The Commonwealth Games debut of Idi Amin’s grandson ended in ignominy and disgrace as the boxer was disqualified in the third round for head-butting his English opponent – and then launched a bitter verbal assault on the referee
Things then took an even more bizarre turn as Aziz Abdul, a 25-year-old from Uganda, refused to speak to a journalist afterwards because of what he had written about the tyrannical dictator.
“No, not you,” Abdul told the man from the Press Association. “I don’t like you.” A Ugandan team official quickly clarified: “It is because of the things you said about his grandad.”
Amin is estimated to have killed half a million people in Uganda after coming to power in a coup d’état in 1971, and also forced the expulsion of 80,000 people of Asian descent.
However, Abdul insisted before his super-heavyweight fight with the 21-year-old Damar Thomas from Kilburn that his grandfather’s achievements “had inspired me” and “I am so proud of him”.
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