Page 12 - All About History - Issue 38-16

Thirty-foot-tall bronze sculptures of former
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sit on the
grounds of the Republican Palace in Baghdad

Dictators

Over two millennia of absolute
power corrupting absolutely

A S a u d i A r a b i a n - l e d i nt e r ve nt i o n o n Y e m e n
A Saudi Arabian-led intervention on Yemen
A Saudi Arabian-led intervention on Yemen
began in 2015 to secure the internationally
recognised but domestically disputed
presidency of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi

Between 1982 and 1985,
over 20,000 people died in
ethnic cleansing instigated
by Robert Mugabe

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