Worst totalitarian regimes still in power
in the year 2000
- Hu Jingtao (China): still occupies Tibet and Turkestan (invaded in the 1950s), thousands of dissidents in jail, and continuous threats to peaceful and democratic Taiwan
- Kim Jong Il (North Korea): terror regime, thousands of dissidents killed, threatens peaceful and democratic South Korea
- Taliban (Afghanistan) [deposed by USA in 2002]: ferocious Islamic laws, thousands of people killed because they did not observe Islam
- Saddam Hussein (Iraq) [deposed by USA in 2003]: one million people died in civil wars and two invasions on neighboring countries
- Fidel Castro (Cuba): terror regime, dean of world's dictators
- Assad (Syria): terror regime
- Qaddafi (Libya): thousands of dissidents killed, invaded Chad, sponsored international terrorism
- Burmese junta (Burma): terror regime, thousands of dissidents tortured
- Fahd bin 'Abdulaziz (Saudi Arabia)
- Alexander Lukashenka (Belarus)
- Khameini (Iran)
- Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
- Maaouya Ould Taya (Mauritania)
- Mubarak (Egypt)
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algeria)
- Omar al-Bashir (Sudan)
- Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
- Ali Abdullah Saleh (Yemen)
- Nong Duc Manh (Vietnam)
- Blaise Campaore (Burkina Faso)
- Amadou Toumani Toure (Mali)
- Idriss Deby (Chad)
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