Irish: Na deachtóirí maireachtála is measa

This is a list of the bad current and former reigning dictators worldwide

1. Kim Jong Il, North Korea (1994)
The amount of debate recently over nuclear weapons development in North Korea managed to deflect people from the fact that Kim government represses its people more completely than any other living dictator. North Korea has, for 31 years, was at the bottom of Freedom House ranking for political rights and civil liberties. The final steps in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom ranking also. Considering the State of Human Rights are approximately 150,000 Koreans performing forced labor in prison camps of political dissenters and their families. Contrary to popular belief, Kim Jong Il is actually very smart and effective manipulator of his people. He is also the author of the book On the Art of Cinema, and the Art of Opera.

2. Than Shwe, Burma (who came to power in 1992)
General Than Shwe survived a power struggle emerged as sole leader of Burma's military dictatorship. Because of his hard-line views, he took on already poor human rights situation to a level worse. Burma has more child soldiers than any country in the world and continues to kidnap the Burmese regime to force citizens to serve as porters for the military in conflicts against non-Burmese ethnic groups. In 1990 the party won the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi 80% of the vote in an open election. The military canceled the results. Suu Kyi has spent most of the years since then under house arrest. 31 May, 2003 hired thugs attacked Suu Kyi's motorcade, killing several of his supporters and dozens of others including Suu Kyi herself arresting. Shwe is a very private figure, preferring to work in the background. Therefore, know that even the Burmese people very little about it.

3. Hu Jintao, China (came to power in 2002)
Trained as a hydraulic engineer, Hu Jintao joined the Communist Party in 1964 and spent the next 38 years working his way up the hierarchy. Serving as Party Secretary of Tibet, he did not hesitate to administer martial law and to supervise the killing of unarmed demonstrators. Now it is the Secretary General of the Communist Party of China, Hu, while not all-powerful, the leader unusually repressive regime. Communist party still controls all media, and uses 40,000 internet security agents to monitor online use. More than 200,000 Chinese serving sentences re-education labor camps and China performs more than 4,000 death each year, more than all the other nations of the world together, and many of them in for crimes without violence.

4. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe (came to power in 1980)
Mugabe began his reign with widespread international and national support. After successfully leading anti-colonial war of liberation, was elected first president of an independent Zimbabwe. But over the years demonstrated a more dictatorial tendencies. According to Amnesty International, in 2002 alone, the government killed or tortured 70,000 Mugabe. Unemployment is over 70% and 500% inflation. Mugabe is accused of blocking the delivery of food aid to groups and areas that support the main opposition party. He is to hold elections, but there are restrictions on the opposition's ability to campaign and the media description is not supported with. When winning opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai 42% of the vote, Mugabe he was arrested and charged with treason. Mugabe has also confiscated farms owned by white people and turned them over to his supporters.

5. Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia (came to power in 1995)
Crown Prince Abdullah is the acting leader of Saudi Arabia since his half-brother, King Fahd, suffered a stroke in 1995. Saudi Arabia is one of the nation but that no elections held any. The royal family has promised municipal elections soon but has not announced whether women will be allowed to vote. In fact, it is prohibited to unrelated Saudis of the opposite sex to appear in public together, even inside a taxi. Women are not allowed to testify on their own behalf in divorce proceedings and, in each case, the court, the evidence that the man is equal to that of two women. According to the US State Department, Saudi Arabia continues to engage in arbitrary arrest and torture. In the human rights conference in 1995, Saudi authorities arrested non-violent protesters who were demanding freedom of expression. Some were later flogged, the usual penalty for political and religious offenses alleged. In a very unusual show of power, forbade religious kids from playing with Barbie dolls, which they dubbed 'Jewish dolls' are 'symbols of Western decadence of the perverted'.

6. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (came to power in 1979)
This was a small West African nation (population 500,000) dictatorship to forget large oil reserves found in 1995. Since then, US oil companies have poured billions of dollars into the country. Although the per capital annual income of $ 4,472, 60% of Equatoguineans live on less than $ 1 per day. Goes most of the oil revenue directly to President Obiang, who confirmed that there is no poverty in Guinea, rather that the people who used to live in a different way. In July, the radio announced that Obiang said that "in permanent contact with the Almighty," and that "He can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell. " There is no public transport, no newspapers, and only takes 1% of government spending on health care. When asked why so many of the nation's oil money deposited into her personal account at the Riggs Bank in Washington, DC, Obiang explained that it retains full control of the money to 'avoid corruption'.

7. Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan (came to power in 1989)
Sudan, the largest country in Africa, among the 20-year civil war that claimed complicated the lives of 2 million and another 4 million uprooted. Al-Bashir seized power in a military coup and immediately suspended the constitution, the legislature abolished and banned political parties and unions. It has tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the main rebel group, but it insists that the nation is ruled by Islamic Shari'a law, even in southern Sudan, where the people are Christian. His regular army bombed civilians massacred and tortured and non-Arabs, especially in oil-producing areas in the south. It has a long history of providing refuge for a wide variety of terrorists, but to oppose. He turned over the notorious Carlos the Jackal to France in exchange for financial and military aid and, in 1996, he tried unsuccessfully to sell Osama bin Laden on the US government.

8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan (came to power in 1990)
Since taking charge of the former Soviet republics in central Asia, Niyazov's personality cult developed world is great, but challenged by Kim Jong Il. Niyazov picture appears on all money Turkmen, have statues of him everywhere, and he renamed January itself. A book, The Soul Book, required reading in all schools at all levels, and require each government employee memorize part of it to keep their jobs. Niyazov rules unopposed. As he said, 'No opposition parties, so how we can grant them freedom? ". In recent years, Niyazov has cracked down on religious and ethnic minorities, including Russians, and refused exit visas for families to grant women under 35. He is imprisoned political dissidents and are subject Stalin show trials -style and public confessions. Turkmen constitution requires retirement at age 70, but Niyazov ensured its own rule to create the 2,507-member People's Council unanimously elected him Chairman of Life.

9. Fidel Castro, Cuba (came to power in 1959)
The longest reigning dictator, Castro took advantage of the world's preoccupation with the war in Iraq in March and April 2003 to carry out the most round-up of non-violent dissidents in more than a decade. arrested 75 human rights activists, journalists, and academics, and send them to jail for an average of 19 years. Cuba remains one party state with all of the power in the hands of the Castro. The courts are controlled by the executive branch (in other words, Castro). He traditionally blames all the problems of the US country.

10. King Mswati III, Swaziland (came to power in 1986)
The Swaziland (population 1.2 million) is the last absolute monarchy in Africa remaining. Mswati III ascended the throne when he turned 18, four years after his father's death. Because he was educated in England it was thought that he would modernize the kingdom. However, he has shown a particular liking for Swazi traditions. September 15, 2002 he watched thousands of girls and young women dance bare-breasted in the annual Reed Dance and then select one of his wife tenth (his father had 100 wives). The girl's mother filed a lawsuit against the king, charged with abducting her daughter. Mswati, who rules by decree, then announced that Swazi courts were barred from ruling limited the king's power to issue. In an effort to appease international opinion, Mswati approved drafting new constitution to replace the one that had suspended his father 30 years earlier. But the new constitution bans political parties, allows the death penalty for any criminal offense, and provides for the re-introduction of debtors prison '.

As always, stay safe!

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