Dancers in the Dooms of a dictator

Farce quickly turned to tragedy in the face of the dictator s rage.

The dictator novel came back into fashion in the 1970s, towards the end of the Boom.

His caricatures which did not please former autocratic ruler Zeine el Abidin Ben Ali, do not seem to please Tunisia s Islamists either.

Most importantly, Lagos leaves office having erased from the constitution the dictator s signature.

All of this brings to mind one of the great Spanish director Luis Buñuel s late films.

A dictator who has shown no concern for his people might actually prove quite talented at clinging to power.

Judge Guzmán also determined that the former dictator is not insane and knows right from wrong.

But Guzmán s efforts to bring the dictator to justice should not remain isolated.

Greece has seen the rise of an overtly fascist party, Golden Dawn, which proudly celebrates the legacy of former dictator Ioannis Metaxas.

In troubled times, during the dictatorship of Mussolini, Rita had secretly studied nerve fibers in a makeshift lab hidden in her home.

The emergence of a realistic dictator might allow NATO to withdraw most of its troops within a few years.

The liberal elite and intelligentsia rail against the dictator, confident that their country is primed for secular democracy.

Mrs. Bari lost her husband Abdoulaye Djibril Barry during one of the violent repressions in Guinea that were customary under the dictatorship of Sékou Touré.

Despite this, Solzhenitsyn seemed to accept Putin as a good dictator, whose silencing of his critics enhances Russia s soul.

On 11 September 1924, National Day of Catalonia, he was beaten at a demonstration against the banning of the Catalan language by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

After a three day chase, on Christmas Day, the dictator and his wife were captured, tried, and summarily executed by a kangaroo people s court.

Iraq s prime minister, Nuri el Maliki, representing the ruling Shi a Kurdish coalition, expressed the hope that the dictator s end would help to heal the sectarian divides.

And, besides, the Catalonian players feel uncomfortable with the national anthem, which was much promoted under the late dictator Francisco Franco, who hated Catalan nationalism.

His shot flew into the treetops, even as three bullets entered the bear s heart from the snipers who guaranteed the dictator s marksmanship.

Some Syrians who oppose President Bashar al Assad s regime, pointing to Baghdad in 2005, argue that the one thing worse than a cruel dictator is a sectarian civil war.

Window on Eurasia reports on an article in a Russian online publication about the efforts of Stalin's most devoted followers to revise, reprint and extend the Soviet dictator s collected works.

The campaign of the English republican Protector, Oliver Cromwell, involved uncompromising treatment of the Irish towns (most notably Drogheda and Wexford) that had supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.

When Iraqi Shiites, Kurds, and Marsh Arabs rebelled against Hussein, they believed that American forces would protect them against their brutal dictator s superior firepower.

This is not to suggest than an Islamist awakening in Pakistan is on the horizon, or that Pakistanis must choose between an unpopular autocrat or a Taliban style government.

Gone are the hopes that the boy dictator Kim Jong un and his regents are more interested in economic development than they are in following the Kim dynasty s traditional military first policies.

The overthrown Tunisian dictator must now regret that his security forces did not arrest Bouazizi and lock him up, rather than allow his public self immolation.

In one move, he reversed the Pakistani political dynamic being farthest from the dictator became more valuable than being closest to him.

In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.

After the death of her brother, she continued to remain a prominent philanthropist, but did not remain politically active until 1965 when she participated in the presidential election against military dictator Ayub Khan, only to lose the primary because of election rigging by the military.

But Guzmán s efforts to bring the dictator to justice should not remain isolated. Other judges and official bodies need to keep the pressure on Pinochet.

As coalition forces were routing the Iraqi army in February 1991, President George H.W. Bush encouraged the Iraqi people to take matters into their hands to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside.

Adopted in its present form by General Mohammad Zia ul Haq s military dictatorship more than three decades ago, the blasphemy law imposes a mandatory death penalty on anyone convicted of insulting Islam.

Putin s four hour news conference in December recalled nothing so much as Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu s demise at a staged mass meeting in 1989, when he was confronted by heckling and protests.

The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.

The event was videotaped, to be aired to an astonished nation the next day, but in the rush the cameraman s power cable was yanked from the wall as the convicted couple was dragged out to an open air courtyard.

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

Perhaps the most incongruous presence was Gen. Victor Stanculescu, a favorite of the Ceausescu s who only days before had reportedly organized their evacuation from the rooftop of the Central Committee.

At the same time, some institutions that could provide effective international oversight have been coopted, as demonstrated by Libya s leadership of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights while under the control of deposed dictator Muammar el Qaddafi.

Despite the extensive physical damage and loss of life inflicted on the country by some of Ben Ali s die hard supporters, the tense and dangerous few days that followed the dictator s fall did not change the course of the revolution.

A Cario based telecommunication company and the majority owner of North Korea s cellular network., Orascom corrected recent media reports which claimed that North Koreans have been banned from using mobile phone during a mourning period for North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il.

It was in her name that concerned Filipinos mobilized families and neighbors to confront the tanks, guns and barbed wire of the dictator's cohorts. And, in God's infinite wisdom, the militancy of common people burst forth in the non violent revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos.

Then they made statement after statement claiming that Syria was not Libya, and they would not allow another Western intervention to achieve regime change in another Arab country just because its people seemed upset with the local dictator.

In this quintessential failed state, this sort of elders wisdom may be the only option to start dealing with the quagmire created by the lawlessness that has gripped the country since the departure of the dictator Said Barre in 1991.

Here the old dictator can take some credit, for by re establishing the monarchy under King Juan Carlos just before he died, Franco provided Spain with a foundation on which to build anew.