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tyrants despots and strongmen basically
leaders who manipulate elections
silenced the press and stamp on civil
liberties that are considered by many to
be dictators and that are still in these
positions of power as of mid 2017
number 10 Rodrigo Duterte the Republic
of the Philippines
Duterte isn’t a dictator as such at
least not yet according to some sources
but he does describe himself as a quote
dictator against evil before being
elected in 2016 the President of the
Philippines promised that his presidency
would be a quote bloody one and compared
his war against drug users and dealers
to the Holocaust as mayor of Davao City
he would reputedly drive around on his
motorbike looking for criminals to kill
a real-life Punisher hey kid about field
and Ziggler there are three of them as
president he’s urged police and
vigilantes to emulate him resulting in
the deaths of over 7,000 alleged
criminals and street children he says
he’s willing to declare martial law
nationwide to combat Islamist militants
in the southern islands number 9
Alexander Lukashenko Belarus nicknamed
Europe’s last dictator Lukashenko has
ruled Belarus since 1994 having amended
the Constitution to remove limits on
presidential terms in a changing world
Lukashenko clings to Soviet social and
economic policies describing his
leadership style as quote authoritarian
early 21st century elections have been
suspect in 2010 police beat up and
arrested several of the other candidates
Lukashenko has praised Hitler’s quote
firm Authority and once remarked that
it’s quote better to be a dictator than
gay Phylicia epidermal usha by dictator
and voluminous ‘no but he’s
perhaps most notorious for his social
parasite tax which forced the unemployed
to pay the government for not working
however it was suspended in March of
2017 number 8 l homme i leave
azerbaijan via leaves have ruled
oil-rich Azerbaijan for decades
president l homme a leave took over the
reins from his father in 2003 and has
continued a tradition of what’s
considered a corrupt and authoritarian
rule while in power the family has
amassed a massive fortune through
backroom business deals in 2009 a leave
abolished presidential term limits and
in 2017 made his own wife vice president
election so far have been questionable
in 2013 a smartphone app released
results a day before the polls opened
political dissidents faced systematic
police abuse that includes the detention
and torture of activists and journalists
number seven Teodoro Obiang and gamma
and beso go Equatorial Guinea Obiang has
been president of Equatorial Guinea
since 1979 when he out stood his uncle
and had him executed following a
military coup his regime is ruthless and
has been accused of torturing and
killing political dissidents and
fostering a cult of personality around
the president opponents claim that he
skins his enemies alive and eats their
testicles brains and livers
state-operated radio meanwhile has
declared him a god in constant contact
with the Almighty his bank account has
certainly been blessed Obiang has
accrued a fortune of 600 million dollars
u.s. number six Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe
once an anti colonial revolutionary
Mugabe is now a controversial leader
whose governs in Bob way since 1980
first as Prime Minister and later as
president during a crackdown against
dissidents in the 1980s his notorious
5th brigade an elite armed force trained
by North Korea murdered over 10,000
people Mugabe has received international
criticism for land seizures from white
farmers and observers claim that early
21st century elections involved
intimidation violence and
fraud not that it matters much as he
rewrote the Constitution to give himself
almost unassailable power and he is not
afraid to use it
number five issei issei fouette key
Eritrea another freedom fighter who
became a dictator he sais F wet key has
been the president of Eritrea since 1993
a one-party state with no Free Press
Eritrea has been called Africa’s North
Korea for its self-imposed political
isolation and totalitarian leadership
the UN accuses Africa’s government of
widespread human rights abuses including
forced labor torture raped by state
officials and extrajudicial executions
in order to escape persecution and
mandatory military service thousands of
eretrians attempt to flee the country
every year but soldiers patrolling the
borders have orders to shoot to kill
number four reject iiep air Dewan turkey
after a failed coup in 2016
air Dewan declared a state of emergency
and arrested thousands of military
personnel public servants and
journalists in massive purchase he then
used the momentum to grant himself
sweeping new executive powers air Dewan
has been steering turkey away from
modern democratic and secular ideals
since being elected prime minister in
2003 and president in 2014 in 2013 he
