They forgot Pol Pot. While the number of people he murdered is comparatively small his ideology and methods absolutely earn him a place on the list.
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The problem with a list like this is it is too small (10) to be productive. Evil walks among US daily. The longer list could be in the millions.
“They forgot Pol Pot”
If you read Rummell’s Death by government, he put Pol Pot and Hitler in an elevated status due to the speed of the genocides, and in Pol Pot’s case the very high percentage of the population he murdered.
So he has an element of intensity that he adds to the matrix of evil rather than just a raw body count.
“They forgot Pol Pot.”
They need another list for heavy-hitters in the minor leagues - Pol Pot probably killed proportionally more of his citizens than any of these other jerk-offs, but since he ran a little country, he never cranked up the really big numbers. Imagine if he was in charge of China!
In any case, that competition should include at least the following:
Pol Pot
Che Guevera (however the hell you spell his name)
the Castro boys
Chavez and Maduro in (what used to be) Venezuela
Idi Imin
some clown in another penny-ante African country who ended up eating the gonads of his predecessor
I’m sure others can add to the tin-pot dictator list