Editing Idi Amin (section)

== Family and associates ==
[[File:Lake Viktoria 2009-08-26 14-29-23.JPG|thumb|300px|Remnants of Amin's palace near [[Lake Victoria]]]]

Idi Amin married at least six women, three of whom he [[divorce]]d. He married his first and second wives, Malyamu and Kay, in 1966. In 1967, he married Nora, and then married Nalongo Madina in 1972. On 26 March 1974, he announced on [[Uganda Broadcasting Corporation|Radio Uganda]] that he had divorced Malyamu, Kay and Nora.<ref name="life_and_loves">{{Cite news |date=20 August 2003 |title=Reign of Terror: The life and loves of a tyrant |url=http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/20082003/News/News122.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206070718/http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/20082003/News/News122.html |archive-date=6 February 2008 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=Daily Nation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kavuma |first=Richard |date=18 June 2007 |title=Special Report: Big Daddy and his women |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/specialincludes/ugprsd/amin/articles/amin8.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618171054/http://www.monitor.co.ug/specialincludes/ugprsd/amin/articles/amin8.php |archive-date=18 June 2007 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=The Monitor}}</ref> Malyamu was arrested in [[Tororo]] on the Kenyan border in April 1974 and accused of attempting to smuggle a bolt of fabric into Kenya.<ref name="life_and_loves" /><ref name="Amin_is_dead">{{Cite news |last=Kibirige |first=David |date=17 August 2003 |title=Idi Amin is dead |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/specialincludes/ugprsd/amin/articles/news1.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610010707/http://www.monitor.co.ug/specialincludes/ugprsd/amin/articles/news1.php |archive-date=10 June 2007 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=The Monitor}}</ref> In 1974, Kay Amin died under mysterious circumstances, with her body found dismembered.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kay Amin |url=http://www.biography.com/people/kay-amin-21075729 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725032835/http://www.biography.com/people/kay-amin-21075729 |archive-date=25 July 2016 |access-date=20 July 2016 |website=Biography (US) |publisher=A&E Networks}}</ref> Nora fled to [[Zaire]] in 1979; her current whereabouts are unknown.<ref name="Amin_is_dead" />

In July 1975, Amin staged a £2{{nbs}}million wedding to 19-year-old [[Sarah Kyolaba]], a [[go-go dancing|go-go dancer]] with the ''Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band'', nicknamed "Suicide Sarah".<ref name="Sarah_Amin">{{Cite news |last=Kalyegira |first=Timothy |date=14 June 2015 |title=Sarah Amin, 1954–2015 |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Sarah-Amin-1954---2015/-/689844/2750450/-/13xv1j3z/-/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814045045/http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Sarah-Amin-1954---2015/-/689844/2750450/-/13xv1j3z/-/index.html |archive-date=14 August 2016 |access-date=20 July 2016 |work=The Monitor (Uganda)}}</ref> The wedding was held during the [[Organisation of African Unity]] (OAU) summit meeting in Kampala, and the chairman of the [[Palestine Liberation Organisation]], [[Yasser Arafat]], served as Amin's [[Groomsman#Best man|best man]].<ref name="Widow_dies">{{Cite news |last=Nakajubi |first=Gloria |date=15 June 2015 |title=Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's widow Sarah Kyolaba dies in the UK aged 59 The dictator's former "favourite" ran a hair salon in north London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ugandan-dictator-idi-amins-widow-sarah-kyolaba-dies-in-the-uk-aged-59-10322083.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718172639/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ugandan-dictator-idi-amins-widow-sarah-kyolaba-dies-in-the-uk-aged-59-10322083.html |archive-date=18 July 2016 |access-date=20 July 2016 |work=The Independent |location=London}}</ref> Before she met Amin, Sarah was living with a boyfriend, Jesse Gitta; he vanished and it is not clear if he was [[decapitation|beheaded]], or detained after fleeing to [[Kenya]].<ref name=Sarah_Amin/> The couple had four children and enjoyed [[rallying|rally race driving]] Amin's [[Citroën SM]], with Sarah as navigator.<ref name=Sarah_Amin/> Sarah was a [[hairdresser]] in [[Tottenham]] when she died in 2015.<ref name=Widow_dies/>
[[File:The Late Idi Amin Dada's Presidential Car.png|thumb|Amin's Mercedes Benz that he owned between 1972 and 1979]]

