burnt or looted."
@christngouf2251
11 ай бұрын
Because of indian incompetence to understand what's happening and still profiting the system while denying the ugandan passport that was proposed before to them but that's not often mentioned(don't know why they want to portray indian as saints). Idi Amin is an hero
World has not really changed that much… we make the same mistakes.
If Britain cared all its colonies will be like it or even better BUT.....
@radicalgreek99
4 жыл бұрын
@dapper patto you will really like the movie Empire of Dust. It's about the Chinese getting mineral rights and in return building roads that have totally been neglected by the Africans.
Godfrey Binaissa was a bright chap.
@talentscout7789
5 жыл бұрын
Bernard Chava yeah. He was very smart.
We should learn from our past.
It's only gotten worse, these aren't people.
There was cufew at 7during 1970
Same things happening now
This is the year I was born in Kampala
It will be nice if this documentary is produced by Jaffe .
But didn't Idi actually build the Mulago hospital? and didn't "the lack of foreign help under Amin" actually allude more to the sanctions imposed upon the country?
Jai Bajranbali madad karoo garib insan koo
Some of these Ugandan leaders are very ungrateful.
This guy was a complete basket case. He switched overnight from being a staunch friend of Israel and recipient of all sorts of Aid from her to a bitter enemy--see the Entebbe incident.
@andrex9027
4 жыл бұрын
IDI AMIN WAS GOING INVADE ISREAL TO RUN THE FAKE YEWS OUT.
ALL THOSE moveD, EVEN EVEN BANYANKORWANDA WILL GO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST.
@colekiiza
3 жыл бұрын
shut up hater
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
Hate/tribalism is a disease. Get well soon.
I see museven was just youth indeed 😀😀😀😀😀😀
Africa in a nutshell.
@rayjr62
5 жыл бұрын
No, colonization, raping and pillaging everything the rich can get their hands on, and then leaving when there is nothing more to rape and pillage, in a nutshell.
@talentscout7789
5 жыл бұрын
What they are not telling you is the British were behind all of this. They armed the Tanzanians who overthrew the Amin government.
@radicalgreek99
4 жыл бұрын
Africa never changes. It's always been a shithole
@gijuvarghese6545
3 жыл бұрын
Too many nuts
Great men.
Such reporting in 1979.wow perfect Genalism
How's Uganda doing in the pandemic?
@ronaldmayanja7115
3 жыл бұрын
Quite well actually
@TheMrgoodmanners
2 жыл бұрын
Wayyyyy better than india i can guarantee you that lol
@satyakisil9711
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheMrgoodmanners how would that be?
Uganda will never get such a great leader like him Inspite of all hatred poured on him by colonialists mostly the British, he outclassed the nonsense of yours May the good LORD save his soul
@FN_FAL_4_ever
2 жыл бұрын
He’s burning in hell, right where he belongs. Idi Amin was nothing but a blood thirsty tyrant who murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Ugandans.
@r.k3261
Жыл бұрын
How stupid
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
Keep on deceiving yourself.
@christngouf2251
11 ай бұрын
@@myrstikastop being ignorant and go educate yourself.
Good Indians were fled away in 1972🇮🇳👍
He was best leader for up rooting Indian and British imperialism
@dextermane3126
11 ай бұрын
You think deporting all the Indians was a good idea? Did Uganda prosper afterwards .. I don’t think it did
i love the fact that uganda thought they were better without Asians and now no one actually know anything about uganda and their economy is shit while Asian economies are much better and only getting richer.....ignorance is a curse and some poeple chose to be ignorant and in poverty
@abramslion1
4 жыл бұрын
Not ignorance they didn't like the Asians and infact hated some of them.
@TheMrgoodmanners
2 жыл бұрын
What abt india is so great lol. Thats the planets toilet
@christngouf2251
11 ай бұрын
Speak on Indian who couldn't understand the country they were living gaining independence. Good servants without critical thinking.
M7 has watched Ug since independence n' he is doing his best to change Ug 🇺🇬
@thelies-uganda7096
Жыл бұрын
Museveni has done even worst. Just wait for the day he is out of power then you will see the evil he has put in place. At the moment some of you have been brainwashed to believe that there is peace in Uganda. A country that is truly peaceful is the one that the citizens have the power to peacefully vote the kind of leaders they want in an election, and nobody fights it. Currently Uganda is ripe for a terrible violence.
@myrstika
Жыл бұрын
True.
Trust me it's going to take quite longer than a millennium to rehabilitate the police even up to now
The narrator is very condescending. Did he ever ask himself who in their right mind gave Europe credit to rebuild after each war, how is it that European countries were trusted? And they will have another war.
@acidqueen69
6 жыл бұрын
they had the money to pay for it.
@ocir9893
5 жыл бұрын
White people always gave each other credit and other support after conflicts. Uganda needed 15m pounds over 2 yrs at the time. 6months later, only 2m pounds is availed, thanks to the former colonizer Britain, without any signs of further support forthcoming!
@TheMrgoodmanners
2 жыл бұрын
@@acidqueen69 what money? If it wadnt for the us most of europe would look lyk afghanistan today
@jamesalexander3530
2 жыл бұрын
@@ocir9893 the queen of England, the richest woman in the world, and all her lowly subjects could scrape together was 2m pounds??
IDI AMIN WAS A TRUE RIDER!!!
M7 looks so skinny at that time. I remember my uncle used to have a farm Helper called KAZUNGU,,looks exactly like M7 at that time. OOOH.!!!..those were the days.🤣🤣🤣 Who knew we'll be crying .🤮🤮 haaahaaa!!!
@shakurl9742
3 жыл бұрын
Nostalgic...I wasn't even there yet
The asians got lucky they left
Binaisa spoke better English than m7🙃
@darylharris916
4 жыл бұрын
These people that you mock for how they speak in most cases speak 3 or4 languages, how many do you speak?
@timothycost5015
4 жыл бұрын
There is evidence that since 1986 many things have changed positively in Uganda and these include infrastructural development, revamped economy, peace and stability, rule of law, respect for human rights and professionalisation of the army, rural transformation and generally improved standards of living for Ugandans, including health and education, among others.
Lessons Africa has to learn from our history : 1. Trust ourselves only. 2. Educate ourselves and our children ( not by our slave masters or their Colonialist Education) in order to learn to make good decisions. 3. Collaborate with fellow Africans positively to decrease dependence on colonial slavemaster countries like Britain and US. 4. Learn to sustain ourselves economically from our own natural resources and trade with like minded African nations and other foreign countries to minimize food dependence on the former Colonial Powers and their world bank and IMF. 5. IF we cannot but borrow monies or rely on foreign expertise or assistance ,dont go back to your slavemaster colonial authorities. Try other options before you're forced to go back to Satan.
@tshegofatsosiba2667
4 жыл бұрын
And where has that led the past great leaders of certain African countries? Six feet under by the west. We are still to win that battle🤷🏾♂️
@nucleargaz1
3 жыл бұрын
6/ Your politicians/leaders must learn to decrease their reliance on corruption & force themselves to give their people a chance, I wish you all the best!
Hero
That him guy Museveni who start it the trouble what c no like y c
Binaisa seems able
I really dont understand if Amin was good or bad, some ugandans praise while others condemn
Madhvanis..