The Lord of War - Evil Dictators

A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil

Dictators, as defined in the dictionary, is a person who rules with utter supremacy, and usually uses force to get their way

Dictators usually go for the government system called “communism”, which is an unrestricted political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless civilization by all the affiliates of that society.

I am happy to live in a democracy because I feel we have the rights and freedom to speak, write, and express views. You can say what you want but doesn’t mean anyone listens to it.  Everyone always says this is a free country, but I feel we also have our restrictions as well.

The 20th century brought us some of the world’s most powerful and rich dictatorships. While most followed a straightforward recipe of murder, terror, and genocide, the following managed to plunder the nations they had taken control of in ways that boggle the mind

I have spent a considerable amount of time researching dictators and have come up with an official top 5. Finding estimates on some of these guys is near impossible.

Anyway Enjoy:

5. Idi Amin

Uganda  1971 – 1979

Death Toll – 300,000

Movies based on Idi Amin – The last King of Scotland

Idi Amin was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army prior to taking power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.

Two-thirds of the army's 9,000 soldiers were executed by Amin during his first year in power. In total, he killed around 300,000 people.

In 1972, Amin expelled the country's 40,000-80,000 Indians and Pakistanis in the closing months of the year, reportedly after receiving "a message from God" during a dream

During 1975 he staged a publicity stunt for the world media, forcing white residents of Kampala to carry him on a throne then kneel before him and recite an oath of loyalty

Near the end of 1976, Amin officially declared himself "the uncrowned King of Scotland". (despite the fact that the proper name for the title is King of Scots) Amin lavished his guests and dignitaries with Scottish accordion music, while dressed in Scottish kilts.

In January 1979, Nyerere mobilised the Tanzania People's Defence Force and counterattacked, joined by several groups of Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). Amin's army retreated steadily, and despite military help from Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, he was forced to flee into exile by helicopter on 11 April 1979 when Kampala was captured. He escaped first to Libya where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for his staying out of politics.

4. Slobadan Milosevic

Yugoslavia, 1992-99

Death Toll 400,000

Movies Based on Slobdan Milosevic: None.  But there are movies based on the war: Behind the enemy lines and The Hunting Party

Yugoslavia was the name of a country made up of six states located in the Balkans region of Eastern Europe. Each state represented different ethnic groups.After the fall of Communism in 1989, Bosnia and Croatia, two of the six states, decided to break away from Yugoslavia and become independent. The break-up of Yugoslavia caused three different wars.
Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia at that time, wanted to keep all the states under his control, so he went to war with them. However, Milosevic did not fight the clean fight.
When Milosevic was president, he had a plan for a Greater Serbia, which meant a state for Serb people. The Serbs are a distinct ethnic group, with their own language and religion.
As the former Yugoslavia states split apart, Milosevic developed a plan for a Serb-only state that was similar to what Hitler sought to do in Germany.
Slowly, thousands of non-Serbs living in Yugoslavia disappeared. Many were killed, and their bodies later discovered in mass graves throughout Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Non-Serbs, lucky not to be outright killed, were fired from their jobs and kicked out their homes. Their homes and jobs were given to Serbs.
When Milosevic stepped up his plan to slaughter all the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo, NATO, an international force led by the United States, launched air strikes to stop him.
In 1999, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days, destroying roads, bridges and utilities. The bombing stopped after Milosevic backed away from his plan.
In October 2000, the people of Yugoslavia voted Milosevic out of office.



Mr Milosevic faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged central role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s. He also faced genocide charges over the Bosnia war.

He was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal

3.Adolf Hitler

Germany - 1934 to 1945

Death Toll: 17 Million

Movies Based on Hitler: The Boys from Brazil. Movies based on World War 2: The Great Escape, Saving Private Ryan and Das Boot

He was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was the absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945. He gained support by promoting values like German nationalism and anti-semitism. Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and began the Third Reich. Hitler was power hungry as all hell, hated the shit out of Jews (and others), and wanted  hegemony in Europe. The militarization that was needed to complete such a lofty goal led to the outbreak of World War II. Nazi forces engaged in the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, an estimated six million of whom were Jews, and 1.5 million Romanis.