By 1993, Amin was living with the last nine of his children and one wife, Mama a Chumaru, the mother of the youngest four of his children. His last known child, daughter Iman, was born in 1992.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Foden |first=Giles |date=4 August 2007 |title=Not quite a chip off the old block |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/aug/04/ukcrime.gilesfoden |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510150831/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/aug/04/ukcrime.gilesfoden |archive-date=10 May 2017 |access-date=11 December 2016 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref> According to the ''[[Daily Monitor]]'', Amin married again a few months before his death in 2003.<ref name="Amin_is_dead" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=16 August 2003 |title=The Idi Amin I knew |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3156011.stm |access-date=16 March 2023 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Amin fathered as many as 60 children.{{efn|A report in the ''Daily Monitor'' says he was survived by 45 children,<ref name="Amin_is_dead" /> while another in the BBC gives the figure of 54.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 August 2003 |title=Amins row over inheritance |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3179085.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420104409/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3179085.stm |archive-date=20 April 2008 |access-date=9 August 2009 |publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> Some members of his family estimated that he had near 60 children.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Draku |first=Franklin |date=20 April 2019 |title=Amin: Showy man-about-town and father of 60 children |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/people-power/amin-showy-man-about-town-and-father-of-60-children-1821034 |access-date=19 April 2021 |website=Daily Monitor}}</ref>}} Until 2003, Taban Amin (born 1955),<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 October 2006 |title=Son of Idi Amin threatens to sue 'Last King Of Scotland' producers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35 |work=Jet |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |page=35}}</ref> Amin's eldest son, was the leader of [[West Nile Bank Front]] (WNBF), a rebel group opposed to the government of Yoweri Museveni. In 2005, he was offered [[amnesty]] by Museveni, and in 2006, he was appointed Deputy Director General of the [[Internal Security Organisation]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mcconnell |first=Tristan |date=12 February 2006 |title=Return of Idi Amin's son casts a shadow over Ugandan election |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/1510313/Return-of-Idi-Amins-son-casts-a-shadow-over-Ugandan-election.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305121022/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/1510313/Return-of-Idi-Amins-son-casts-a-shadow-over-Ugandan-election.html |archive-date=5 March 2012 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref> Another of Amin's sons, Haji Ali Amin, ran for election as Chairman (i.e. mayor) of [[Njeru]] Town Council in 2002 but was not elected.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 January 2002 |title=Amin's son runs for mayor |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1740272.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827015803/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1740272.stm |archive-date=27 August 2011 |access-date=8 August 2009 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

Sarah Kyolaba's third child, Faisal Wangita (born in 1983 in Uganda; according to himself born in 1981 in Saudi Arabia) was involved in a brutal gang murder in [[Camden Town|Camden]], North London, in 2006. In connection with this, he was sentenced to five years' detention in 2007, for conspiracy to wound, conspiracy to possess offensive weapons and violent disorder. He had been convicted for possession of offensive weapons, theft and fraud in the years before.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 August 2007 |title=Idi Amin's son jailed for role in gang attack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/aug/03/ukcrime |access-date=4 November 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

In early 2007, the award-winning film ''[[The Last King of Scotland (film)|The Last King of Scotland]]'' prompted one of his sons, Jaffar Amin (born in 1967),<ref name="usatoday.com">{{Cite news |date=22 February 2007 |title=Idi Amin's son lashes out over 'Last King' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-02-22-amin-protest_x.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625145419/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-02-22-amin-protest_x.htm |archive-date=25 June 2012 |access-date=1 September 2017 |work=USA Today}}</ref> to speak out in his father's defence. Jaffar Amin said he was writing a book to rehabilitate his father's reputation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 February 2007 |title=Idi Amin's son lashes out over 'Last King' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-02-22-amin-protest_x.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919002453/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-02-22-amin-protest_x.htm |archive-date=19 September 2009 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=USA Today |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Jaffar is the tenth of Amin's 40 official children by seven official wives.<ref name="usatoday.com" />

Among Amin's closest associates was the Briton [[Bob Astles]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Jane |date=19 August 2003 |title=Uganda's white rat |url=http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=502&fArticleId=210731 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040125235821/http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=502&fArticleId=210731 |archive-date=25 January 2004 |access-date=8 August 2009 |work=Daily News}}</ref> [[Isaac Maliyamungu]] was an instrumental affiliate and one of the more feared officers in Amin's army.<ref name="bishop" />