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BOOKS about Idi Amin fall into two categories —those that expose him and those that exploit him. Lately, there has been an outpouring of both genres, an avalanche of Amin literature that threatens to push the dime‐store paperbacks about Nazi storm troopers off the shelf. Unfortunately, the exploitative books outnumber the serious ones and, to a degree, they work to undermine them, by sensationalizing the grisly or comic myths that have long obscured a regime whose evil is very real, very banal and in no need of exaggeration. Two serious books, however, are worth comment.“A State of Blood,” by Henry Kyemba, stands above the pulp thrillers and satirical concoctions;Continued on Page 50The Inside Story of Idi Amin. With a Foreword by Godfrey Lule, Former Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Uganda. New York: Ace Books. Paper, $2.50.Reports to the U.N.
State of blood: the inside story of Idi Amin / Henry Kyemba. Kyemba, Henry. London: Corgi Books, 1977. Physical Description. Adobe EPUB eBook 1.9 MB Tao Lin (Author) Tao Lin is the author of the novels Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX.
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Geneva, Switzerland: International Commission of Jurists. It is the most important book on Amin since David Martin's “General Amin,” which first documented the massacres in Uganda, appeared in 1974. It must be read by anyone (including members of the world press) who persists in regarding Amin as more of a buffoon than a butcher. Kyemba, assisted by’ a former Reuters correspondent, John Man, provides a dismal portrait of a country in its death throes, and of life in the high echelons of Government.
It is a self‐serving account but under the circumstances probably the most reliable we are likely to have of how Amin thinks, acts and squirms to stay in power. Kyemba was, in his words, an “insider” in the Government since 1962. He served President Milton Obote as personal private secretary (he was with Obote in Singapore in January 1971, at the time of the coup) and broke the news to him that Amin's troops had taken over). He held the same position under Amin and then, after a period of suspicion and demotion, rose in 1972 to become Minister of Culture and later Minister of Health.
By the time he defected—in Britain last May, out of fear for his life—he had established a record of longevity in Amin's cabinet. Kyemba was close to Amin. He engaged in late night chats at the Marshal's bedside, counseled his wives and nodded to his mistresses, received a lavish wedding gift from him, supervised his medical treatment and helped cover up his crimes.
“I have worked intimately with the man who gradually revealed himself to he Africa's most ruthless killer,” he says, without overstatement. Kyemba has no doubt that Amin is personally implicated in many of Uganda's killings, which he places—extrapolating, from, among other things, the bloated bodies he has seen floating near Owen's Dam—at 150,000. But never did he hear Amin issue explicit execution orders, only coded “euphemisms” understood by Amin's bodyguards, such as “give him the V.I.P, treatment.”As Minister of Health, Kyemba had access to Mulago Hospital including its busy morgue, and thus a window on Kampala's underlife.
He saw the bullet riddled bodies of Angelican Archbishop Jawan Luwuum and two Cabinet ministers who Amin insisted, to an unbelieving world, ha.
✏Book Title: Biochemical Mechanisms of the System Regulating the Aggregate State of Blood✏Author: S. Andreev✏Publisher: CRC Press✏Release Date: 1990✏Pages: 126✏ISBN: ✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Biochemical Mechanisms of the System Regulating the Aggregate State of Blood Book Summary: The series, Hematology reviews, focuses on key developments in Soviet fundamental and applied research, making recent medical advances in the USSR available to the researcher who does not read Russian. Topics reviewed in this volume include the biochemical and physiological mechanisms of blood clotting, the molecular and biological bases of hemostasis and the role played by prostaglandins in the regulation of blood clotting and fibrinolysis.
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✏Book Title: Stained with Blood✏Author: John Anthony Nordstrom✏Publisher: WestBow Press✏Release Date: 2014-03✏Pages: 316✏ISBN: 445✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Stained with Blood Book Summary: Imagine for a moment a land where the possession of an English Bible was forbidden. Anyone caught carrying such propaganda was imprisoned and then burned. This land was not in a state of communism, but rather its people believed in God and sought out heretics in God's name. Where and when did this land exist? It was England during the sixteenth century. Only the common people spoke the native English language.
Generation after generation of these commoners sat inside the church house unable to understand the Latin-speaking priest. From this spiritual darkness arose a few men who risked their lives believing it was necessary for the people to read the English Bible in their native tongue.
This book traces the history of these men and their works.
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