Throughout the history of mankind there
have been many cruel rulers that use terror to gain control of public.
They rule with an iron fist and an unrelenting thirst for power and
recognition.....
Unfortunately for society there was too many for them all
to fit on the list, so here’s the worst of the worst. From bad to worst,
here are the top 10 evil men, 10 most cruel rulers ever in history.Idi Amin Dada
One of the most cruel rulers ever, Idi Amin Dada was the military dictator
and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British
colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles in 1946, Amin held the rank
of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its
Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971,
deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while
he was the head of state. His rule was characterized by human rights
abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial
killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The estimates range
of people killed from 80,000 to 500,000.
He hate Europeans “We Africans used to
carry Europeans, but now Europeans are carrying us. We are now the
masters … They came from Britian and wanted to show that I really have
power in my country.” Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his
death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for
the abuses of his regime. On 20 July 2003, died at King Faisal
Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from kidney failure.
Attila The Hun
Attila (Attila the Hun), was the ruler
of the Huns from 434 to 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which
stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube
River to the Baltic Sea. He was considered as one of the history`s
greatest villains. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the
epitome of cruelty and rapacity. He crossed the Danube twice and
plundered the Balkans, but was unable to take Constantinople. He also
attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and
marching as far as Aurelianum (Orleans) before being defeated at the
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.
Subsequently he invaded Italy,
devastating the northern provinces, but was unable to take Rome. He
planned for further campaigns against the Romans. He returned in 452 to
claim his marriage to Honoria anew, invading and ravaging Italy along
the way. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night. He died
in the early months of 453.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which
became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He
came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia.
After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed “Genghis Khan”, he
started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of
Eurasia. He was a warrior and ruler. starting from obscure and
insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia
under the rule of himself and his family in a rigidly disciplined
military state.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer
Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. Pot became
leader of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. During his time in power, his
radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities,
killed or displaced millions of people, and left a legacy of disease and
starvation. Under his leadership, his government caused the deaths of
at least one million people from forced labor, starvation, disease,
torture, or execution.
Vlad Tepes
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (Vlad the Impaler) known for executing his enemies by impalement.
He was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to
1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. He is
best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments,
he imposed during his reign. Also known for serving as the primary
inspiration for the vampire. Vlad was a fan of various forms of torture
including disemboweling and rectal and facial impalement.
He tortured thousands while he ate and
drunk among the corpses. He impaled every person in the city of Amlas
nearly 20,000 men, women and children. Vlad tortured the people ordering
him to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged,
burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also
liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs.
Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan IV Vasilyevich),
also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533
to 1547. He was the first ruler of Russia and the first to be
proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547).
Historic sources present disparate
accounts of Ivan’s complex personality; He was described as intelligent
and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental
illness. He enjoyed burning 1000s of people in frying pans, and was
fond of impaling people. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the
perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city
escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the
troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son.
He is also remembered for his paranoiac
suspiciousness and cruel persecution of nobility. Ivan died from a
stroke while playing chess with Bogdan Belsky on 28 March.
Adolph Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann was born in March 19,
1906, in Solingen, a small industrial city in the Rhineland. He was a
German and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was hanged
by the state of Israel for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews
during World War II. “The death of five million Jews on my conscience
gives me extraordinary satisfaction.”
Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II was the King of the Belgians,
and is chiefly remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of
the Congo Free State. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and
Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17
December 1865 and remained king until his death. Leopold created the
Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and
ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced
labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National
Socialist German Workers Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933
to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at
the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War II, and the
Holocaust. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of
territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and
destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of
some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April
1945, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously
biting into a cyanide capsule.
Josef Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union
from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953. Among the Bolshevik
revolutionaries who brought about the Russian Revolution in 1917. Stalin
probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in
history. In the 1930s, by his orders, millions of peasants were either
killed or permitted to starve to death. Stalin brought about the deaths
of more than 20 million of his own people while holding the Soviet Union
in an iron grip for 29 years.
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