LEADERS THAT COMMITTED GENOCIDE
Added on: 21st Sep 2015
KIM IL-SUNG
Setting the precedent for his successors, Kim managed to establish
one of the most repressive and genocidal regimes in history.
POL POT
A Cambodian leader who led the Khmer Rouge for more than three
decades, Pol Pot presided over a communist dictatorship and
imposed a radical form of agrarian socialism in his country. During his
reign, the combined effects of malnutrition, execution, forced labour and
poor medical care led to the death of over 25% of Cambodia’s population.
ISMAIL ENVER
This Ottoman military officer who led the 1908 Young Turk Revolution
was responsible for the deaths of numerous Armenians, Germans,
Greeks and Assyrians and was seen as the principal orchestrator of
several other brutal genocides.
ADOLF HITLER
Almost synonymous with the word “genocide”, Hitler was responsible
for one of the most systematic and nauseatingly efficient
genocides in history.
JOZEF STALIN
Combining all of his concentration camps, purges, and mass
executions together led to a death toll in the tens of millions.
LEOPOLD II OF BELGIUM
Ignoring the rules laid down by the colonial nations of Europe,
this Belgian King established the Congo Free State for his own
personal gain and it is to this day one of the most brutal and
imperialist regimes in human history. It was responsible for the
exploitation and deaths of over 15 million Congolese.
AUGUSTO PINOCHET
In spite of his brutal sociopathic tendencies, major western political
leaders refused to label him for what he was – a genocidal maniac.
Instead, they praised his reforms. Today, however, we can see how
wrong the western political leaders were and just how merciless
his reign of terror was.
MAO ZE DONG
Also referred to as Chairman Mao, Mao Ze Dong was a Chinese
communist revolutionary who was also the founding father of the
People’s Republic of China. Historians characterize him as a dictator
whose administration led to the death of 40-70 million people in
China and Tibet because of executions, forced labour and starvation.
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