http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_02-11-2007/Dictators PARADEs 2007 List 1) Omar al-Bashir, Sudan http://www.parade.com/articles/web_exclusives/2007/02-11-2007/dictators01.html Sudan. Age 63. In power since 1989. Last years rank: 1
Omar al-Bashir retains his position as the worst dictator because of his ongoing deadly human-rights abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan. Over the last four years, at least 200,000 people there have been killed by pro-Bashir forces. Nationwide, 5.3 million have been driven from their homes, and more than 700,000 have fled the country. But at the UN last September, Bashir blamed international aid groups for exaggerating the problems as a ploy to raise money for their organizations. And in November, he argued that war-related deaths in Darfur were less than 9,000. Despite agreeing to a 60-day ceasefire last month, he has been accused by his people of ordering troops to continue their attacks. 2) Kim Jong-il, North Korea 3) Sayyid Ali KhamEnei, Iran 4) Hu Jintao, China 5) King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia 6) Than Shwe, Burma (Myanmar) 7) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe 8) Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan 9) Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya 10) Bashar al-Assad, Syria 11) Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea 12) King Mswati III, Swaziland 13) Isayas Afewerki, Eritrea 14) Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus 15) Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan 16) Choummaly Sayasone, Laos 17) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia 18) Hosni Mubarak, Egypt 19) Paul Biya, Cameroon 20) Vladimir Putin, Russia
