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Publication: Sify News
Date: February 13, 2005
URL: http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13670737&headline=Musharraf~in~10~worst~dictators~list
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf
is among 'the world's 10 worst dictators,' figuring for the first time
in a list prepared by a widely-circulated US magazine in consultation with
human right groups.
Musharraf ranks seventh in the list
issued by Parade magazine.
He is preceded by Kim Jong Il of
North Korea, Omar al-Bashmir of Sudan, Than Shwe of Burma, Hu Jintao of
China, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Col Muammar al-Qaddafi
of Libya.
He is followed by Saparmurat Niyazov
of Turkmenistan, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Teodoro Obiang Nguema of
Equatorial Guinea.
President Fidel Castro of Cuba and
King Mswati III of Switzerland were among the ten worst dictators in the
world last year but they are considered better than the 10 worst this year.
The list was compiled by writer
David Wallechinsky in consultation with Human Rights Watch, Freedom House,
Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders -- human rights groups
that "have not hesitated to expose the policies of dictatorships of both
the left and the right."
