By Iyoha John Darlington
The world has lived through great civilizations and civilization itself has had its worst enemies. Man driven by lust for power and personal aggrandizement plays god to others and we have encountered with so many of them through the ages. The historic tripartite pact of 1936 saw a fusion of power blocs. Benito Mussolini ruled by caprice in fascistItaly , in Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler allied with Emperor Hirohito of Japan in a bid to bestride the world like a colossus.
The world has lived through great civilizations and civilization itself has had its worst enemies. Man driven by lust for power and personal aggrandizement plays god to others and we have encountered with so many of them through the ages. The historic tripartite pact of 1936 saw a fusion of power blocs. Benito Mussolini ruled by caprice in fascist
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Other outposts of tyranny include Jordan under
King Abdullah, Libya under Ghaddafi, Cuba under Fidel Castrol, the rogue
regimes of North Korea and Iran, Iraq under Saddam, Uganda under Amin the late
despot and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe who has ruled the country for nearly four
decades.These were cold-blooded brutes who hid under a cause to unleash fury on
their subjects and silenced dissenting voices in their political domains.
A lot of lives were lost and the world and most regions experienced unprecedentedly abysmal demographic change calling to mind the attempted extermination of the Jewish race out of which six million Jews gassed to death where they were held in death camps and other million of lives that were lost in World War11. Thousands of unarmed civilians mainly Kurds were killed in Halabja poison gas attack by the regime inBaghdad
under Saddam Hussein, Iron-fisted Benito Mussolini clamped down on his own
people while he ruled over Italy .
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the State Research Bureau, Amin's secret agents killed many Ugandans some of
whose flesh he fed on like a cannibal. These were all dark moments in human
history. As luck would have it they all methodically took their unceremonious
exits from the earth under unfortunate circumstances.
A lot of lives were lost and the world and most regions experienced unprecedentedly abysmal demographic change calling to mind the attempted extermination of the Jewish race out of which six million Jews gassed to death where they were held in death camps and other million of lives that were lost in World War11. Thousands of unarmed civilians mainly Kurds were killed in Halabja poison gas attack by the regime in
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