Ex-Dictator Idi Amin Is in a Coma

An ailing Idi Amin, whose eight-year presidency of Uganda is remembered for the torture and killing of more than 200,000 people, was in a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital Sunday, medical staff there said.

Amin, who is believed to be 80 years old, was in critical condition and on a respirator at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jidda, staff members said. He was admitted to the hospital Friday.

A hospital official told Associated Press late Sunday that the former Ugandan leader’s condition had stabilized.

Amin, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia, had been suffering from high blood pressure.

The ex-dictator has been in a coma since his admission to the hospital and was in the intensive-care unit. Three of his sons were by their father’s bedside Sunday.