Who is your favourite dictator?

whats Timothy Dalton doing in that fancy get up?

new in at no. 40
that dude from syria
killing his own people by the thousand

he'll have to do a lot better than that though to move up the charts
come on assad you can do it

Nando's: Last dictator standing - YouTube

Mine is Velocio. You can't beat a benign dictatorship by someone who's doing a great job.

Great Thread!

Mine has to be Kamuzu Banda. He built a myth around him of supernatural powers to scare the people. I even lived in a neighbouring country and people feared that if they spoke ill of him they would be attacked by his mystical swarm of killer bees.

I know a good few Africans who always complain about the problems with superstitious beliefs back home.

Got to be Gambian Dictator Yahya Jammeh

http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Portals/0/Ajjj%282%29.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/23/gambia-presidential-election-yaya-jammeh

My upstairs neighbour is from The Gambia and it's interesting to talk to him about the situation there.

Dési Bouterse - I'm sure other dictators have his number stored in their mobiles

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

1,100 rooms will do nicely thank you.
(Not fully a dictator, yet......)

time for a knew entrant though hardly a favourite (i started this thread in a previous life so can’t change it to ‘who is the worst dictator’)

thing is they never quite leave the world with the legacy they envisioned, instead of greatness they are usually remembered for being tried in the Hague, suicide in a bunker, assassinated by somebody close to them or shot/hung in the street by an uprising.

… here’s hoping … ! … and soon …

Pinochet and Mugabe didn't do too bad though did they.