State Department cables from the State Archiving System (SAS), dealing with General Idi Amin and Uganda. After joining the Ugandan army in 1962, when the colony gained independence from Britain, he quickly rose up the ranks to commander of the armed forces in 1966. While in the colonial army, Amin became a Ugandan heavyweight boxing champ. The following year, he was made effendi (warrant officer), the highest rank possible for a Black African in the Colonial British army. Amin was promoted to corporal in 1952, and to sergeant in 1953. Later he was deployed in Kenya as part of the 21st KAR infantry brigade against the Mau Mau rebellion until 1949, when his unit was deployed in Somalia to fight the Shifta, who were raiding cattle. Amin took part in the British campaign to prevent the independence of Burma. Amin joined the King's African Rifles (KAR) of the British colonial army in 1946. In the 1940's Amin was recruited by a British colonial army officer. In time he was to be known as Idi Amin Dada.
His name at birth is disputed among researchers. Idi Amin was born in the 1920's in the West Nile Province.
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