MOBUTU AND AMIN DESTROYED TWO COUNTRIES. ONE BY DICTATORSHIP. ONE BY PROJECT.
Two men. Two countries. Same destruction.
Idi Amin – Uganda.
Amin was a dictator. Pure. He didn’t need foreign masters to tell him to kill. He killed because he loved power.
1971-1979. He expelled 80,000 Asians who ran Uganda’s economy. Shops closed. Banks collapsed. He killed 300,000 Ugandans – Acholi, Langi, intellectuals, soldiers who questioned him.
He turned Uganda, the Pearl of Africa, into a slaughterhouse. Economy fell by 40%. Hospitals had no medicine. Schools had no teachers.
Amin destroyed Uganda because he was a dictator who believed the gun was the law.
Mobutu Sese Seko – Congo.
Mobutu was different. He was not just a dictator. He was a US and Belgium project.
America and Belgium needed a man who would give them Congo’s copper, cobalt, diamonds, and keep Lumumba’s dream dead.
They found Mobutu. They made him President in 1965. They gave him money, guns, CIA training.
For 32 years, Mobutu did their job.
He stole $15 billion. He built palaces in the jungle. He bought yachts. While Congo starved, he was called “our man in Africa” in Washington.
He destroyed Congo not because he was crazy like Amin. Because he was a project. A project to keep Congo poor so America and Belgium could remain rich.
Amin destroyed Uganda by being a dictator.
Mobutu destroyed Congo by being a puppet.
One destroyed by madness. One destroyed by mission.
Both left their countries in ruins that we still live in today.
And you still believe dictators are born? Some are made in Washington and Brussels.
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