Sentences with phrase «dictator idi»

The plane was diverted to Uganda's Entebbe airport, where with the cooperation of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the hijackers demanded that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the lives of the Jewish passengers.

Bolstered by the support of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the terrorists were seeking the release of 40 Palestinian militants — as well as 13 other prisoners around the world.

In the summer of 1976, a group of Palestinian militants and left - wing West German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight with the help of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

It's Ugandan dictator Idi Amin who shines more, with Anozie stealing the show, in the few scenes he appears, as a man sold on his own myth.

The legendary Forest Whitaker has always been a strong fit for historical roles, whether it was his work as jazz musician Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood's «Bird,» his Oscar - winning turn as dictator Idi Amin in «The Last King of Scotland,» or White House butler Eugene Allen in «The Butler.»

Actor Forest Whitaker has signed up to play a very different African figure from the dictator Idi Amin, who he portrayed in the film The Last King of...

Actor Forest Whitaker has signed up to play a very different African figure from the dictator Idi Amin, who he portrayed in the film The Last King of Scotland.

Few events represent such a confluence of global issues - the Israel - Palestine conflict, the reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, West German revolutionaries - or such a political minefield in dramatisation.

A walk - on part by unhinged Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

When my parents came to the U.S. in 1973 as refugees from Uganda's brutal dictator Idi Amin, we were one of the only South Asian families on my block in the suburbs of Chicago.

Not exact matches

In a defining piece last October, Noah compared Trump's self - regarding public statements to strikingly similar ones from African dictators like Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gaddafi.

I remember Uganda being run by IDI AMIN.A Dictator who ran his domain from top to bottom and would never listen to advice from his Generals and Government.He ruled with a fist of Iron.

Other such dictators have held power by similar means: Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Mohammar Qaddafi, to mention a few.

Truly, knowing who Jammeh is and reading many political science theories about the manipulative nature of dictators that ranges from Pol Pot of Cambodian (politician and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge) and Nuon Chea (chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge), Idi Amine of Uganda and Mobutu of Democratic Republic of Congo, I am disturbed by the same mechanism being explored by Jammeh.

The hijacked plane is diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where it is met by the country's notorious dictator, Idi Amin (Nonso Anozie).

Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator in «The Last King of Scotland,» is such a character.

In his insert essay for the Criterion Collection's recent Blu - ray release of Barbet Schroeder's seminal General Idi Amin Dada: A Self - Portrait, J. Hoberman compares Schroeder's chilling examination of its eponymous Ugandan dictator to Jean Rouch's -LSB-...]

And for the NBR crowd, the film ends with cute archival footage of the real Idi Amin that serves no function other than to help Oscar hounds determine if Whitaker's approximation of the dictator's physical essence was spot on.

The Last King of Scotland also tells the story of a young man who falls under the sway of a charismatic leader — in this case Idi Amin, the brutal dictator who terrorized Uganda in the 70s.