Life As Idi Amin's Son (Children of Dictators Documentary) | Real Stories
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2023
- More than 30 years after the tragic events the son of Idi Amin meets the son of Oboth Ofumbi in Uganda and the most unpredictable journey of their lives begins... They leave Kampala for Kidepo National Park as they currently work for the same businessman who is planning to turn of Idi Amin's megalomanic dreams into reality: a huge hotel in the game park. After traveling day and night they arrive at the park. In the next few days, they go on safaris to discover the park, visit the structure of the hotel and most importantly start sharing their memories with each other from their childhood to the tragedy... Eventually, Ofumbi's son invites Amin's son to his family ranch where a tribal, religious and family reconciliation takes place with Muslim, Christian and local community leaders according to African traditions.
Children of Dictators presents some of the most influential dictators of the 20th century through the eyes of their children and relatives. The documentary series shares rarely-seen personal perspectives of history and offers a deeper understanding of the most feared leaders in the world, while focusing on the portraits of their children. The filmmakers worked without a crew and just two small broadcast cameras, giving them exclusive access to children of dictators, namely Lucia Pinochet in Chile, Jaffar Amin in Uganda, Bettina Goering in Germany and Fidel Castro's daughter in Miami.
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Very eloquent well mannered well spoken gentlemen discussing such a heavy topic and finding the peace that their parents couldn't.
When I saw the title , I almost didn’t click on because frankly I been tired of seeing videos of Jaffer trying to present his father as a martyr and defend his personality. We don’t even know him as an individual, outside of him living in the shambles of his father’s shadow . Amin almost killed my father . He arrested him , but for the intervention of people in his command that my father had been good to who helped him escape , I would be an orphan today . The grace that the late ofungi’s son has displayed has moved me beyond words . This is what humanity should look like . Thank you guys for this documentary.
Leadership is tricky. Uganda was at its infancy when amin came to power and as a primitive soldier he had fears. On his behalf i beg as an African please forgive him. He just did what he thought was to be done. Otherwise he had Uganda at heart.
I guess you are meaning Hussein Lumumba. Jaffar has been appreciative of what people say.
Babangida and Mamman Vatsa's case study.@@banyakolemulenga7072
Jaffar is a gifted actor. This is a performance.
Amin had a friend of mine from Uganda father killed.
Watching this, it makes you realise that that these are 2 people reliving the lives they knew with the men who were their fathers, who loved them, they adored them. Juxtaposing the legacies they left behind versus this warm other side of how their families endured losing them is something to behold. Really well directed and recorded. Through no fault of their own, but this his their truth, their lived reality 🙏🏾
20:20 on everything 😿😿😿
What legacy?Western media told you they were dictators just because he decided to fight for his people and African at large. Please learn you "Real History" and stop learning from what the West told you. He is one of the Jewels of Africa,i have done my research.Do yours
An enthralling documentary on how powerful reconciliation can be. Godspeed to both of them.
As a Ugandan, this kind of reconciliation is what we need.
Thanks to Jaffar & Godfrey for telling this entire story differently.
Lots of love from a true Ugandan, born and raised in Pallisa, Uganda, Africa.
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We from somalia need it too pray for us
This 1 of the best well filmed and summarized documentaries Ive watched here.A very good story with a nice ending.''Forgiveness and reconciliation".In an original African way
There are a lot of people that never watched the movie because the title "The Last King of Scotland" wasn't intriguing or eye catching... but for the ones that just stumbled across it and watched it, it was so intense, outstanding acting and the fact that this is a movie based on a real person was mind blowing! Half of us probably didn't even know that these things actually happened before watching the movie. This was a horror story. This man was a Monster.
Thanks. Will have to look for it. Where is it streaming?
You’re so right. And an amazing movie.
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It was European propaganda. Idi Amin was not a monster or cannibal.
What is has to do with this film?
Tragedy on both sides. To the Ofumbi family for their loss and to the Amin family for living with the burden of that tragedy. I commend Jaffar for having the courage to carry that burden. - Madaraka Nyerere
Amazing documentary so sad some parts but so uplifting also. It's so applicable to war torn places across the world and the aftermath for the people involved. I feel for the children of both families both with heavy weights on their shoulders for different reasons. So many strands to this story.
