Idi Amin was a great leader in the political veiw. He announced that he was suspending certain provisions of the Ugandan constitution and soon instituted an Advisory Defence Council composed of military officers with himself as the chairman. Amin placed military tribunals above the system of civil law, appointed soldiers to top government posts and parastatal agencies, and informed the newly inducted civilian cabinet ministers that they would be subject to military discipline. In his first year as president Amin ordered massacres of  large numbers of Langi and Acholi troops who were suspected of being loyal to Obote( the former primeminister of Uganda over thrown by Idi Amin). After Amin's demands for large increases in military assistance were rebuffed by Israel and Britain, he expelled all Israeli advisers in 1972 and turned to the Arab Republic of  Libya, which gave him immediate support. In doing so, Amin became the first black African leader to renounce ties with the Jewish state of Israel and sided, instead, with Islamic nations in the Middle East. Subsequently, Amin made a number of anti-Semistic declarations, including praising German dictator Adolf Hitler for killing Jewish people during World War II.

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