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.
10 Most Cruel Rulers Ever in history of the world.
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.
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.
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
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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. Pol 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, and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling
mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest
of the Balkans. Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly
cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the
primary inspiration for the vampire. He 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 and 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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