On This Day 1975: 'Despotic Dictator's Firing Squad Threats To Author'
British writer Denis Hills was arrested in Uganda after referring to its President Idi Amin as the "black Nero" and a "village tyrant" in one of his books.
Hills was freed after the Queen interceded and the UK Government sent Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to Kampala to bring him home.
Amin was a military dictator who seized power in a coup in 1971 and is believed to be responsible for up to 500,000 deaths during his reign, which ended in 1979. He died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003.
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