was implicated in a corruption scandal
involving billions and sought to block
access to social media to limit the
damage is he a dictator so far a thin
veneer of democratic process prevails
but air diwan’s leadership is
increasingly authoritarian and
repressive number three Bashar al-assad
Syria
it was once hoped that this former eye
doctor would initiate democratic reforms
unlike his father Syria’s president
before him but when the Arab Spring
sparked mass protests around the country
Assad’s alleged brutal crackdown on
protesters propelled the country into a
devastating Civil War that’s seen over
400,000 casualties as of 2017 Assad has
had thousands of suspected dissidents
imprisoned
tortured and executed survivors report
being electrocuted raped and having
their nails torn out with pliers some
are children
Mossad has also been accused of using
chemical weapons in the conflict
including chlorine bombs and sarin gas
number 2 Kim jong-un the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea also known as
North Korea supreme leader of North
Korea Kim jong-un inherited the title
from his father Kim jong-il after his
older half-brother who would advocated
reform was passed over what’s more he is
widely suspected to be behind his
half-brothers 2017 assassination Kim
jong-un presides over what’s deemed a
totalitarian police state that exerts
complete control over the media
defectors carry stories of public
executions massive prison camps and
forced abortions his government is
developing nuclear weapons and its
threats against South Korea and the u.s.
are increasingly aggressive number one
Omar al-bashir Sudan the first sitting
president to be indicted by the
International Criminal Court Omar
al-bashir took power in a military coup
and has allegedly directed a campaign of
ethnic cleansing and rape that has
included children in Darfur the conflict
began when rebels attacked the
government whom it faulted for
oppressing non Arabs in response al
Bashir began arming the Jinja weed a
militia of nomadic Sudanese Arabs the UN
estimates the resulting death toll at
some 300,000 while breezing through
controversial elections and expelling
human rights organizations al Bashir is
alleged by ICC prosecutor Luis
moreno-ocampo
to have pilfered a fortune of up to nine
billion dollars u.s. do you agree with
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iron fists welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 worst dictators that are
still in power
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
tyrants despots and strongmen basically
leaders who manipulate elections
silenced the press and stamp on civil
liberties that are considered by many to
be dictators and that are still in these
positions of power as of mid 2017
number 10 Rodrigo Duterte the Republic
of the Philippines
Duterte isn’t a dictator as such at
least not yet according to some sources
but he does describe himself as a quote
dictator against evil before being
elected in 2016 the President of the
Philippines promised that his presidency
would be a quote bloody one and compared
his war against drug users and dealers
to the Holocaust as mayor of Davao City
he would reputedly drive around on his
motorbike looking for criminals to kill
a real-life Punisher hey kid about field
and Ziggler there are three of them as
president he’s urged police and
vigilantes to emulate him resulting in
the deaths of over 7,000 alleged
criminals and street children he says
he’s willing to declare martial law
nationwide to combat Islamist militants
in the southern islands number 9
Alexander Lukashenko Belarus nicknamed
Europe’s last dictator Lukashenko has
ruled Belarus since 1994 having amended
the Constitution to remove limits on
presidential terms in a changing world
Lukashenko clings to Soviet social and
economic policies describing his
leadership style as quote authoritarian
early 21st century elections have been
suspect in 2010 police beat up and
arrested several of the other candidates
Lukashenko has praised Hitler’s quote
firm Authority and once remarked that
it’s quote better to be a dictator than
gay Phylicia epidermal usha by dictator
and voluminous ‘no but he’s
perhaps most notorious for his social
parasite tax which forced the unemployed
to pay the government for not working
however it was suspended in March of
2017 number 8 l homme i leave
azerbaijan via leaves have ruled
oil-rich Azerbaijan for decades
president l homme a leave took over the
reins from his father in 2003 and has
continued a tradition of what’s
considered a corrupt and authoritarian
rule while in power the family has
amassed a massive fortune through
backroom business deals in 2009 a leave
abolished presidential term limits and
in 2017 made his own wife vice president
election so far have been questionable
in 2013 a smartphone app released
results a day before the polls opened
political dissidents faced systematic
