NEWS10 RUTHLESS AFRICAN WARLORDS. (Checkout photos)

10 RUTHLESS AFRICAN WARLORDS. (Checkout photos)

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  1. Idi Amin Dada
    He was a commander of Ugandan army when he siezed power in 1971.He earned the title “butcher of Uganda” for his brutality.He was responsible for the death of 500,000 people.He died in 2003.
  1. Muammar Gaddafi. He ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011. Gaddafi stockpiled chemical weapons. He was also blamed for the 1988 Luca bay bombings killing 270 people.
    It was also reported that he provided Viagra-like drugs to his men for the purpose of raping women as a form of intimidation.He died in October 2011.
  1. Charles Taylor. Served as President of Liberia from 1997 – 2003 following his victory in a bloody civil war of 1985.
    He was arrested to face embezzlement charges but fled to Libya to receive guerilla training from Gaddafi.1989,he Les an uprising that from Ivory Coast against Liberia leading to a civil war that lasted 7 yrs killing 200,000 people.
  1. Jean Bédel Bokassa. He was a Central African Republic leader.He was a great embezzler of funds and was reported for cannibalism.
    In 1979,his troops massacred civilians who were protesting over food prices in Bangui and later killed school children who refused expensive uniform bearing his image.He passed away on 3rd November,1996.
  1. Robert Mugabe. He became known as an international hero of independence in Zimbabwe. In 1981,the Zimbabwean fifth brigade trained by North Koreans
    Crashed an uprising in western Zimbabwe an estimated 20,000 people died during the uprising
  1. Foday Sankoh. He was from Sierra Leone
    He recruited child soldiers who mainly killed using machetes.The civil war he started cost more then 50,000 lives.He died in a prison in Freetown before his trial in 2003.

Joseph Kony The leader of Uganda’s Law resistance army.He was charged for war and crime

  1. General Butt Naked. He began acts of cannibalism at the age of 11.He was a soldier in Liberia.
    Joshua and his men would place a bet on a pregnant woman on whatever she was carrying then slice her belly with a machete to prove who won the bet.He claimed more than 2000 lives. He is now a preacher.

. Bosco Ntaganda. Famously known as the terminator was a Congolese warlord who took part in rebellion that overthrew the Hutu lead in Rwanda.
He greatly violated human rights by recruitment of children into soldiers and encouragement of raping and assaulting women.He surrendered to the ICC and charged with 18 crimes.

  1. Jean Kambanda. As the prime minister of Rwanda,he was instrumental in the Rwanda genocide in 1994 that led to death of atleast half a million.
    He distributed arms and oversaw the roadblocks to identify Hutu and eliminate them.All survivors in hospitals were all killed.He was proven guilty and sentenced for life.

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