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 "slug": "idi-amin",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عيدي أمين",
  "en": "Idi Amin",
  "ur": "عیدی امین"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ضابط عسكري أوغندي (1928–2003) صار ثالث رئيس لأوغندا بانقلاب 25 يناير 1971 وحكمها حتى أُطيح به في 11 أبريل 1979؛ اتسم حكمه بانتهاكات واسعة لحقوق الإنسان وسوء إدارة اقتصادية، وطرد سنة 1972 الآسيويين المقيمين في أوغندا، وانتهى بحرب أوغندا وتنزانيا. نشأ في أسرة مسلمة وحفظ القرآن صبيا، ولم تسمِّ المصادر له مدرسة دينية. مات في منفاه بجدة سنة 2003.",
  "en": "Ugandan military officer (1928–2003) who became the third president of Uganda in the coup of 25 January 1971 and ruled until his overthrow on 11 April 1979. His rule was marked by widespread human-rights abuses and economic mismanagement; he expelled Uganda's Asian residents in 1972, and his regime ended with the Uganda–Tanzania War. He was raised in a Muslim family and memorised the Quran as a boy; the sources name no religious school for him. He died in exile at Jeddah in 2003.",
  "ur": "یوگنڈا کے فوجی افسر (1928ء–2003ء) جو 25 جنوری 1971ء کی فوجی بغاوت میں یوگنڈا کے تیسرے صدر بنے اور 11 اپریل 1979ء کو معزول ہونے تک حکمران رہے۔ ان کے دور میں انسانی حقوق کی وسیع پامالی اور معاشی بدانتظامی ہوئی؛ 1972ء میں انہوں نے یوگنڈا کے ایشیائی باشندوں کو نکال دیا، اور ان کی حکومت یوگنڈا–تنزانیہ جنگ پر ختم ہوئی۔ وہ ایک مسلمان گھرانے میں پلے بڑھے اور بچپن میں قرآن حفظ کیا؛ مصادر ان کے لیے کوئی مذہبی مکتب فکر بیان نہیں کرتے۔ 2003ء میں جدہ میں جلاوطنی کے دوران ان کا انتقال ہوا۔"
 },
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  "east-africa"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1928.4084546568376,
  "latest": 2003.6242359527942
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1928-05-30",
   "hijri": "1346",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "His birth date is genuinely disputed and no birth records were kept. Family tradition and the Saudi authorities in Jeddah give 10 Dhu al-Hijja 1346 AH (30 May 1928), at Kampala, and the English article's infobox and lead follow that date; British governmental records give the year 1925, which Wikidata carries as its preferred value at year precision, and Amin himself gave ages implying 1926 or 1928 in different accounts. The day-precision date is recorded here with the dispute stated; no place entity for Kampala exists in the museum, so no born_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "2003-08-16",
   "hijri": "1424",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "He died on 16 August 2003 at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he had lived in exile since 1980, and was buried at Ruwais Cemetery in Jeddah. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
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    "source/wikidata-idi-amin"
   ]
  }
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 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Idi Amin Dada",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "عيدي أمين",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "عیدی امین",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "general",
   "politician"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1928-05-30",
   "hijri": "1346",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "His birth date is genuinely disputed and no birth records were kept. Family tradition and the Saudi authorities in Jeddah give 10 Dhu al-Hijja 1346 AH (30 May 1928), at Kampala, and the English article's infobox and lead follow that date; British governmental records give the year 1925, which Wikidata carries as its preferred value at year precision, and Amin himself gave ages implying 1926 or 1928 in different accounts. The day-precision date is recorded here with the dispute stated; no place entity for Kampala exists in the museum, so no born_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-idi-amin-en",
    "source/wikidata-idi-amin"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "2003-08-16",
   "hijri": "1424",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "He died on 16 August 2003 at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he had lived in exile since 1980, and was buried at Ruwais Cemetery in Jeddah. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-idi-amin"