Seeing my late father and remembering that Oboth Ofumbi Benz brought back memories of Pajwenda. Forgiveness heals
As a young boy in primary school, I picked up and read a book from my dad's shelve, titled The State of Blood written by a Uganda former minister Henry Kyamba who served under Idi Amin. I still remember events and persons in the book like Kay Amin, Entebbe Airport raid by Israeli forces, the Kabaka dynasty of Buganda, OAU summit, Milton Obote and his troops, Ankole and Acholi ethnic groups, expelling of the Indians and Asian people, etc. Watching this video and connecting the dots and reflections on what I read over 40 years ago is emotionally draining. The two families are really courageous to reconcile and make reparations. Thank God, Mama lived in good health to witness this day. May the souls of the dead departed rest in peace. Amen 🕯️. 🇬🇧 🇳🇬
I've been looking for that book for years. I've read Uganda holocaust but I heard state of blood gives a more detailed account of how brutal amin and his state research henchmen were. Hope I get to read it someday.
@@akwesiboachie Very true account of events by a participant and top government official. The book has lots of pictures and can easily be turned to a beat selling video.
Henry Kyemba died a few days ago. His book was great
@@g.a5127 😭😪. May his soul rest in peace🕯️ 🕊️. Scholars never die as their thoughts and writings continue to guide the living long after the have gone.🇬🇧🇳🇬
I understand the book was a propaganda tool by anti-Amini group.
What articulate gentleman they are. It's so refreshing to see two people come together and empathise with each other and sort their differences out wuth love and respect. Props to them.
Articulate?
@@lutaayamYes, articulate.
Facts❤
This was really moving.... both of their fathers caused great distress to many many others
This documentary was touching indeed. May the living God bless the two families. To God be the Glory.
The power of forgiveness! It sets both the victim and culprit free. What a wonderful initiative by Amin's son Jaafar to seek forgiveness and reconciliation on behalf of his father. Kudos to both families.
It's different when victim and culprit were both complicit in commiting crimes against innocent people before their fall out.
@@citizen63zw I get you but forgiveness remains the key thing nonetheless.
The power of forgiveness. This is quite touching and eye wetting. I pray for peace to the two families. I pray for peace in Africa. This is the true spirit of Ubuntu. I am because we are.
This is the most emotionally moving documentary I have watched till date. What a great work.
Wasn't expecting to be moved watching this, reconciliation and forgiveness is truly a powerful force.
As a South African I have learnt to also see things through another's eyes. Jeffer is not Idi Amin but only his son.
Also another view can be that Idi Amin felt very betrayed when the name of his best and trusted friend was mantioned in a plot to overthrow him.
We must not forget that also Ofumbi was main strategist in Idi Amin's regime.
His wife and children fully know this and they acknowledge it.
That is why Jeffer Amin offered a sincere apology and it was readily accepted. And the tiles covering his father's name were removed.
May peace and love be with the Ofumbis and the Amins. May all Africans find peace one day.
Very powerful message. In our country South Africa, our father Mandela taught us to forgive but not to forget.
@@Honeybee897 Yet Mandela framed, and imprisoned Kgosi Mangope.
@@james-yg9cgThis is unnecessary
I was young when Idi Amin (Jean-Claude ["Baby Doc"] Duvalier, Ferdinand Marcos/wife Imelda, and other major dictators) was in power, and I remember hearing through the grown-ups and newscast the things he and other folks did. I tell people all the time reputation, integrity, and legacy is everything. Here we are decades later witnessing the affects of the past and how it has shaped the lives of two men, their children, families and all of Uganda.
Man what a journey these 2 went on together. Around 39:00 talking about seeing the body really showed me the honorable character of these 2 men. Amazing documentary.
This was amazing. Thank you! Looking forward to more
Very emotional and inspiring I kept dropping tears, this is a story of forgiveness and change . No discrimination and no avenging. Just pure love and respect
This is a soul touching event and a moment of unstoppable remembrance but best to have a unify Uganda 🇺🇬 God bless you guys, we have lot of these stories in Liberia 🇱🇷 Africa needs to wake up and move. Thank fir this documentary.
While at Makerere University, I was in Mulungushi club and this Amin's son was invited alongside Obote's son to talk to us in a Pan-Africanist talk. Wow, two incredible men.
please sir permit me to ask you this question. Is this the son Idi Amin made general?
@@AgborTakorPius I can't tell, Mr. AgborTakor
No, I think he was called Mwanga Amin not Jaffer.
Revising for my final semester exams I had to pose and watch this. Very emotional video with many lessons to me. Thank you.
It is really tuff for the sons to meet up like this, to remember their lives before turmoil and to accept that one's father caused the death of another's.
This is quite the documentary.
I don't really have any words to express how profoundly I am affected.
Same 🤣🤣
I know Godfried Oboth Ofumbi. Was my best pal in school in Kenya. I vividly remember the day he and his brothers received that tragic news of their father's death. Godfried is a gentleman and I respect his calm demeanor.
