Dictator

1. Dictator By.Hannah, Jinnie, Aki, Tom

2. Who is a dictator? • A person who has the power to dominate the country. • Controls citizens to what he wants • Only one person in power.

3. Dictators in the history

4. Muammar Gaddafi(Lybia, 1979-2011) • Took power in a September 1969 military coup which deposed King Idriss. One of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's first acts as dictator was to rework the calendar and rename all the months. He also published the Green Book -- not really an answer to Mao's Little Red Book, but rather a triad of brief pamphlets on the topics of Democracy, Economics, and Sociology. • Primarily at issue was Qaddafi's longstanding support for international terrorism. He played host to both Abu Nidal and the infamous assassin Carlos the Jackal. In all likelihood, Qaddafi ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. • In August 2003, Libya agreed to pay $2.7 billion to families of the 270 killed on board flight 103, when it blew up in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Just six months after the settlement, Qaddafi was visited by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Tripoli.

5. Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-2011) • The longest reigning dictator, Castro took advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the Iraq war in March and April of 2003 to carry out his biggest round-up of non-violent dissidents in more than a decade. He arrested 75 human rights activists, journalists, and academics, and sent them to jail for an average of 19 years. • Cuba remains a one party state with all of the power in the hands of Castro. The courts are controlled by the executive branch (in other words, Castro). He traditionally blames all of his country’s problems on the USA.

6. Present dictators

7. Kim Jong Un (N.K, 2012) • He is a son of Kim Jong Il, the deceased dictator of North Korea. • After the death of Kim Jong Il, on 11 April 2012, the 4th Party Conference elected him to the newly-created post of First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

8. Omar Al-Bashir (1989) • seized power in a military coup and immediately suspended the constitution, abolished the legislature, and banned political parties and unions. He insists that the nation be ruled by the Islamic Shari’alaw. • His army has routinely bombed civilians and tortured and massacred non-Arabs. He has a long history of providing sanctuary for a wide range of terrorists. In 1996, he tried unsuccessfully to sell Osama bin Laden to the US government.

9. TeodoroObiangNguema (Equatorial Guinea, 1979) • In July, state radio announced that Obiang is “in permanent contact with the Almighty,” and that “He can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to Hell.” • There is no public transport, no newspapers, and only 1% of government spending goes to health care. When asked why so much of his nation’s oil money is deposited into his personal account at the Riggs Bank in Washington, DC, Obiang explained that he keeps total control of the money in order to ‘avoid corruption’.