The World Dictators of Today and the Dictators from Yesterday

By Hassan Thakuru, (Reference Source: All Mystery) 12 May 2006

The concept of Dictator is (from lat. speaking, the imperious) originally a political office of old Rome. In crisis periods a dictator was appointed by the consul with approval of the senate and had enormous power in state and army (summons emporium). To him all the other City Councils were subordinated with the exception of the people's tribunes. His rule was limited to 6 months. It was also assigned for magisterial quantum.

Confessed Roman dictators were Cincinnatus, Fabius Maximus, Sulla and Gaius Julius Cäsar who was appointed to the dictator on lifetime.

The concept benevolent dictator understands a dictator to whom the welfare of his people is really important. Indeed, the history has shown that practically dictators are never benevolent.

One understands a dictator in the modern sense a ruler in a dictatorship who rules with unrestricted, absolute power. Signs of a dictatorship are the absence of free choices and coarse and systematic injuries of the human rights by the government.

Under pretended resort on the antiquity dictators like Mussolini, Hitler and Franco as a ruler in the European fascism played a significant role, likewise in Latin America Pinochet, Anatasio Somoza Debayle.

Benito Mussolini: Italian 1922-1943 responsible for torture, executions, deportations, concentration camps, corruption, and press censorship.

Josef Stalin: The Soviet Union in 1927-1953 responsible for 15-40 million humane lives, torture, executions, deportations, gulag-penal camps, and press censorship.

Rafael Trujillo: The Dominican Republic in 1930-1938, in 1942-1952 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship.

Antonio de Oliveira Salazar: Portugal in 1932-1968 responsible for torture, executions, and press censorship.

Adolf Hitler: German empire in 1933-1945 responsible for 50 million humane lives, torture, executions, the Holocaust, euthanasia program, deportations, press censorship and the second world war.

Francisco Franco: Spain in 1939-1975 responsible for torture, executions, press censorship and Spanish civil war.

Kim Il Sung: North Korea in 1948-1994 responsible for torture, executions, press censorship and Korean War.

Mao Zedong: China in 1949-1976 responsible for Cultural Revolution, " big jump forwards ", torture, executions, and deportations 35 to 50 millions.

Francois Duvalier: Haiti in 1957-1971 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship.

Anastasio Somoza Debayle: Nicaragua in 1963-1979 responsible for approximately

20,000 human lives torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship

Mobutu Sese Seko: Zaire in 1965-1998 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship.

Haji Mohamed Suharto: Indonesia in 1966-1998 responsible for corruption, press censorship and having close ties between dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi Libya.

Jean-Claude Duvalier: Haiti in 1971-1986 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship.

Jean Bedel Bokassa: The Central African Republic in 1972-1979 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, and press censorship

Ferdinand Marcos: The Philippines in 1972-1986 responsible for electoral forgeries, corruption, and press censorship.

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte: Chile in 1973-1990 responsible for torture, executions, deportations, press censorship, and caravan of the death.

Nicolae Ceausescu: Romania in 1974-1989 responsible for torture, executions, corruption, press censorship, Cighid (passive euthanasia), and economic need.

Pol Pot: Cambodia in 1975-1979 responsible for 1.5 to 2 millions humane lives,tortures, executions, and press censorship.

Fidel Castro: Cuba in 1976- responsible for tortures, press censorship.

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom: Maldives 1976- responsible for tortures, executions, corruption, electoral forgeries, deportation, ethnic cleansing, using national army as a private militia, civil unrest, arbitrary arrests, press censorship having close ties between the dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein and economic need.

Saddam Hussein: Iraq in 1979-2003 responsible for 300000 to 2 million humane lives, tortures, executions, press censorship, the first gulf war, the second gulf war, and the third gulf war.

Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Zimbabwe in 1984- responsible for tortures, executions, and press censorship.

Slobodan Milosevic: Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1989-2000 responsible for Balkan conflict.

Franjo Tudjman: Croatia, Yugoslavia in 1990-1999 responsible for Balkan conflict.

Aleksander Lukashenko: Byelorussia in 1994- responsible for tortures, censorship.

Other dictators:
Fulgencio Batista (Cuba) Chiang Kai-shek (the republic China) Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran) Kim Jong Il (North Korea) Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algeria) Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola) Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan) Jigme Singye Wangchuk (Bhutan) Hassan Al Bolkiah (Brunei) Than Shwe (Burma) Hun sen (Cambodia) Paul Biya (Cameroon) Francois Bozize (Central African Republic) Idriss Deby (Chad) Hu Jintao (People's Republic of China) Joseph Kabila (the Democratic republic Congo) Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea) Isayas Afewerki (Eritrea) Lansana Conte (Guinea Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) Askar Akajew (Kirgisistan) Khamtai Siphandon (Laos) Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya (Mauritania) Qabus ibn Said (Oman) Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) Hamad am Khalifa al-Thani (Qatar) Paul Kagame (Rwanda) Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Omar Al-Bashir (Sudan) Mswati III (Swaziland) Baschar al-Assad (Syria) Emomali Rachmonow (Tajikistan) Muammar al-Gaddafi (Libya).