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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject3/5/2003 5:48:23 PM
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The 10 Worst Living Dictators

Parade; New York; Feb 16, 2003; Wallechinsky, David;

Abstract:
Who are the world's most inhuman tyrants? A veteran international journalist gives his selections and tells why (with input from independent human-rights organizations that are willing to expose both left - and right - wing regimes, such as Freedom House, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch).

Examined were suppressions of freedom and speech and religion, freedom to choose elected representatives and to disagree with their government, and the right to a fair trial.

"Extra Credit" given to those dictators who torture, execute political opponents, cause their citizens to starve or to suffer malnutrition, and who interfere violently in the politics of countries other than their own.

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"By many independent accounts, these regimes are the most ruthless in denying their citizens freedoms and human rights that Americans take for granted."

1). North Korea - Kim Jong Il
2). Saudia Arabia - King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah
3). Iraq - Saddam Hussein
4). Liberia - Charles Taylor
5). Burma - Than Shwe
6). Equatorial Guinea - Teodoro Obiang Nguema
7). Turkmenistan - Saparmurad Niyazov
8). Libya - Muammar Al-Qaddafi
9). Cuba - Fidel Castro
10). Belarus - Alexander Lukashenko

Dishonorable Mentions (the preceding list does not include all of the world's dictators. Sad to say, the competition for the 10 worst dictators is stiff...):

*Sudan - Amar al-Bashir
*Zimbabwe - Robert Mugabe
*Syria - Bashar al-Assad
*Laos - the leaders of the People's Revolutionary Party of Laos
*China - Hu Jintao
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