Human rights abuses Dictator
joseph stalin, dictator of soviet union 1929 1953.
under soviet leaders vladimir lenin , joseph stalin, government policy enforced extrajudicial killings, secret police (originally known cheka) , notorious gulag system of concentration camps. gulag inmates not political prisoners, although significant numbers of political prisoners found in camps @ 1 time. data collected soviet archives gives death toll gulags @ 1,053,829. other human rights abuses soviet state included human experimentation, use of psychiatry political weapon , denial of freedoms of religion, assembly, speech , association.
pol pot became leader of cambodia in 1975. in all, estimated 1.7 million people (out of population of 7 million) died due policies of four-year dictatorship. result, pol pot described hitler of cambodia , genocidal tyrant .
the international criminal court issued arrest warrant sudan s military dictator omar al-bashir on alleged war crimes in darfur.
north korea known notorious human rights abuses, such gulag-esque prison camps, 3 generations of punishment rule, , numerous instances of kidnapping south koreans near border , tourists.
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