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The Experts Agree - Gun Control Works Great On A Disarmed Public

Pol Pot - During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in a "Year Zero". The combined effects of slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the Cambodian population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Mao Tse Tung - policies and political purges from 1949 to 1975 are widely believed to have caused the deaths of between 50 to 70 million people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

Idi Amin - rule was characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

Kim Jong Il - North Korea officially refers to him as the "Dear Leader" and the "Great Leader". The conservative NGO Freedom House in a report in January assessing abuses in 194 countries rated North Korea "worst" offender. The U.S. State Department said in its annual human rights report last week that "summary executions, torture, forced abortions and infanticide" continue in the Stalinist country. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 00882.html

Joseph Stalin - launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.

During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Muammar al-Gaddafi - Lockerbie bombing

American victims of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing

The Berlin discotheque bombing of April 5, 1986 was a terrorist attack on the La Belle discotheque, West Berlin, Germany, that was frequented by U.S. soldiers. A bomb placed under a table near the DJ booth exploded at the club, killing a Turkish woman and two U.S. servicemen and injuring 230

American victims of the 1989 UTA Flight 772 bombing

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics ... al-Gaddafi

Castro - Human Rights Watch is among international human rights organizations accusing the Cuban regime of systematic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions (a.k.a. "El Paredón").[1][2][3]

Cuban law limits freedom of expression, association, assembly, movement, and the press. Concerns have also been expressed about the operation of due process. According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist state until 1992, now "permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups, and individual believers." [1]. Censorship in Cuba has also been at the centre of complaints.

From 1959 through 1993, some 1.2 million Cubans (about 10% of the current population) left the island for the United States[25], often by sea in small boats and fragile rafts.

[edit] Forced labor camps and abuse of prisoners
In 1986 a "Tribunal on Cuba" was held in Paris to present testimonies by former prisoners of Cuba's penal system to the international media. The gathering was sponsored by Resistance international and The Coalition of Committees for the Rights of Man in Cuba. The testimonies presented at the tribunal, before an international panel, alleged a pattern of torture in Cuba's prisons and "hard labor camps". These included beatings, biological experiments in diet restrictions, violent interrogations and extremely unsanitary conditions. The jury concurred with allegations of arbitrary arrests; sentencing by court martial with neither public audience nor defense; periods in hard labour camps without sufficient food, clothes and medical care; and the arrests of children over nine years old.[26]

The number of reported executions in Cuba declined during the 1970s and by the 1980s were restricted to rare high-profile cases, notably the execution of General Arnaldo Ochoa in 1989. Ochoa, once proclaimed "Hero of the Revolution" by Fidel Castro, along with three other high-ranking officers, was brought to trial for drug trafficking. This offense carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, but Ochoa and the others were convicted of treason and promptly executed. Opponents of the Castro government outside of Cuba expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of Ochoa's arrest and execution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba

Adolf Hitler has so many attrocities he needs his own page and place in hell

Massacres and Atrocities of World War II - page 1 of 4

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html

Stalin ain't too far off from ole Adolph. He could use his own page too if you search out all the tyrannical stuff he did.