5 Cruel Rulers known for their cruelty and oppressive nature

Dictatorship is generally gives absolute power to a single power who styles himself as President, Chancellor etc., They are all rulers who never care to look for the suggestion or advice of any organizations of the Government. They wield power by dint of their cruelty and suppression of the people. They do have least concern for the prosperity of a nation.

In order to control people they terrorize them, they punish them, they squeeze them of their finance, food and other minimum necessities. They minimize and control the food supply and control the items. Generally, under a Dictator people suffer from extreme poverty and will experience severe punishments and even death sentence in some cases.

There are certain Rulers in the world history who are known for their cruelty and extreme oppressive nature.  They are:

Caligula

He ruled from 37 AD to 41 AD. This 3^rd Roman Emperor is known for his cruel nature, atrocities, coupled with peculiar enjoyment he was enjoying in punishing his people in peculiar ways. The people felt happy hailing him as ‘our baby’ and ‘our star’. They even celebrated killing 1, 60,000 animals in his honor. But, this happiness remained only for a short period. He started appearing in public in various dresses of Gods and Demigods and finally styling himself as a God. At one time he came out openly saying ‘Let there be one God and one King’.

He was murdering people brutally. The prisoners were supposed to have a painless death. He was very much interested in CUTTING THE PEOPLE WITH SAW and his opponents were his favorite act and were interested in chewing the testicles of the victims. His sex thirst had no bounds and was forcing husbands to give up their wives. He exiled his own sisters and brutally killed his brothers-in –law.Many people committed suicide unable to bear the torture. He was beating the opponents with heavy iron chains, and sometimes continuously for days even. Some opponents were killed crushing them with elephants. He even forced the families to attend the execution of their children.

In AD 41, Caligula was stabbed 30 times by Cassius Chaerea, whom he was insulting just because of his voice and calling inefficient in collecting taxes.

IVAN THE TERRIBLE

He was Czar of Russia from 1533 to 1584. Even when he was the kid he was killing, dogs, rabbits, cats and other creatures taking them to the tallest buildings and was throwing them down. He was taking delight in inflicting severe punishments on persons whom he considered his enemies. He was a man of complex personalities. As he started aging his mental illness knew no bounds and he killed his groomed and chosen heir. He started seeing enemies everywhere. He killed many people who were actually innocent. He destroyed villages, towns, and cities. He ordered hundreds of people to watch children hanged, tortured, and burned, boiled, stabbed, impaled and fried. He killed entire families even when he suspected enemy in them.

He had his personal torture chamber. He was personally killing people and putting them to Bears and Lions. He was taking delight in seeing the victim dying slowly with severe pain. His cruelty inflicted was against the nobles in whom he saw his personal enemy and brutally killed them along with their families. In Novgorod, where people were dying in 600-1000 daily due to severe famine, and epidemics he ordered the massacre of 60, 0000 just on the ground that the noblemen of the wealthy city were planning to defect. The Oprichniki pillaged and burnt the wealthy city of Novgorod and it could not survive again. He died while playing Chess with one of his friends.

POL POT

A revolutionary of The Communist Party of Kampuchea who became the leader of Cambodia in 1975 and from 1976-1979 served as the Prime Minister of Cambodia. His four years of Dictatorship turned Cambodia into a killing field and as initial step ordered the Urban Dwellers to shift to Villages and work there for the development of Cambodia. They were forced to work at the point of a gun and whoever could not work were either shot or killed brutally. They were forced to work from dawn to dusk, in the severe cold and rainy season in the agricultural fields and if anybody committed a mistake, he was denied food for the day. His four-year period witnessed mass killings and Genocide. He became totally anti-Vietnam and marriages between the people of Vietnam and Cambodia was prohibited and the couple so married was killed. He encouraged teenagers to join the army only to kill them. The babies were cut into pieces limb by limb and execution was ordered using varieties of weapons. Even a sharp Bamboo stick was used for killing the people. His four-year Dictatorship reduced about 1 to 2 million population of Cambodia out of 8 million population just because of executions, malnutrition, forced labor, hazardous working conditions and poor medical care. In 1998 he took his last breath in his bed after listening to his favorite ‘Voice of America’.

ISMAIL ENWAR PASH

He became the main leader of the Ottoman Empire during Balkan Wars and World War. I. He rose to prominence rank by rank and became the Minister of war of Ottoman Empire and held the de facto rule from 1913 till the end of World War.I. He supported Germany and appreciated German Military Culture and invited the German officers to reform the Ottoman Army. He ordered youngsters of military age to report to Military offices to join the army. As there was a flood of crowd, there was a delay in the recruitment and it had an impact on the harvest. During the war, his message to the people was ‘War until victory’. There was deterioration in the living conditions of the people and everywhere there was discontentment. The battle of Sarikamish sealed the fate of Enver Pasha as it was the single worst Ottoman defeat in World War-I and he blamed the Armenian Army and caused Armenian Genocide with the sporadic massacre of Armenians. It was a constant extermination of Armenians in their homeland and the number of people killed was about 800,000 to 1.6 million which were carried out during and after World War.I and it was to this incident the world ‘genocide’ was coined. It was the second most-studied case of genocide.

JOSEPH STALIN

He was the Military Director of Soviet Union from mid-1920 to till his death in 1953. He was one of the 7 members of the politburo established to manage the Bolshevik Revolution and consolidated his power after the death of Lenin. Under him ‘Socialism in one country ’became the tenet of the soviet society. He introduced Centralized Command Economy which transformed USSR from Agrarian Society into Industrial power.

The initial set back in the Agriculture led to disturbances which were suppressed by using Armed forces and intelligentsia in which millions were exiled, imprisoned, and executed. His period was a reign of violence for the whole 30 years. The enemies of USSR whom he termed were sent to slave camps where they were supposed to work until their death. He signed many death warrants and not spared the intelligent especially. He did not hesitate to kill the family members of the people who loved and worshiped him as God. When about 10 million people died due to famine he made a statement that ‘one death is a tragedy and millions is a statistic’. Even ice pic was used to punish the enemy. The peculiarity is that even the people in prison were released and asked to fight in World War.II and when they returned they were sent back to prison. About 1.5 million German women were raped and many Jews were kept in concentration camps to die. He killed 20 to 50 million people and finally died in 1953 due to Heart stroke.