Overview for dictatorships

Belarus Dictator Popular? How Would We Know?

I recently drew attention in an article for Frum Forum to the imminent threat to the life of Andrei Sannikov, the pro-democracy opposition leader of Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship. Robin Tim Weis’s riposte to my piece coincides with news that Sannikov has disappeared. If nothing else, …

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Written by Kapil Komireddi on Thursday November 17, 2011

A Clownish Killer

It is perhaps a shame that no one will have a chance to interrogate Gaddafi and find out the details of his regime’s involvement in crimes like the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103, the equally appalling but less cited bringing down of UTA Flight 772 in 1989, the bombing of the Berlin discothèq…

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Written by Jonathan Foreman on Friday October 21, 2011