Hitler’s role in this dark era of history will likely never be forgotten and neither will his quiet elimination of several million Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, and the handicapped in what we now call the holocaust. This was quite literally murder on an epic scale, on the battlefield, in the concentration camps and on the streets.

Were it not for the holocaust, Hitler might have been forgiven for the war and remembered as a great general in the same way as Napoleon. He might even have been patted on the head for having a really good go at world domination and given a sticker reading ‘I tried my best.

2.Jozef Stalin

USSR  1932-39

Death Toll: 23 Million

Movie based on Stalin: Red Terror

Joe Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union which time he killed or exported millions of ethnic minorities, oversaw the starvation of thousands of his own people and sent anybody who even looked at him the wrong way to labour camps. Still, he did kick the crap out of Nazi Germany. That’s something to thank him for. Although the establishment of the Eastern Bloc in it’s place was not so much of an improvement.





Stalin oversaw a massive overhaul of the soviet economy, industry and agriculture. The resulting disruption, however, was the cause of mass starvation in the Ukraine. There the situation was so extreme that reports of cannibalism spread. Without a doubt the darkest component of Stalin’s regime, however, was his ‘great purge’ which killed an estimated 700,000 people. The majority of those killed in the purge were ordinary citizens. This attempt to purge the nation of traitors, spies and even potential radicals meant that even uttering the word capitalism could have you sent to the gulag to be worked, starved, beaten or shot to death.

1.Mao Zedong

(China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)

Death Toll:  49 to 78 Million

Mao was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist, and communist leader who led the People’s Republic of China. Mao, while controversial, is still widely considered a savior of the nation.  During  his first five years from 1949 – 53 he is said to have systematically killed between 4 to 6 million people by sentencing them to die or by sending them to “reform through labor” camps. He organized mass repressions, established execution quotas, and defended his actions in these early years as necessary for securing power for “The People’s Republic of China”.



His social programs the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are two of the most ill-fated, poorly named, initiatives ever. The first was an effort to rapidly industrialize China. His focus was on making China a premier exporter of steel, and to this end he asked everybody to make  it. The problem was it got many citizens to make smelting shops in their backyards. Not only was the steel of little value, but it was made from everything lying around the house including their own cooking supplies! Without the tools to make food, no money coming in from the steel, and no money to survive ~ a lot of people starved to death. The estimates on this program alone are 20 million deaths! 

His policies and political purges from 1949 to 1976 caused the deaths of 49 to 78 million people.

Above guys were sick, but there were many more sick dictators about.

Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)

Death Toll  8,000,000

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)

Death Toll 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)

Death Toll  1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)

Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)

Death Toll  1,700,000

Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)

Death Toll  1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)

Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)

Death Toll 1,500,000

Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)

Death Toll 1,000,000

Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)

Death Toll 900,000

Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)

Death Toll 800,000

Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII)

Death Toll 300,000

Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)

Death Toll 600,000

Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996)

Death Toll 220,000

Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)

Death Toll 70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians)

Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)

Death Toll 30,000

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority)

Death Toll 20,000

I can keep going on but the list will never stop

Sources

·  Charny (1988) Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review

·  Stephane Courtois: Black Book on Communism (1995)

·  Matthews: Guiness Book of Records (2000)

·  Clodfelter: Warfare and Armed Conflicts (1992)

·  Elliot: Twentieth Century Book of the Dead (1972)

·  Bouthoul : A List of the 366 Major Armed Conflicts of the period 1740-1974, Peace Research (1978)

·  R.J. Rummel: Death by Government - Genocide and Mass Murder (1994)

·  Matt White's website

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

http://akorra.com/2010/03/04/top-10-most-infamous-dictators-in-history/

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

http://www.oddee.com/item_90544.aspx
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