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Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

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dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
Slobodan Milošević
Yugoslav–Serbian politician
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet politician and NKVD police chief
Teodoro Obiang
Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979

Jorge Rafael Videla
Argentine dictator (1925–2013)
Alfredo Stroessner
military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
Rafael Trujillo
President of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)
Elizabeth Báthory
Hungarian countess

Klaus Barbie
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)

Andréi Chikatilo
Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)
Uday Hussein
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Amr ibn Hisham
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Luis Alfredo Garavito
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Mikhail Tolstykh
commander of the pro-Russian forces
Luis García Meza Tejada
Bolivian dictator (1929-2018)
Arsen Pavlov
rebel leader known by his nom de guerre Motorola, K.I.A., commander of the Sparta Battalion
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Iraqi Mukhabarat leader (1951-2007)
Vsevolod Merkulov
Soviet politician and intelligence officer, head of NKGB (1895-1953)
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serial killer (1896–1944)

Grigory Mairanovsky
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Józef Światło
Polish defector (1915–1994)
Avraham Shalom
Israeli intelligence agent (1928-2014)
Filinto Müller
Brazilian politician (1900-1973)
Mikhail Kedrov
Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1878–1941)

Bou Hmara
Pretender to the throne of Morocco (1860-1909)
Mam Nai
Cambodian military
Esat Oktay Yıldıran
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Johnny Abbes García
politician (1924-1967)
Jamil Hassan
Syrian terrorist, head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate (2009-2019)
Greek Junta Trials
Trial of the dictators in the Greek Regime of the Colonels
Sam Bockarie
Sierra Leonean rebel (1963-2003)

Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro
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Portuguese intelligence officer and assasin

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Brazilian police officer (1933-1979)
Jesús Sosa Blanco
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José Guillermo García
former general of the military of El Salvador
Mao Renfeng
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Aarne Kauhanen
Finnish police officer
Rafiq Shahadah
Syrian military officer, military intelligence head