October 1 1975 idi Amin made a dangerous speech
The Amin Speech That Shocked The World. On October 1, 1975, in New York, for the first time in UN history, the pan-Africanist president opted to address world leaders in an African language: the Luganda dialect. During a visit to the United Nations, Ugandan President Idi Amin urged Americans to "rid their society of the Zionists." In a long statement to the General Assembly presented in the presence of President Amin by his chief delegate to the UN, Khalid Younis Kinene, he claimed that the United States had been "colonized by the Zionists." President Amin stated in a statement read by the Uganda delegate that he wanted the world to know that Africans were not just against "colonialism, neocolonialism, and Zionism," but also against hunger and other societal issues. President Amin sat in a beige armchair on the rostrum as Uganda's chief delegate read the lengthy statement in English. According to a translation, Amin stated that he did not want to c...
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