RG-001 · 2011
Toppled dictator · Libya
Muammar Gaddafi — 42 years of personal rule, killed in a Sirte drainage pipe
2011 · Killed
RG-002 · 2003
Toppled dictator · Iraq
Saddam Hussein — 24 years of terror, executed at the end of a rope
2003 · Executed
RG-003 · 1945
Toppled dictator · Italy
Benito Mussolini — Fascism’s founder, shot and hung in a Milan square
1945 · Executed
RG-004 · 1989
Toppled dictator · Romania
Nicolae Ceaușescu — 24 years of cult rule, shot on Christmas Day
1989 · Executed
RG-005 · 1986
Toppled dictator · Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos — 21 years of plunder, undone in four days on EDSA
1986 · Overthrown
RG-006 · 1997
Toppled dictator · Zaire (Congo)
Mobutu Sese Seko — 32 years of looting, swept away by a rebel march
1997 · Overthrown
RG-007 · 1979
Toppled dictator · Uganda
Idi Amin — eight years of terror, ended by the war he started
1979 · Overthrown
RG-008 · 1979
Toppled dictator · Cambodia
Pol Pot — driven from Phnom Penh after a genocide of around two million
1979 · Overthrown
RG-009 · 1998
Toppled dictator · Indonesia
Suharto — 32 years of the New Order, undone by financial collapse
1998 · Resigned under pressure
RG-010 · 1989
Toppled dictator · Panama
Manuel Noriega — Panama’s strongman, captured in a US invasion
1989 · Captured
RG-011 · 2000
Toppled strongman · Serbia
Slobodan Milošević — toppled by a crowd, dead at the Hague before a verdict
2000 · Overthrown
RG-012 · 1959
Toppled dictator · Cuba
Fulgencio Batista — the dictator who fled Havana at midnight on New Year’s
1959 · Overthrown
RG-013 · 1986
Toppled dictator · Haiti
Jean-Claude Duvalier — “Baby Doc,” who inherited a dictatorship at 19 and lost it at 34
1986 · Overthrown
RG-014 · 1989
Communist regime · East Germany
The East German Regime — a one-party state that collapsed the year its people stopped fearing it
1989 · Collapsed
RG-015 · 2011
Toppled dictator · Tunisia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — 23 years of police rule, ended by a single act of despair
2011 · Overthrown