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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
In the end, per the movie (which opens with the "based on real events" title) it is this white doctor who eventually escapes Uganda to reveal to the world what a horrible man Amin was (as opposed to the eccentric buffoon most thought him). This is something of a slap in the face to Henry Kyemba, Amin's black health minister who managed to defect and did all the revealing in his 1977 book A State of Blood.
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Thanks, Alex, I did not know that. And it would have made for a more interesting movie. Having been in the dark about everything but the fictional nature of Garrigan, I just enjoyed it at face value.