He died cheating the hangman, in exile bankrolled by autocrats with petrodollars. That's very bad.
Idi Amin, the sadist and mass murderer who ran Uganda from 1971 to 1979, died in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, shortly after his son made a global plea for a kidney transplant to save the old thug. What the elder Amin deserved was a transplant to a jail cell.
Amin left a despicable legacy. A Muslim convert, he murdered at least 250,000 Ugandan Christians, most of them Anglicans, though he hated Catholics with equal zeal. He also murdered Ugandans of Asian descent and drove the rest into exile. Amin's "ethnic cleansing" of Asians severely damaged Uganda's economy.
Amin allied with Libya's Muhammar Qaddaffi and buddied with other Arab radicals. He considered war with Kenya and fought neighboring Tanzania. Tanzanian forces finally helped topple him.
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