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DICTATORS. PAST AND PRESENT. OMAR AL-BASHIR. SUDAN 1989 – Present 180,000 civilians killed in Darfur 2 Million driven from their homes Seized power in an Islamic coup Former General of the Sudanese Army – Age 62. KIM JONG-IL. North Korea 1994-Present Famine – 2 Million died
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DICTATORS PAST AND PRESENT
OMAR AL-BASHIR • SUDAN • 1989 – Present • 180,000 civilians killed in Darfur • 2 Million driven from their homes • Seized power in an Islamic coup • Former General of the Sudanese Army – Age 62
KIM JONG-IL • North Korea • 1994-Present • Famine – 2 Million died • 200,000 political prisoners • Nuclear weapons program • Age 63
SAYYID ALI KHAMENE’I • Iran • 1989-Present • Shiite Islamic • Shut down free press • Tortured journalists • Threatened US nuclear weapons • Age 66
HU JINTAO • China • 2004-Present • General Secretary of the Communist Party • 150 million Chinese - $1 a day • Gov’t censors tv, radio, mail, phone calls, faxes, e-mail, text messages • Age 63
THAN SHWE • Burma (Myanmar) • 1992-Present • Persecution of Ethnic minorities – Muslim • No freedom of speech, assembly or association • Military Police State • Age 72
ROBERT MUGABE • Zimbabwe • 1980-Present • 80% unemployment • 20% AIDS rate • Life expectancy 38 Years Old • Forced 700,000 from their home • Age 81
JOSEPH STALIN • Russia • 1922-1953 • 18 Million deaths • 10 Million exiled • Communist • USSR – leading industrial power
ADOLF HITLER • Germany • 1933-1945 • 10 Million – 6 Million Jewish • WWII • “Master Race” • Mein Kampf
BENITO MUSSOLINI • 1922-1945 • Italy • “Il Duce” • WWII • 400,000 Italians died • Allied with Hitler
MAO TSE TUNG • 1949-1976 • China • Communist Revolution • 14-20 million deaths Starvation “Great Leap Forward”
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC • 1989-2000 • Yugoslavia (former) • “Butcher of the Balkans” • 230,000 killed • 3 million displaced • Died while on trial (4 years) 2006 • Serbs “ethnic cleansing”