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World's 10 worst dictators

New Delhi: Since the medieval ages, there has been many rulers in history who were tyrants and carried out brutal massacres. The names that immediately come to mind are tyrants like Genghis Khan, Taimurlane, Nadir

6. Idi Amin

 

The 3rd President of Uganda was responsible for about 250,000 deaths which were a result of his regime of terror marked by torture, extra-judicial executions, corruption and ethnic persecution. He held power from 1972 to 1979 when he fled the country due to the defeat against Tanzania which he attacked one year earlier. He found refuge in Libya and then in Saudi Arabia where he died in 2003.

 



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