1977
“Gasoline is short, crops are rotting in the fields and prudent people—terrified of his secret police—stay huddled in homes reported. Amin, a military dictator who seized power in 1971, ruled Uganda for eight violence-marked years. Human Rights Watch estimates between 100,000 and 500,000 Ugandans were killed before Amin’s ouster during the Uganda-Tanzania War. After a five-year civil war, President Yoweri Museveni took power, a post he remains in today after 38 years.