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This week in PARADE, contributing editor David Wallechinsky presents his list of the world’s 10 worst living dictators. Here, you can check out Wallechinsky’s “Dishonorable Mentions” list, 10 more tyrants whose deeds inspire fear and enmity. Also, listen to an exclusive interview with Wallechinsky, and visit the Web sites of human rights groups that keep tabs on the world’s worst leaders.

Terrible ten:

1. KIM Chong-il, North Korea (63 years, at power since 1995),
2. General Than Shwe, Burma (71, 1993),
3. Hu Jintao, China (61, 2002),
4. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe (80, 1980),
5. Prince Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia (80, 1995),
6. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea (61, 1979),
7. Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, Sudan (59, 1989),
8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan (64, 2001),
9. Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba (77, 1959),
10. King Mswati III, Swaziland (35, 1986),
11. Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya (61, 1969),
12. Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan (66, 1990),
13. Bashar al-Assad, Syria (38, 2000),
14. Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, Somalia (62, 2000),
15. Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus (49, 1994),
16. Khamyai Siphandon, Laos (80, 1998),
17. Tran Duc Luong, Vietnam (66, 1997),
18. Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea (59, 1993),
19. Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo (34, 2001),
20. Paul Kagame, Rwanda (47, 2000).

The parade is compiled according to materials of international organizations: Freedom House, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders.