Editing Idi Amin (section)

== Illness and death ==
On 19 July 2003, Amin's fourth wife, Nalongo Madina, reported that he was in a [[coma]] and near death at the [[King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre]] in [[Jeddah]], Saudi Arabia, from [[Renal failure|kidney failure]]. She pleaded with the Ugandan president, [[Yoweri Museveni]], to allow him to return to Uganda for the remainder of his life. Museveni replied that Amin would have to {{qi|answer for his sins the moment he was brought back}}.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 July 2003 |title=Idi Amin back in media spotlight |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3093613.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624145008/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3093613.stm |archive-date=24 June 2011 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=BBC}}</ref> Amin's family eventually decided to disconnect [[life support]] and Amin consequently died at the hospital in Jeddah on 16 August 2003. He was buried in Ruwais Cemetery in Jeddah in a simple grave, without any fanfare.<ref name="APobit_attendancequote">{{Cite news |date=16 August 2003 |title=Idi Amin, ex-dictator of Uganda, dies |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-08-16-amin-obit_x.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220172410/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-08-16-amin-obit_x.htm |archive-date=20 February 2010 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=[[USA Today]] |quote=Amin was buried in Jiddah's Ruwais cemetery after sunset prayers Saturday, said a person close to the family in the Red Sea port city. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was told that very few people attended the funeral.}}</ref>

After Amin's death, [[David Owen]] revealed that during his term as the British Foreign Secretary (1977 to 1979), he had proposed having Amin [[assassination|assassinated]]. He has defended this, arguing: {{qi|I'm not ashamed of considering it, because his regime goes down in the scale of [[Pol Pot]] as one of the worst of all African regimes}}.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wooldridge |first=Mike |last2=Owen |first2=David |date=16 August 2003 |editor-last=Unsworth |editor-first=Fran |title=UK considered killing Idi Amin |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3157101.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117054747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3157101.stm |archive-date=17 November 2006 |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |location=London, United Kingdom of Great Britain |language=English |editor2-first=Mary |editor2-last=Hockaday |editor3-first=Huw |editor3-last=Edwards |editor4-first=Nielsen |editor4-last=Naja |editor5-first=Sula |editor5-last=Jordan |editor6-first=Mary |editor6-last=Darcey |editor7-first=Ralph |editor7-last=Lee |editor8-first=Jonathan |editor8-last=Munro |editor9-first=Ellie |editor9-last=Runcie |editor10-first=Robin |editor10-last=Pembrooke}}</ref>