World's worst dictators
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Muammar Gaddafi has been the leader of Libya since a coup in 1969. Described as one of the most exotic national leaders in the world, Gaddafi has ordered his forces to crush an uprising that has rocked his four-decade-long rule for the past week, warning armed protesters they will be executed, and vowing to 'fight to the end'.
Omar al-Bashir has been the President of Sudan since 1989 when he led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government. Al-Bashir has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur, and was the first head of state ever indicted by the International Criminal Court, as well as the first to be charged with genocide.
Turkmenistan's President For Life Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow took over the running of the East Asian nation when the former President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov died in 2006. Compared to the tyranical measures of his predecessor, Berdimuhamedow has been seen as a 'great reformer', however Turkmenistan still ranks third behind North Korea and Burma on the global index of press freedom.
Yahya Jammeh has been the dictator of The Gambia after taking control of the country in a bloodless military coup in 1994. In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink poisonous concoctions under Jammeh's orders.
Islam Karimov has been the first President of Uzbekistan since 1990. The Karimov administration has been criticised for financial corruption and human rights abuses, torture (including reports of boiling people to death), media censorship, and fake elections.
Kim Jong Il is the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth largest standing army in the world. He is the centre of an elaborate personality cult with North Korean schools deifying both him and his father, and many North Koreans believing that he has the magical ability to control the weather based on his mood.
Alexander Lukashenko has served as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994.
Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has emerged to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line with international law and whose regime is considered to grossly violate human rights.
Since he began his presidency, Belarus has never held a poll seen as fair by international monitors, and the country is referred to as “the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe”.
King Mswati III is the King of Swaziland and is generally considered to be one of the last absolute monarchs in the world, as he has the authority to appoint the country's Prime Minister, members of the cabinet, and the judiciary. Some of his controversial measures have included an announcement in parliament in 2000, that all HIV-positive people should be "sterilized and branded".
Robert Mugabe has been the President of Zimbabwe since 1987. Western governments have condemned Mugabe's rule, approving economic sanctions to be levelled against him, and accusing him of conducting a "reign of terror" and criticising his appalling economic mismanagement, corruption, and brutal repression.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is the President of Equatorial Guinea, having served since 1979. Most domestic and international observers consider his regime to be one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and undemocratic states in the world. Equatorial Guinea is essentially a single-party state. Abuses under Obiang have included unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; systematic torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life threatening conditions in prisons and detention facilities; impunity; arbitrary arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention.
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