Who are the top ten dictators in the world? Dictators monopolize state power, practice autocratic rule, disregard the safety of the people, and put their own will and interests above the law; this article takes stock of ten dictators who have committed outstanding crimes since modern times, including Vidira, Hitler, Hideki Tojo, Park Chung-hee, Hussein, Pol Pot, etc.
1. Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, fuehrer of Germany in 1933, was the military dictator of Nazi Germany. On September 1, 1939, he invaded Poland, setting off the prelude to the European theater of World War II, occupying 14 European countries from 1939 to 1941, and turning Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia into their vassal states. During the war of aggression, Hitler preached fascism, ultra-nationalism, anti-communism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism, and the Second World War caused the loss of 35 million people and the genocide of 6 million Jews.
2. Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo, who became Prime Minister of Japan in 1941 and a representative of Japanese militarism, was one of the three fascist leaders in World War II, along with Hitler and Mussolini. Because of his arbitrariness and fierceness, he was known as the "Razor General" in the Kwantung Army. As one of the main initiators of World War II, he placed the main battlefield in China, Korea and other countries, and committed heinous crimes such as the Nanjing Massacre. While suffering the people of other countries, he also sneaked into Pearl Harbor, triggering a Pacific war with the US military. While commanding the occupation of vast expanses of land such as Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, it devastated 150 million people.
3. Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Vidira, Argentine military dictator, in 1976, as commander-in-chief of the Argentine armed forces, organized a coup d'état by right-wing soldiers to overthrow the government led by Isabelle Perón, established a military junta, proclaimed himself president, and became one of the leaders of the military government that ruled for a long time in Argentina's modern history. During his tenure, he killed opponents of the junta, left-wing guerrillas and democratic progressives, and created white terror through kidnappings, assassinations, torture, and so on.
4. Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein, in 1979, became president of Iraq and prime minister of Iraq. On September 17, 1980, Saddam Hussein abrogated the Algiers peace agreement with Iran, and then sent troops to Iran to provoke a war between the two countries, which lasted for nearly eight years and was the most protracted and brutal regional conflict of the 20th century after World War II. Delaying economic development plans for the two countries for at least 20 to 30 years, Iraq has 180,000 deaths, 250,000 injuries and direct losses of $350 billion. Iran has been even more devastated, with 700,000 deaths and more than 1.1 million injuries, and Tehran alone has lost 200,000 women with husbands and $300 billion in direct losses.
5. Pol Pot
Pol Pot became Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976. Pol Pot was a far-leftist who collectivized agriculture during his administration, forcibly drove all city dwellers to rural collective farms to work, and ordered the massacre of dissidents. Under his rule, the currency was abolished, but the communist ideals were not realized, but instead caused the total collapse of the country's economy. In addition, the "Khmer Rouge massacre" he launched during his administration caused more than 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia. Today, to commemorate the end of the Holocaust, January 7 is a public holiday in Cambodia every year, known as "Massacre Passover Day".
6. Yahya Khan
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan became Chief Military Officer of Pakistan in 1969 and then President. In the 1970 Pakistani general election, sheikh Mujib Rahman, leader of the Awami League of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), won. Yahya Khan did not approve of this, and used force to suppress it, the Pakistani army killed at least 300,000 Bangladeshi voters, and even forced 10 million ethnic people to flee their homeland to India, and the Indian side refused to recognize these displaced people, which directly led to the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani war and promoted the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
7. Eddie Amin
Edie Amin, who launched a military coup in 1971 to overthrow the milton Obote regime, became president of Uganda in the same year. During his tenure, Amin deliberately invaded Uganda's southern neighbor, Tanzania, seeking help from Israel and Britain. Later, after gaining the support of Islamist countries such as Libya, he fought with Israel. Amin pursued a reign of terror, killing and persecuting 100,000 to 300,000 people of the Acholi, Ranji and other tribes in the country. He also hated and expelled 80,000 Asian Ugandan residents.
8. Park Chung-hee
Park Chung-hee became acting president in March 1962. He was elected president in December 1963 and has since served five consecutive terms. Although Park Chung-hee played a positive role in South Korea's development, his authoritarian tendencies were not popular. During his tenure he suppressed the development of modern bourgeois democracy with Korean characteristics, restricted individual citizens' freedoms, expanded the CIA, and implemented a new constitution that gave broad powers to the South Korean president. In 1964, he presided over the normalization of relations between South Korea and Japan, a move that was opposed by many and caused widespread social unrest. On October 26, 1979, he was assassinated by kim jae-gyu, the head of his country's Central Intelligence Agency.
9. Mobutu SessaY Seco
Mobutu Sessé Seko, who overthrew Casavubu in a coup d'état in 1965, became President and Marshal of the Congo. After the 1970s, radical nationalization and nationalization policies were adopted, and political corruption was carried out. During his tenure, he was promoted to the Africanization of the country, which was renamed the Republic of Zaire in 1971 and the Grand Chieftain of the Bangalla ethnic group in 1980. Under dictatorship, he was a strong advocate of "one leader --- Mobutu", and in 1970 and 1977 he was repeatedly elected president with only one person running. Over the years, not only has it not improved domestic political contradictions, but it has also plunged the economy, the national transportation network, agriculture, etc. into recession, and it has become one of the most wealth-accumulating people in the world.
10. Nikolai Ceausescu
Nicolas Ceausescu was President of the Council of State of the Socialist Republic of Romania in 1967 and President in 1974. In the later period of his reign, with the increase of prestige, Ceausescu gradually monopolized power, became more and more arbitrary about the affairs of the party and the state, and practiced family rule and one-word leadership. He concentrated the power of the party, government, army, economy, and the masses in the hands of one person, and became one of the most part-time leaders in the world. The West called him "Communist Emperor," while the opposition called him "Stalin of the Carpathians." Mistakes in decision-making and a refusal to reform have led to economic collapse, resentment among the population and increased social unrest.