Was that St Andrew’s School in Turi ?
Idi’s son said he hadn’t heard such suffering from anyone before. Apparently he never listened to the families of hundreds of thousands up to a million of other people who had family members murdered under idi, nor has he taken the time to listen to the millions of survivors who weren’t killed but tortured and horrifically suffered under idi. Instead he just runs around idealizing his dad as a great man and wants to build a hotel in honor of him. That hotel should be cursed for what his dad did!
I agree . Well said
Yeah, we shouldn't carry the shame of our parents but just a modicum of understanding could have gone a long way - I think he must have been high the whole time. He just seems so out of sync.
Ask yourself if you would have behaved differently in his shoes.
@@graceomakada5082 I definitely would have behaved differently. What he is doing is completely inconsiderate, to say the least, of millions of people that suffered unimaginably because of his father.
There’s no way i could just dismiss everyone’s suffering with a joke and a smile and rub their faces in the trauma by saying i am going to honor the man who tortured and killed by building a hotel on their land to honor this vile, evil man. I couldn’t do that.
I can’t even imagine the shame and disgrace I would feel knowing my father was responsible for the BRUTAL, sadistic murders of up to a million people leaving countless children without a parent. I would feel that shame but he has no shame. Instead he said he wants to leave a “legacy” in “honor” of his dad.
What is his dad’s legacy? It is being a dictator on the same scale as hitler, mao, stalin, pol pot, etc. He goes in the same category as all these monsters. He wasn’t a man to be remembered by the public with honor. He was evil. Pure evil!
The man in the video who lost his father lived a very privileged life of wealth and luxury but the majority of the people who were left without a father would only have sent them from being poor to abject poverty. The damage idi did goes far beyond just the torture and murder. He caused terror, psychological damage, and economic impoverishment to so many people. And his son like his dad doesn’t give a hoot! I would care and in the very least to show some respect for the people I wouldn’t flaunt my murderous dictator dad in their faces. I absolutely would not do that. I am not that kind of a person.
@@stst77 It's a lot easier said than done when you have not lived that experience. Those 2 men were innocent children when their dad committed attrocities. Amin was a monster but he was a great father to his children. The memories of their father they have are of love,etc. So they perceive their father differently. I'm sure you would do the same.
If you listen to Amini's son word by word, you will get the deep secrets on how people can be implicated in issues and how narratives can be changed
Very interesting piece to watch, thanks for posting.
It's difficult to empathize with either one of them. Their father's were both responsible for an evil regime that opressed their own Ugandan people. There is no honour amongst thieves. You can hear from their stories how they all went off some where else to Kenya, England, Switzerland externalising money that should have developed that country. No sympathy especially as I'm seeing the same thing happening in Zimbabwe. No sympathy for the ruling thugs that have no empathy for their own people.
As a wife seeing the father of your children and provider of your family killed is traumatic and unimaginable..having the strength to raise the family and have the grace to forgive and resilience to adapt..wish closure and peace for the whole family
There is no closure. We can lie through our teeth in front of cameras and say we forgive etc....thats nonsense
She is the star of the story, she looks like a peaceful woman
There is closure, jt depends on you. Some people can never forgive but a lot do
@@meldawilliams1636 Well, I am yet to see those who have forgiven for real.
The documentary should re made. It should be full HD and With best old scenes it should have more people hurt and people that servived.
Thanks For the best real stories that are shown thanks for the people in the documentary for making it.
This is very touching given that I know the people in the story. It's a lesson that we should never take power for granted or get obsessed and lost in it. The decisions we make when in power affects many people in a very profound way. May God bless all the families.
This documentary is so emotionally driven
I am old enough to remember Idi Amin. He was a monster.
According to the media of the time.
In the 70s, I met people who had fled Uganda. They left everything behind. My first experience meeting refugees was at that time.
I'm sure u live or lived in Uganda during his time.n I hope the media is not your source of conclusion about him.
You know what media told you, all the atrocities committed on his regime were committed by m7 and his fellows.
If you want to know the real monster is M7, am speaking this with experience
He was a great man who stood up against western imperialism.
Idi Amin’s son has an admiration for his dad which is understandable but knowing the monster he was it’s stomach churning 🤦🏾♀️
Everyone wants their family members to be remembered in the best light possible.
But if you find yourself arguing that your family member was only responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, not hundreds of thousands, you should probably take a step back and reflect on the point you’re actually trying to make.
WOW i am looking forward to watching this soooo much . There are whole generations around the world who are too young to know what this "man " did !!
