A more annoying piece of moral relativism I have rarely seen. The white British crew wallowed in the typical "it was their colonial past that done them in" gibberish. That ten years passed from independence from Great Britain and Idi Amin's coup and that the ethnic/racial tensions inside Uganda played a major role in the blood bath that was Uganda in the 70's and 80's seems never to cross their minds. Hardly a bad word is spoken about Amin in the entire program except for the case of a son of one of Amin's victims who in my opinion was the most literate and least pretentious of anyone interviewed. Most of the Ugandans spoken to seem to suffer from the same sense of kitsch admiration that you often see to day Russia and China regarding Stalin and Mao.
But all of this is not half as annoying as Forest Whitaker's constant search for mitigation in the blood thirsty career of the tyrant. Here is a little example from USAToday...
A half-million countrymen were slain during Amin's reign of terror in the 1970s, but the actor found a man who was more than a monster. Whitaker told New York magazine: "He was responsible for major atrocities, but he also reshaped opportunities for people in his country. He was a person who was colonized, and he stood up to colonialism. And he was demonized for many things, but partly for standing up."
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