[Global] One of Africa's three major tyrants, Idi Amin of Uganda, once tasted human flesh and said it was too salty.

Media reports have disclosed that former Ugandan President Idi Amin once cruelly murdered and dismembered one of his wives. On another occasion, upon discovering that his mistress had a boyfriend, he brutally killed the man on the spot, then cooked and ate his body! A European journalist once asked Amin if he had really eaten human flesh, to which Amin replied, "Human meat is too salty, it doesn't suit my taste."

In 1966, Amin was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and became the Deputy Commander of the Ugandan Armed Forces. On January 25, 1971, taking advantage of President Obote's absence during an overseas visit, Amin launched a military coup and declared himself president.

Amin officially had 36 sons and 14 daughters. As for how many illegitimate children he had, that remains unclear—perhaps they were too numerous to count. He had 13 wives. One of them, whom he considered "disobedient," was executed, dismembered, and placed in a bag. Later, he ordered her remains to be taken out and displayed on a table so that his children could witness the consequences of disobedience.

To deal with supporters of former President Obote, Amin employed extremely terrifying methods. He sentenced "dangerous" officers to death. Former Army Chief of Staff Brigadier Sulaiman Hussein was imprisoned and later beaten to death with rifle butts. Hussein's head was transported back to Amin's luxurious palace in Kampala, where Amin kept it in a freezer, occasionally retrieving it to admire and "converse" with his deceased enemy.

Following Amin's orders to punish "traitors," anyone accused of being an "Obote guerrilla" was publicly executed. Before being shot, victims were stripped naked, their eyeballs gouged out, and hundreds or even thousands of people were forced to watch at the execution grounds. During Amin's eight-year rule over Uganda, at least 300,000 Ugandans were killed under his command.

Amin once boasted, declaring himself King of Scotland. Another time, he proclaimed Uganda as the geographical center of the Earth and suggested that the United Nations relocate its headquarters to Uganda. For reasons unknown, Amin harbored a secret admiration for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Once, he sent a telegram to the Queen saying, "Dear Queen, if you want to know what a real man is like, come to my capital, Kampala." On the Queen's birthday, he made an outrageous request, asking her to send him her old underwear as a gift.

On April 11, 1979, under the attack of the Ugandan National Liberation Front, Kampala was captured by insurgents. Amin fled in his plane to Libya, where he was sheltered by Muammar Gaddafi. Later, he also lived in Iraq before finally settling into exile in Saudi Arabia.