12 Faces of A Dictator

1.A Democide , Mass Murder, Genocide,Torture , and Disappearance and of  political descendants and journalists

Democide: The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.

Mass Murder: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:

…any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions.

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2. Complete Militarization of the society with an arm race accompanied with Frequent menacing Military parade;

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3. Extreme Nationalism with one party or one party/ethnic/family dominated political system

Nationalism generally involves the identification of an ethnic identity with a state.The subject can include the belief that one’s nation is of primary importance. It is also used to describe a movement to establish or protect a homeland (usually an autonomous state) for an ethnic group. In some cases the identification of a homogeneous national culture is combined with a negative view of other races of cultures

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4. Megalomaniac Constructions: Statues, Dams, …

Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi extended his condolences to families of workers who died at the Tekeze dam

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An An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions based symbolic construction of big buildings and projects which has no need with the intimidate need of the population.

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5. Personification of absolute Power :-  authoritarian Power, creation of a  dynasty for his no named Successor

A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.—

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6. Territorial Expansion and war mongering

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Generally the dictatorial regime will sooner or later will be engaged in territorial expansion which mostly ends the existence of his regime even in most  cases sees his own country divided or lost territory or occupied by foreing forces( Sadam  Korea Divided etc..). In case of  Hitler he brought distraction to Europe and and the division of Germany and the occupation of the eastern Europe by Stalin troops. I f we take  the case of Uganda  Idi Amin Dada’s invention  of Tanzania  made him loss his power. In the case of Cambodia the miss calculated attack on Vietnam make the  genocidal regime of Pole pot to lose his power of Khmer rouge. In the case of Ethiopia the Mengistu dictatorial regime at his demise   in 1991 Eritrea  became Independence state.

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7. No Freedom :-  press,  oppositions, independent courts, regular elections, religion is highly controlled with constance surveillance

The right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ICCPR recognizes the right to freedom of speech as “the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression”. Furthermore freedom of speech is recognized in European, inter-American and African regional human rights law.

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8. Defiance to all nation

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9. Personality Cult

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10. Overlapping Jurisdiction and  responsibilities of the dictator

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11. Secret police state with  spying of everyday life of its citizen

They are institution secretly established by a dictatorial regime known as  generally secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages.

They are operating without judicial oversight and other accountability mechanisms. In some cases, the status of the organization as a “secret police” organization may be debated.

“Domestic Intelligence Agency” is a common euphemism for organizations with broadly similar goals and methods.

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12. Mass Starvation thousands or even millions die of starvation with seldom covering  up famine,  intentionally  causing  famines.

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Let us Learn from Rewanda

The School of

Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime

More than a million people died under the four-year regime

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The Khmer Rouge was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, but during this short time it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people – and some estimates say up to 2.5 million perished. Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside. But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost, and whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork. Communist philosophy The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea – the name the Communists used for Cambodia. Based in remote jungle and mountain areas in the north-east of the country, the group initially made little headway.

The Khmer Rouge expanded their reach from the remote north-east

But after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support. In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside. Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975. During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were “untainted” by Buddhism. When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia – now re-named Kampuchea – into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia. Declaring that the nation would start again at “Year Zero”, Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives. Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.

Pol Pot led the brutal regime, but died without being brought to justice

Hundreds of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres. The most notorious of these centres was the S21 jail in Phnom Penh, where more than 17,000 men, women and children were imprisoned during the regime’s four years in power. Hundreds of thousands of others died from disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge – often just teenagers themselves – forced people to do back-breaking work. Opening up The Khmer Rouge government was finally overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops, after a series of violent border confrontations. The higher echelons of the party retreated to remote areas of the country, where they remained active for a while but gradually became less and less powerful. In the years that followed, as Cambodia began the process of reopening to the international community, the full horrors of the regime became apparent. Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention. Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home. But less than a year later he was dead – denying the millions of people who were affected by this brutal regime the chance to bring him to justice.

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