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This ruler initially ignored pleas from Queen Elizabeth II to show clemency to the author of The White Pumpkin, Denis Hills. Leicester’s (“LEH-ster’s”) Clifton Packaging Company was founded by some of the 76,000 people fleeing an order issued by this man that deprived his country of 90 (20[1])percent (20[1])of its tax revenues. This member of the Kakwa people was nicknamed “butcher” for persecuting the Lango and Acholi ethnic groups. Eleven of this ruler’s (*) MiG (“mig”) fighters were destroyed during a rescue mission led by Yonatan Netanyahu, the Entebbe Raid. This one-time cook in the King’s African Rifles expelled his country’s Asian minority and came to power after overthrowing Milton Obote. For 10 points, name this man who ruled Uganda for much of the 1970s. ■END■

ANSWER: Idi Amin [or Idi Amin Dada Oumee]
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