Former Ugandan president Idi Amin, one of Africa's bloodiest despots who was blamed for killing tens of thousands of his people, has been buried at a small funeral in Saudi Arabia.
| Far from home, unloved, unlamented... That sounds about right. |
Amin was buried in Jeddah where he had lived for much of the time since being ousted from power in 1979, one of his sons said. He was in his late 70s. Amin, a Muslim, was buried just hours after his death on Saturday local time. "He is buried - the family decided and we have buried him in Jeddah," Ali Amin said by telephone from his home in Jinja, some 80 kilometres east of Uganda's capital Kampala. "The funeral was modest and the attendance was small, mostly family members," a Saudi media source said, declining to be identified.
| "Nobody came to say goodbye. They just came to make sure he was really dead." |
A senior source at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah said Amin had died from complications due to multiple organ failure. He had been critically ill for weeks.
| Give our regards to Himmler, Idi. Kinda hot there in Paradise, ain't it? |
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