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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mark Staniforth

Idi Amin’s grandson vying for boxing medal at Commonwealth Games

Idi Amin was the brutal military dictator of Uganda who killed up to 500,000 people - (Getty Images)

The grandson of Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator and self-proclaimed “King of Scotland”, is vying to progress into the medal rounds of Commonwealth Games boxing competition in Glasgow on Wednesday.

Aziz Abdul, known as ‘Ringo’, is not shy of his family connection to Amin, a brutal military dictator who seized power in 1971, killing up to 500,000 people and expelling Uganda’s entire Asian population before he was deposed and sent into exile eight years later.

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