I think you're right. He is a brutal thug who only stays in power through the torture and murder of his enemies and their families. I think we will see a lot of blinking faces crawling out of prisons and a lot of reunited families when he is overthrown.
Not that the media will carry any of their stories or show the physical scars they bear because this nut is in power - abstract ideas of "peace" are more palatable to viewers with low threshholds for the truth. Protestors will not confront these facts either. Abstract good intentions are enough for folks who want to feel good about themselves in between TV shows or while pondering which book to be seen reading at the Expresso Hut.