Profound... This is a true definition of forgiveness.. It leaves you with a warm feeling in your heart despite the pain.. May these gentlemen continue to be a shining example of love and forgiveness.
So touching! Great production,well researched.
These story has touched my heart alot. This world is beautiful when we reconcile and forget our past and focus on the present and future.
As a Ugandan, this is very very very good. Mi Love
'The son of the murderer and the son of the victim working together' that hits different
Wow!.....this is the most moving documentary I've ever watched. I had to pose at some point and put myself in Jaffer Amins shoes (it's not easy). May peace prevail among the families that were affected both directly or indirectly and lets love one another as brothers and sisters
Very moving,...a mad man in absolute power,..frightening 😮
This documentary is stunning.
Great documentary. At the end of it all, love wins 🏆
Such an amazing thing to see. Thank you
Wow! This was powerful to see. I’m glad I clicked to watch this bc these are the conversations we should all have to heal ourselves and the world 🌍
i appreciate this, but am still shedding tears for all the damage done.
Very touching, Jafar Amini.....has a big heart, its not easy to present yourself on behalf of your father wrong doings. Its not easy at all...we cant change the past but the past can refine us and make us One Africa again!!!!
I personally think that Amin's son is romanticizing his father's leader ship role a little bit too much. I understand his love for his father, despite the kind of person he was, but I don't think I would feel some type of way if I had a parent like that.
Agree - Idi Amin evil man.
Majority Ugandans regard him as their best president there most patriotic leader.
That's your "opinion" doesn't make you right
@@thisislaflaretv5250 Damn right it's my opinion. You don't have to like mine like I don't have to like yours. I'm gonna speak on it if I want to regardless 🤣🤣
@@brivonn1580 Good we agree on something. Next?
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very powerful.
Bless them and their families. These two men show you can rise above your raising. I hope that everyone takes an example to these people. Forgive, never forget, and become great by being humble and good.
That mother and her son are courageous .... no putting bitterin their heart..the community too..I haven't seen people like them...bravo
Very interesting, is this a series, if so where is it & what's it called?
What a powerful documentary on reconciliation and placing conspiracies/rumours to perspective.
Ofumbi is as guilty as idi Amin. The difference is idi Amin is the one that killed him.
I agree. And they come out on TV claiming peace etc. Its nonsense.
Idi’s son seems very cheerful
Charismatic but step on his pride and see his father come out. His father could come across as cheerful too. Hitler could come across as tender hearted and caring. I am sure every evil dictator has had this same magnetic charisma to put them in a place of absolute power.
I don’t trust his son at all for him to want to “ leave a legacy “ for his evil dad. His dad didn’t just kill people, he tortured innocent people unspeakably. He was pure evil yet his son wants to memorialize him as some great man.
@@stst77 careful, we are all capable of the greatest evils and kindest acts, he's not his father.
Wow.. unbelievable story!😔
This is beautiful, responsibility, understanding, unity, love. 🌹
Idi Amin left a legacy which was a burden to the Kakwa people. The Kakwa people were mostly simple farmers and had nothing to do much with the politics of Uganda given where they were located at that time. Growing up in exile, I always felt guilty and embarrassed by the things that Amin was accused of doing when he was in power. This is by the simple fact that I was born to the same tribe. I remember very well waking up one day in 1979, most people had already crossed the border to Zaire known now as DRC with their animals and belongings and some were returning to take more as the Tanzanian mobilized soldiers were trailing the army of Amin retreating. The conversation was that Idi Amin had been overthrown/lost the war, and as Kakwa we had to leave. I could not understand the reasons but rumors and gossip were rampant. They said, that because he was a Kakwa, they were coming for us. Looking back, I do not make sense of it but I guess the elders and people had a sense of what is yet to come. Anyway, I wish he was alive because I would like to hear his story from him. I wanted to understand the years the Kakwa people suffered in Exile in his name by the simple fact, he is a Kakwa. You see, Amin unlike other leaders in Africa who made sure they developed the place of their birth, Amin never built a hospital, schools, roads, etc in his own area of birth. I can only imagine what would have happened to the Kakwa people had they not run away from their area for so many years only to return some due to the instability in South Sudan's war of liberation and also the war in DRC back to Uganda. To his children, maybe you can shed light on what he took responsibility for before his passing about what he actually did in Uganda.
Thank you for not dying with this piece of history,, Very nice. And I repeat, Ugandans speak the best English in Africa. very articulate..hahaaha
Does Idi even know this man? If he has 60 children, he couldn’t have had close relationships with many of them
Interesting piece yet so sad.....plus I can relate to the ofumbi's language as a Kenyan luo......