police abuse that includes the detention
and torture of activists and journalists
number seven Teodoro Obiang and gamma
and beso go Equatorial Guinea Obiang has
been president of Equatorial Guinea
since 1979 when he out stood his uncle
and had him executed following a
military coup his regime is ruthless and
has been accused of torturing and
killing political dissidents and
fostering a cult of personality around
the president opponents claim that he
skins his enemies alive and eats their
testicles brains and livers
state-operated radio meanwhile has
declared him a god in constant contact
with the Almighty his bank account has
certainly been blessed Obiang has
accrued a fortune of 600 million dollars
u.s. number six Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe
once an anti colonial revolutionary
Mugabe is now a controversial leader
whose governs in Bob way since 1980
first as Prime Minister and later as
president during a crackdown against
dissidents in the 1980s his notorious
5th brigade an elite armed force trained
by North Korea murdered over 10,000
people Mugabe has received international
criticism for land seizures from white
farmers and observers claim that early
21st century elections involved
intimidation violence and
fraud not that it matters much as he
rewrote the Constitution to give himself
almost unassailable power and he is not
afraid to use it
number five issei issei fouette key
Eritrea another freedom fighter who
became a dictator he sais F wet key has
been the president of Eritrea since 1993
a one-party state with no Free Press
Eritrea has been called Africa’s North
Korea for its self-imposed political
isolation and totalitarian leadership
the UN accuses Africa’s government of
widespread human rights abuses including
forced labor torture raped by state
officials and extrajudicial executions
in order to escape persecution and
mandatory military service thousands of
eretrians attempt to flee the country
every year but soldiers patrolling the
borders have orders to shoot to kill
number four reject iiep air Dewan turkey
after a failed coup in 2016
air Dewan declared a state of emergency
and arrested thousands of military
personnel public servants and
journalists in massive purchase he then
used the momentum to grant himself
sweeping new executive powers air Dewan
has been steering turkey away from
modern democratic and secular ideals
since being elected prime minister in
2003 and president in 2014 in 2013 he
was implicated in a corruption scandal
involving billions and sought to block
access to social media to limit the
damage is he a dictator so far a thin
veneer of democratic process prevails
but air diwan’s leadership is
increasingly authoritarian and
repressive number three Bashar al-assad
Syria
it was once hoped that this former eye
doctor would initiate democratic reforms
unlike his father Syria’s president
before him but when the Arab Spring
sparked mass protests around the country
Assad’s alleged brutal crackdown on
protesters propelled the country into a
devastating Civil War that’s seen over
400,000 casualties as of 2017 Assad has
had thousands of suspected dissidents
imprisoned
tortured and executed survivors report
being electrocuted raped and having
their nails torn out with pliers some
are children
Mossad has also been accused of using
chemical weapons in the conflict
including chlorine bombs and sarin gas
number 2 Kim jong-un the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea also known as
North Korea supreme leader of North
Korea Kim jong-un inherited the title
from his father Kim jong-il after his
older half-brother who would advocated
reform was passed over what’s more he is
widely suspected to be behind his
half-brothers 2017 assassination Kim
jong-un presides over what’s deemed a
totalitarian police state that exerts
complete control over the media
defectors carry stories of public
executions massive prison camps and
forced abortions his government is
developing nuclear weapons and its
threats against South Korea and the u.s.
are increasingly aggressive number one
Omar al-bashir Sudan the first sitting
president to be indicted by the
International Criminal Court Omar
al-bashir took power in a military coup
and has allegedly directed a campaign of
ethnic cleansing and rape that has
included children in Darfur the conflict
began when rebels attacked the
government whom it faulted for
oppressing non Arabs in response al
Bashir began arming the Jinja weed a
militia of nomadic Sudanese Arabs the UN
estimates the resulting death toll at
some 300,000 while breezing through
controversial elections and expelling
human rights organizations al Bashir is
alleged by ICC prosecutor Luis
moreno-ocampo
to have pilfered a fortune of up to nine
billion dollars u.s. do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
you
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