Dictator Watch: the ten you need to know aboutIt’s been a bad year for dictators, especially in the Middle East. There they were, cruising along comfortably for 30 or 40 years, terrorising their subjects and stashing billions in Switzerland, and suddenly it all fell apart, writes Paul Barry.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Bradley Manning: human rights martyr?
Crikey readers have their say.
A guide to the world’s dictators and their exile hot spots
While the crowd packs Mubarak’s bags, we bring you a guide to the world’s worst dictators and where they go when the people finally kick them out.
PHOTO GALLERY: When bad art meets bad politics
Political ideologies may change, but bad sculptures live on forever, such as the statue of Stalin in Georgia, the golden Turkmenistan dictator statue which rotated so he always faced the sun and the giant stainless steel Gengis Khan.
PHOTO GALLERY: Babies dressed as dictators
It’s the axis of adorable, with a Danish artist dressing up her baby as the most famous dictators of the 20th century, from Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein. Even Stalin started off as an innocent baby.
Power to the people: forgive the tyrants
Forgiveness of a dictator and ensuring an end to their actions is more crucial than prosecuting them for war crimes, writes Sholto Byrnes. Refusing to seek vengeance shows victims “to be better than their oppressors”.
Honduran coup: take another look at Zelaya’s proposals
Had they come to fruition, the evil schemes of Zelaya (and, for that matter, Chavez) would have resulted in an electoral system rather like Australia’s.
Life was better under communism, say most East Germans
Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgic has kicked in for the German Democratic Republic. In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.
A dictator primer: how to rig elections
How does a dictator rig an election? Charles Richardson explains as Zimbabwe’s election results are announced.
Sheridan to Musharraf: More massacres, please
The breakdown of democracy in Pakistan has led most normal people to question Western support for General Musharraf. The Australian’s Greg Sheridan is worried, too, but for quite different reasons. He thinks that Musharraf might be insufficiently dictatorial, writes Jeff Sparrow.