I wish we could learn this process of healing. So real story telling and making your voice heard. This is healing
Iddi Amini he was very humble man , a patriot man, a man who loved his country. Other stories are just propaganda. He is our hero.
I am South African of Indian descent and i must say i was moved by the reconciliation of these young men.Like they said we cannot change what happened but we must learn from the wrongs of the past.I l lived through Apartheid in South Africa and saw evil and pray we never experience that again.God bless Africa.
WOW PRODUCER IS ON TOP OF IT, THANKS JAFFER AND OFUMBI JN
Father like son a very theatrical man
Both of their fathers were monsters.
This is heart breaking. How could a person do this to another? The sin's of the father, we can never, ever out run them.
This is powerful two resl men with brokem hearts for each other's pain and guilt...... friends ship for life may the good Lord take away thier pains amd thier shame and guilt
I'm grateful for this documentary. I can see the friendship these men have built within themselves.
I can only hope that each one of us ever comes to such an understanding that these men have shown here.
Love to both of them
Long Live Uganda 🇺🇬 ❤
That was a great documentary. A good ending. I salute the son of the former President of Uganda Id Amin for the courage of asking for forgiveness. That's what we need in Africa. To the Ofumbi's son, you are a true hero. When i come to Uganda, i would like to visit that church. Where is the Church?
Grew up watching rise and fall of Idi Amin and saw this stories. was really very touching to watch this
We African needs to stop fighting each other and safe our country and others countries around Africa. and family, peace all over Africa
Thanks for the positivity, i have learnt alot. Reconciliation was my best part. I hope to visit the family when i come to Tororo. God bless you
One of the best reconciliatory documentary I ever watched
Put cameras in front of people, pay them and they will lie all they can. You can't tell me its all forgiven and everyone has found peace.
I. agree, and I'm not even African...
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This is the African way. You never punish the children for the father's sins.
@@vmat6684 Not the whole of Africa. Many times I have heard the phrase ,"Sins of our fathers" or th eson of a snake is a snake.
@isaymymind1727
True, but there are cultural rituals that are done to cleanse the past, just like in this documentary. African societies believe in community and rehabilitation or reconciliing with the past. This is because they have an innate knowledge of the effects generational trauma on present and future descendants
This Amin's son has heart of humanity
Wow this is really full of emotions😢
One can see they GREW UP with a SILVER SPOON
Omg! I love these two guys, they should be emulated, too much hatred among Africans. Idi Amin's son is a sociable personality like his father.
All those material things that were the driven factor for the violence and pain inflicted upon their families are now obsolete but human relationship endures. My respect goes to these men for taking the steps to bury the past and move on, that is love. ❤️
I agree ♥️. This really shows Africa's uniqueness.
Nice documentary..sometimes the background music is distracting
I can't stop crying this is so Powerful 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
At 28:15 she spoke facts....man when my dad died i knew the responsibilities i was gonna incur. It is tuff man.
Education is really important, these guy speak so well, if you didn't see their faces and heard them talk you would think they were British or American.
Thanks to both families thanks for the reconciliation thanks for the understanding on both families sad and and lovely documentary
EMOTIONAL.....deeply moving . This is the power of love, mercy, forgiveness and humanity. Tears
Indeed Africa is unique and it's wonders shall never end. May peace reign in Uganda!
Amazing ❤
Grate documentary
Am glad i watched thich
Inrespective of the the stories he heard about his father or the things he saw himself, his father is still an hero to him
Idi Amin was good man, may God give him peace. 90 percent of Ugandese love him. He just wanted migrants to leave his country as your country doing to migrants now. Migrants from Uk are taken to Rwanda. Idi said just leave go anywhere.
One other suggestion please, make use of the banner to note people's names and who they are. One is left having to figure it out while new people are introduced.
Very heavy stuff, mixed with a rollercoaster of emotions. 😮☹🤔😢 Realistically, there are no right or wrong answers in addressing such an epic, sordid past & legacy, probably due to the ongoing ramifications. Sadly, bitterness & vengeance corrupt & cannot just be destructive, but self-destructive too. May all who suffered personally and their children's children find peace & a sense of acceptance to move on. Equally, may the children who also carry the burden of the sins of their fathers also find peace. In my own small corner, I'll dedicate today to pray for all affected/concerned. And l shall meditate on my own actions, for the greater good of my children, family, clan, and for humanity. The struggle continues world wide, particularly, in African politics. We need to srtive for a change of mindset/360 degrees turnaround from the home to public life. Thanks for a very soul-searching documentary.