Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Washington Post's Parade Magazine's annual World's Worst Dictator list came out this past Sunday. Not many new names, though Castro has been knocked out of the top ten, along with King Mswati III of Swaziland. Top Ten (with last year's rank in parenthesis):
1. Omar al-Bashir, Sudan (7)
2. Kim Jong Il, North Korea (1)
3. Than Shwe, Burma (2)
4. Hu Jintao, China (3)
5. Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia (5)
6. Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya (dishonorable mention)
7. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan (not mentioned)
8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan (8)
9. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe (4)
10. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (6)
The article mentioned that Kim Jong Il "slipped from first place, but not for want of trying". They spy in workplaces and neighborhoods to "inform on anyone who criticizes regime" in South Korea. And, the people can only watch political channels on TV and listen to them on the radio. In Burma, the dictator released 9000 prisoners...only 40 of which were political detainees (most were common criminals). He also "extended the house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won 80% of the vote in the last open election (1990)." Did you know China executes more people than all other nations combined??????? How sad that the life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 33 but the dictator is 80! And, in Pakistan, a woman who has been raped must present 4 Muslim male witnesses to the crime in order to present her case.
1. Omar al-Bashir, Sudan (7)
2. Kim Jong Il, North Korea (1)
3. Than Shwe, Burma (2)
4. Hu Jintao, China (3)
5. Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia (5)
6. Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya (dishonorable mention)
7. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan (not mentioned)
8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan (8)
9. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe (4)
10. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (6)
The article mentioned that Kim Jong Il "slipped from first place, but not for want of trying". They spy in workplaces and neighborhoods to "inform on anyone who criticizes regime" in South Korea. And, the people can only watch political channels on TV and listen to them on the radio. In Burma, the dictator released 9000 prisoners...only 40 of which were political detainees (most were common criminals). He also "extended the house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won 80% of the vote in the last open election (1990)." Did you know China executes more people than all other nations combined??????? How sad that the life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 33 but the dictator is 80! And, in Pakistan, a woman who has been raped must present 4 Muslim male witnesses to the crime in order to present her case.
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