Dictatorship means a significant reduction or complete absence of political and civil liberties in the country due to the concentration of power in the hands of one person or group of people. And the word "dictator" itself has become synonymous with gross violations of human rights and cruelty.
Introducing you the most dictatorial countries of the world. The rating is based on data from the entertainment site Hubpages.
5. Zimbabwe
Opens the rating of modern states with the most brutal dictatorial regime. After the successful start of the anti-colonial liberation war, Robert Mugabe was elected the first president of the independent Republic of Zimbabwe, but over the years he has increasingly emphasized his dictatorial tendencies. The Mugabe government is criticized both domestically and internationally for the torture and killing of 70,000 people, 70% unemployment and 500% inflation. His regime is permeated with violence and intolerance. In Zimbabwe, laws were passed against homosexuals, and a “black redistribution” was carried out - forcibly seizing land from white citizens with the transfer of their farms to landless peasants and war veterans.
4. Equatorial Guinea
Among the most dictatorial countries in the world is the tiny state in West Africa, ruled by Theodoro Obiang Ngema Mbasogo. Equatorial Guinea, with its 500,000 inhabitants, was not of interest to the world until, in 1991, huge oil reserves were discovered on the shelf in its territorial waters. However, from this 60% of Guineans are neither cold nor hot, they live on 1 dollar a day. And Teodoro Obiang puts most of the oil profit into his bank account. The dictator said that in his country there is no poverty, just the population is used to living differently. There are no public transportation or newspapers in Guinea, and only 1% of government spending is spent on healthcare.
3. Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries in the world where for many decades at least formal elections of a ruler have never been held. King of Saudi Arabia Salman Ibn Abdul-Aziz since 2015. Single adult women cannot travel, work or receive medical procedures without the permission of a male guardian from among close relatives. They are not even allowed to drive a car.
The kingdom uses the death penalty, torture and extrajudicial arrest. The morale police even forbid the sale of Barbie, since this doll is a symbol of the decline and depravity of the West.
2. North Korea
In second place on the list of the most violent dictators of the world is Kim Jong-un, the son of Kim Jong Il. He became a dictator of North Korea in 2011, the day after the death of his father. A brilliant comrade (one of the official titles of the North Korean leader) was originally supposed to rule the country along with Uncle Chan Song Thaek. However, in December 2013, his uncle was charged with high treason and executed.
It is estimated that 150,000 people in the country are engaged in forced labor in camps set up to punish alleged political dissidents and their families, as well as citizens who fled the country to China but were extradited by the Chinese government.
1. Sudan
In first place in the top 5 of the most dictatorial countries in the world in 2015 is the largest African state. It is led by President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir. He came to power after the military coup, and immediately suspended the constitution, repealed the Legislative Assembly and banned political parties and trade unions. The dictator has always insisted that the life of the people should be governed by Sharia, even in South Sudan, with its predominantly Christian population.
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is notorious for organizing mass killings of black citizens during the conflict in Darfur. Due to the civil war in South Sudan between the black and Arab populations, more than 2.7 million people became refugees. In 2009, the International Criminal Court for the first time in its history issued an arrest warrant for the incumbent head of state. Al-Bashir, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes, replied that those who issued this order can eat it.
