[DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 25 | 1971: Idi Amin ousts Uganda president [PAR] General Idi Amin seizes power while President Milton Obote is away on a foreign 
... 25 January ... The general led a military coup while the president was out of the 
country ... Obote ousted the king and revised the constitution to make himself 
president. ... After the coup, he went into exile in Tanzania, from where he tried to
... [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin - Military Leader, President (non-U.S.) - Biography.com [PAR] Jul 8, 2014 ... Idi Amin was a Ugandan president known for his brutal regime while in power ... 
As President of Uganda, his brutality made many consider him the "Butcher of 
Uganda." ... leader in 1971 and declared himself president, and he remained in ... 
a meeting in Singapore, Amin staged a successful military coup. [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin - Wikipedia [PAR] Idi Amin Dada was the third President of Uganda, ruling from 1971 to 1979. Amin 
joined the ... He later promoted himself to field marshal while he was the head of 
state. ... He named his first-born son after himself. .... for misappropriating army 
funds, Amin seized power in a military coup on 25 January 1971, while Obote 
was... [DOC] [TLE] UGANDA LEADER REPORTEDLY OUT IN ARMY COUP - NYTimes ... [PAR] Jul 28, 1985 ... President Milton Obote of Uganda was overthrown today in a bloodless ... came 
up from the ranks of the army and fled to Tanzania after Idi Amin seized ... He 
said that if the army coup leaders took his advice, ''I will support them. ... On Jan. 
25, 1971, Colonel Amin deposed President Obote, who was on his... [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Feb 25, 2013 ... He claimed he was forced to join the Army during World War II, and ... seized 
power in a 1971 Ugandan military coup on 25 January 1971, ... On February 2, 
1971, one week after the coup, Amin declared himself president of Uganda, .... 
Amin styled himself His Excellency, President of Uganda, President... [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin File 1 - Uganda Missions [PAR] Kampala - Ex-President Idi Amin leading an opulent lifestyle in Jeddah still has ... 
Ugandans have made a lot of sacrifice under the NRM government to ... On one 
occasion, he run naked down a street in Nakuru, after being caught .... January 
25th 1971 had seen the coup that overthrew Milton Obote and brought in Idi Amin
. [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin Biography - life, story, school, mother, book, information ... [PAR] As president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, Idi Amin (c. ... As Amin grew he 
matched the qualifications for military service desired by the British at that time. [DOC] [TLE] Obituary: Idi Amin | News | The Guardian [PAR] Aug 17, 2003 ... He made himself president, with the rank of field marshal, and after eight years .... 
Amin took power, in the coup of January 25 1971, while Obote was attending ... 
Other leading figures were expunged in similar brutal circumstances, ... It now 
seems that two thirds of the Ugandan army's soldiers, out of a total... [DOC] [TLE] The Rise to Power of the Butcher of Uganda - Association for ... [PAR] ... Milton Obote, he staged a military coup and usurped the role of president on 
January 25, 1971. Five years later, he named himself president for life. ... of other 
ethnic groups, leading to the death of between 100,000 and 500,000 people. ... I 
made it a habit of stopping in there and having a couple of beers every night [DOC] [TLE] Israeli-Ugandan Relations in the Time of Idi Amin | Jerusalem ... [PAR] Oct 1, 2006 ... He spent a week in the country, meeting with leading figures who ... After he left 
for Sweden, the Foreign Ministry received a telegram from ... Israel made special 
efforts to forge ties with Uganda's ruling class. ... On 25 January 1971, President 
Obote was overthrown by a military coup led by General Idi Amin. [DOC] [TLE] President

Question: After leading a military coup on Jan. 25, 1971, he made himself president of Uganda
Answer: Idi Amin