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Qaboos bin Said al Said
overthrew his father to
become Sultan of Oman

Saddam Hussein drained the
wetlands, home to the Marsh
Arabs, forcing them out of
their settlements
The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol
Pot, orchestrated the Cambodian
genocide leading to the deaths of
25 per cent of the population

Adolf Hitler took advantage of the
Great Depression to rise to power,
as the people of Germany sought
desperate measures
Stalin transformed
Libyan leader the USSR from an
Muammar Gaddafi agrarian society to
was captured and an industrial power,
brutally killed by but at a huge cost
rebels, the events of
which were filmed
on a mobile phone

Idi Amin siezed Mao Zedong was responsible for
power of Uganda the deaths of an estimated 40 to 70
with a coup d’etat million people through starvation
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