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "His Muslim identity and upbringing are well attested but no source names a school for him. The English article states that he was born to Muslim parents, that he was named after the Eid al-Adha holiday on which he was born, and that he memorised the Quran as a boy at Semuto and Bombo; the Arabic article records that his father converted to Islam in 1910. Upbringing, formation and practice never name a school, and Wikidata sets his religion (P140) explicitly to no value. The value stays unknown.",
    "sources": [
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  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q48231"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia revision 1382046170 of 26 October 2026, Arabic revision 76391367 of 30 August 2026 and Urdu revision 9684404 of 3 April 2026, each fetched on 27 October 2026 by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it; Wikidata item Q48231 revision 2557927643 of 17 October 2026, read from the Wikidata API. The man was verified absent from the museum in both directions: no person file matches his name in any script and no museum record carries Q48231. No succession edge is written: he succeeded Milton Obote and was succeeded by Yusuf Lule, and neither man has a museum record. No born_in: no place entity exists for Kampala.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والأسرة",
     "markdown": "تتعارض الروايات في سنة ولادته ومكانها، إذ لم تُحفظ سجلات ميلاد للأوغنديين الأصليين في ذلك الوقت: فالسجلات البريطانية تعطي سنة 1925، أما تقليد أسرته والسلطات السعودية في جدة فيعطيان يوم 10 ذي الحجة 1346هـ الموافق 30 مايو 1928 في كامبالا، وقد أعطى أمين نفسه في مقابلات أعمارا تفضي إلى سنوات مختلفة.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin} وُلد لأب من جماعة كاكوا كان مسيحيا كاثوليكيا عند ولادته ثم اعتنق الإسلام سنة 1910 وغيّر اسمه إلى أمين دادا، ولأم من جماعة لوغبارا.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar} وسُمّي «عيدي» لولادته في يوم عيد الأضحى، وانتقل صبيا إلى بيت شيخ في بلدة سيموتو فحفظ القرآن بالتلاوة حتى الثانية عشرة، ثم واصل الحفظ في مدرسة بومبو حتى 1944 ونال — بحسب المقالة — جوائز في التجويد.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة العسكرية والصعود",
     "markdown": "التحق أمين سنة 1946 ببنادق الملك الإفريقية في الجيش الاستعماري البريطاني طبّاخا، وارتقى إلى رتبة ملازم وشارك في العمليات البريطانية ضد المتمردين الصوماليين وضد ثورة ماو ماو في كينيا.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} وبعد استقلال أوغندا سنة 1962 بقي في الجيش، فصار نائب قائده سنة 1964 وقائده بعد ذلك بعامين.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} وفي 25 يناير 1971 قاد انقلابا أطاح بالرئيس ميلتون أوبوتي وتولى الرئاسة.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "امتد حكم أمين من 1971 إلى 1979، وفيه طرد سنة 1972 الآسيويين المقيمين في أوغندا، ومالأ المناصب العليا بجماعاته: فبحلول 1977 كان المسلمون يشكلون أغلبية كبار الجنرالات والوزراء وهم نحو خمسة في المئة فقط من السكان، بحسب المقالة الإنجليزية.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} وانتهى حكمه بحرب أوغندا وتنزانيا؛ فأُطيح به في 11 أبريل 1979.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المنفى والوفاة",
     "markdown": "فرّ أمين أولا إلى ليبيا فبقي فيها حتى 1980، ثم استقر في المملكة العربية السعودية حيث منحته الأسرة الملكة ملاذا وإعانة مقابل ابتعاده عن السياسة، ولم يُبدِ في مقابلاته في المنفى ندما على طبيعة حكمه.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} ومات في جدة في 16 أغسطس 2003 ودُفن في مقبرة الرويس فيها.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة عن السجل",
     "markdown": "نشأ أمين في أسرة مسلمة وحفظ القرآن صبيا وحمل لقب الحاج، وكل ذلك نشأة وتكوين وممارسة لا تسمية لمدرسة؛ ولم يسمِّ أي مصدر من المصادر المستشارة — النصوص الإنجليزية والعربية والأردية وويكيداتا — مدرسة دينية له، بل إن ويكيداتا تضبط قيمة دينه صراحة على «لا قيمة».{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin} فسُجّل دينه «غير معروف».\n\nولا توجد في المتحف سجلات لسلفه ميلتون أوبوتي ولا لخلفه يوسف لولي، فلم تُكتب علاقة خلافة؛ والعلاقة المكتوبة هي وفاته في جدة.{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and family",
     "markdown": "Accounts of his birth disagree, because no birth records were kept for native Ugandans at the time: British governmental records give the year 1925, while family tradition and the Saudi authorities in Jeddah give 10 Dhu al-Hijja 1346 AH, corresponding to 30 May 1928, at Kampala, and Amin himself gave ages in interviews implying different years. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} {cite:wikidata-idi-amin} He was born to a Kakwa father who had been christened a Roman Catholic and converted to Islam in 1910, changing his name to Amin Dada, and to a Lugbara mother. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar} He was given the name Idi after his birth on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, and as a boy he moved to the home of a sheikh in the town of Semuto and memorised the Quran by recitation until he was twelve; he continued at the madrasa in Bombo until 1944 and reportedly won honours in recitation. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Military career and rise",
