Parade - The Sunday Newspaper Magazine Insert Had A Piece on Dictators....

[global1]

Who is the world's worst dictator? was the title of the article. This was Parade's Annual List of the 10 World's Worst Dictators

Here's their list:

1. Omar al-Bashir, Sudan
2. Kim Jong-il, North Korea
3. Than Shwe, Burma(Myanmar)
4. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
5. Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan
6. Hu Jintao, China
7. King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia
8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan
9. Seyed Ali Khamane'i, Iran
10. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea

Parade's Additional List of Contenders

11. Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya
12. King Mswati III, Swaziland
13. Isayas Afewerki, Eritrea
14. Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus
15. Fidel Castro, Cuba
16. Bashar al-Assad, Syria
17. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan
18. Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia
19. Boungnang Vorachith, Laos
20. Tran Duc Luong, Vietnam

Parade's definition of a dictator is: a head of state who exercises arbitrary authority over the lives of his citizens and who cannot be removed from power through legal means. The worst commit terrible human-rights abuses.

I guess we could breathe easy - * wasn't on the list.

[babylonsister]

1. Funny, I saw that in my paper and the first pic I looked for was *'s. nt

[MissB]

2. Same here.

But after all, it is Parade.

[leftchick]

3. Isn't it interesting that the chimp and Karimov are buddies?

I guess the fact that he tortures the opposition by boiling them makes him okie doke in bush's book.



nothing like choosing the brutal dictators one wishes to hate.