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“I am not a politician but a professional soldier. I am therefore a man of few words and I have been brief throughout my professional career.”
Source: First public statement after seizing power, Radio Uganda, January 1971 (as quoted in The New York Review of Books, 1976)
Context His first statement after seizing power from Milton Obote in a military coup; his eight-year rule that followed was marked by mass killings.
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