LONDON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- One of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's wives told a newspaper Monday her husband was actually jolly and kind.
In a London interview with the Mirror, Sarah Amin, Idi's fifth wife, called him a "true African hero" and a "wonderful father." She is mother of four of the 43 children he claimed to have fathered.
Sarah, 47, went into exile with him in 1979 but has gone her own way for the past 20 years -- 12 of them spent in London.
She said she has not seen Amin since 1983, but they spoke often on the phone about their children, whom he doted on.
Amin died of kidney failure Friday in Saudi Arabia.
By various reports, he murdered more than 300,000 of his own people between 1971-79, and expelled 50,000 Asians with 90 days' notice.
He also boasted of eating human flesh and allegedly kept human heads in the freezer.
