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Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.


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Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.


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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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I'll tell you what colonial experience is.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


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