Did Sathya Sai Baba give secret instructions to Despot Idi Amin?

THIS [MANIPULATED] IMAGE INDICATES THE ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP

In a discourse held on Christmas Day (2007) Sathya Sai Baba was most affirmative about his meetings with the brutal despot and Dictator Idi Amin (on Christmas Day of all days of the year!). Idi Amin was a known and self-confessed murderer who had at least five wives and 23 children (plus hundreds of ‘lady friends’), who fed enemies to crocodiles, reportedly kept some of his victims in his deep freezer, and - according to persistent reports of his staff who escaped - even tasted human flesh! One can see the man himself tell how he knew who to eliminate among his opponents [click here]One story about Sai Baba and Idi Amin circulated in the Sai movement during the near two decades when I was the national leader for Norway in the Sathya Sai Organisation. This was that Sai Baba had gone to stay with a Mr. Patel (in Uganda) and not least so he could meet Idi Amin and tell him to postpone the extradition of Asians (mostly Indians) from Uganda for one year. It was said that those few Indians who were devoted heeded Sai Baba’s alleged warning to them and supposedly left without losing their possessions, others left later and lost most or all they had. However, this does not fit with the dates or any known facts at all. There is no reliable testimony to support the story… nor could I get any sensible, consistent answers from some Indians who were Sai followers whom I met in London in the 1980s who had fled Uganda.Sathya Sai visited Kampala and met Amin in 1968, while he was head of the Ugandan Army and a well-known figure, but this was about three years before Amin came to power and got in a position to expel the asians! Not long after he usurped power in a military coup, Amin suddenly announced that he would send all Asians (most of whom were Indians) packing from Uganda within 90 days, causing untold sufferings to many of them. He famously claimed that God had instructed him to do this in a dream! Sai devotees who dream frequently of Sai Baba have not commented on this, and one may guess why! The rumours about Sai Baba’s intervention and Amin’s postponement of the event is yet another of the many myths and stories which multiply and spread around Sai Baba [and very often by him in the privacy of interviews] by his blind believing followers. See more on Idi Amin from a journalist who met him here http://home.chello.no/~reirob/idi/amin.htm#saiami

See also “The Last King of Scotland” - God’s orders and Sai Baba at http://barrypittard.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-last-king-of-scotland-gods-orders-and-sai-baba/