Group Five - World Leaders Survivor - STAGE ONE COMPLETE

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Abdullah

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Than Shwe

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He's next on my hit list after Than Shwe, who of course is going down HARD.

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With Kim Jong-il, Than Shwe and Omar al-Bashir gone, Afewerki is probably the worst dictator of the remaining leaders even if nowhere near as well known. Gaddafi is pretty awful too of course, but better to get the ball rolling on Afewerki.

Isaias Afewerki

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Libya   Muammar al-Gaddafi -eliminated round four

Finally!
Now there are still two dictators from the 20 Worst Dictators list in this group: Zenawi and Deby. I think Idriss Deby is worse, so my vote is for him.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is probably worse than either.

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Why do people vote for the Tunisian guy? (Zine, etc, Ben Ali). Like the other Maghreb countries Tunisia seems fairly well-managed. The Wikipedia-article seems a fair bit slanted, but if the facts are true we're talking about the most economically free, least islamist and most gender-equal arab country in the world. While the wiki-article tries to cover it, it seems like a dictatorship, but not a totalitarian one.

My grudge against the country began in 2004 when they banned all pictures of John Kerry from the media.

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Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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Ivo Sanader

Awful, disgusting, fascist, piece of sh!t country.

Sigh...
The old stupid thought about a now democratic country.

Croatia is a country which, despite tons of pandering and support from the west for who knows what reason, has refused to arrest any of its war criminals, and pretty much turned a blind eye to all of them, also doing nothing about the Ustase lovers so prevalent in its society. Look at how long Ante Gotovina was free. And since then it continues to hold up its Ustase lovers as national heroes.

Serbia is a country continued to be demonized and oppressed by the West, despite it being the country to topple and arrest Milosevic, arrested Radovan Karadzic, and continues to hunt for Mladic.

Granted Kosovo is the worst of them all, it has done more than just ignore its war criminals, it elected one PM. But he's already gone, so moot point.

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Stephenson King. I can't think of a single thing notable or important about his country, good or bad.

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Stephenson King

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Ivo Sanader

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Ivo Sanader

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Stephenson King

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Stephenson King

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Abdoulaye Wade.

Looks like he was suspected in the killing of a political rival, the charges were dismissed, but still suspicious.