     "markdown": "Amin joined the King's African Rifles, part of the British colonial army, in 1946 as a cook, rose to the rank of lieutenant, and took part in British actions against Somali rebels and then in the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} After Uganda's independence in 1962 he remained in the army, becoming deputy army commander in 1964 and commander two years later. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} On 25 January 1971 he led the coup that overthrew President Milton Obote and took the presidency. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Rule",
     "markdown": "Amin ruled from 1971 to 1979. In 1972 he expelled Uganda's Asian residents. His regime favoured his own groups in senior posts: by 1977 Muslims formed the large majority of the top generals and of the cabinet, although they were only about five per cent of the population, according to the English article. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} His rule ended with the Uganda–Tanzania War, and he was overthrown on 11 April 1979. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Exile and death",
     "markdown": "Amin first escaped to Libya, where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia, where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a subsidy in return for staying out of politics; in interviews in exile he never expressed remorse for the brutal nature of his regime. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} He died at Jeddah on 16 August 2003 and was buried at Ruwais Cemetery there. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} {cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note on the record",
     "markdown": "Amin was raised in a Muslim family, memorised the Quran as a boy and carried the title Al-Hajji — upbringing, formation and practice, none of which names a school. None of the sources consulted — the English, Arabic and Urdu articles and Wikidata — names a religious school for him, and Wikidata sets his religion value explicitly to no value. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar} {cite:wikidata-idi-amin} His faith is therefore recorded as unknown.\n\nNeither his predecessor Milton Obote nor his successor Yusuf Lule has a record in the museum, so no succession relation is written; the relation written is his death at Jeddah. {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور فوجی خدمات",
     "markdown": "ان کی تاریخِ پیدائش متنازع ہے: برطانوی سرکاری ریکارڈ 1925ء دیتے ہیں، جبکہ خاندانی روایت اور جدہ میں سعودی حکام 30 مئی 1928ء (10 ذو الحجہ 1346ھ) کو کمبالا میں ان کی پیدائش بتاتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin} ان کے والد کاکوا قبیلے سے تھے، کیتھولک مسیحی پیدا ہوئے اور 1910ء میں اسلام قبول کر کے اپنا نام امین دادا رکھا؛ عیدی امین ایک مسلمان گھرانے میں پلے بڑھے اور بچپن میں قرآن حفظ کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar} 1946ء میں وہ برطانوی نوآبادیاتی فوج کی کنگز افریقن رائفلز میں باورچی بھرتی ہوئے، لیفٹیننٹ کے عہدے تک پہنچے، اور آزادی کے بعد یوگنڈا کی فوج کے کمانڈر بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکومت، جلاوطنی اور وفات",
     "markdown": "1972ء میں انہوں نے یوگنڈا کے ایشیائی باشندوں کو ملک بدر کر دیا، اور ان کی حکومت یوگنڈا–تنزانیہ جنگ پر ختم ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en} وہ پہلے لیبیا گئے، پھر سعودی عرب میں آباد ہو گئے، اور 16 اگست 2003ء کو جدہ میں ان کا انتقال ہوا اور وہیں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر ایک نوٹ",
     "markdown": "ان کی مسلمان نشوونما اور بچپن میں قرآن حفظ کرنا ثابت ہے، مگر کوئی مصدر ان کے لیے کوئی مذہبی مکتب فکر بیان نہیں کرتا، اور ویکی ڈیٹا میں ان کی مذہبی قدر صراحتاً «کوئی قدر نہیں» درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}{cite:wikidata-idi-amin} اس لیے ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج کیا گیا ہے۔ اردو مضمون موجز ہے، چنانچہ یہ متن زیادہ تر انگریزی اور عربی مضامین پر مبنی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-idi-amin-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-idi-amin}"
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