Fate of Dictators
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For reflection, here is the fate of some dictators around the world:

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Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin, leaving his generals to face the Nuremberg Trials, where they were sentenced to death.

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Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. military forces.

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Saddam Hussein, executed by hanging in 2006.

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Muammar Gaddafi, killed by gunfire in two stages.

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Nicolae Ceaușescu, executed by firing squad with his wife at a military base.

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Slobodan Milošević, charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. He died of a heart attack in the fifth year of his trial, before a verdict, halting the proceedings.

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Pol Pot, overthrown and arrested by his own movement in 1997 after a tragic toll of 1.7 million deaths.

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Augusto Pinochet, arrested in London following an international complaint filed in Spain for “genocide, terrorism, and torture.”

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Vladimir Putin can still avoid such a tragic end by immediately stopping the war and withdrawing his troops from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders, as acknowledged by the UN. In a few days, if new aggression occurs in eastern Ukraine, it will be too late for him.


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