
Ali Fadhul (1940-2 November 2021) was a Ugandan general and politician during the reign of military dictator Idi Amin.
Biography[]
Ali Fadhul was born in eastern Uganda in 1940 to a Nubian Muslim family, and he was forcibly recruited by the King's African Rifles in 1953 at the age of 13. He went on to serve in the military of an independent Uganda under President Milton Obote before taking part in the 1971 coup which overthrew Obote. Fadhul headed the Simba Battalion from 1971 to 1974, and he served as Governor of the Northern Province, Minister for Provincial Administration from 1974 to 1979, and Ugandan Army Chief of Staff from March to April 1979 during Idi Amin's dictatorship. He was one of Amin's last loyalists during the Uganda-Tanzania War of 1978-1979, after which he was arrested, convicted of murder, and sentenced to 22 years in prison, before being pardoned by President Yoweri Museveni in 2009. He died in 2021 at the age of 81.