The Rettig Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettig_Report)-- 2,279 persons disappeared and were killed for political reasons.

Valech Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valech_Report)--approximately 30,000 tortured while several thousand were exiled.

Participated in Operation Condor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor) a campaign of political repressions in several SA countries. The "terror archives" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_archives), found in a police station in a suburb of Asunción Paraguay, listed 50,000 people murdered, 30,000 people disappeared and 400,000 people imprisoned.

Was said that Pinochet believed these operations were necessary in order to "save the country from communism".

Educated in Catholic schools. Had friends and sympathisers in the Vatican Frequently showed his devotion to the Virgin of Mount Carmel. (from The London Independent, Dec 11, 2006 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20061211/ai_n16903459 )

Attempted coup led to the Spanish Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War) which ended with Franco becoming dictator and leaving 190,000 to 500,000 dead with at least 50,000 executed. The victory was followed by from 15,000 to 25,000 summary executions and imprisonments, while many were put to forced labor.

Franco received important support from Hitler and Mussolini during the civil war

Personally signed or acknowedged every death sentence and ordered all Junta generals to perform massive public and summary executions to spread fear and reduce resistance among the civilians.

Assisted Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy most notably by sending troops known as the Blue Division to aid fighting the USSR.

Used violent police action to suppress or control non-government trade unions, political opponents, and Catalan or Basque separatists.

Called himself the defender of "Christian Europe" against "atheist Communism."

Rule was characterized by nationalism, the defence of Catholicism and the family, anti-Freemasonry, and anti-Communism.

Used public authorities to enforce Roman Catholic social mores mainly by using a law (the Ley de Vagos y Maleantes, Vagrancy Act) and civil marriages were declared null and void and had to be reconfirmed by the Catholic Church of Spain.

Led National Patriotic Front of Liberia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Patriotic_Front_of_Liberia) that initiated and participated in the Liberian Civil War charged with numerous abuses including massacres, torture, kidnapping and political assassinations. An estimated 50,000 and 200,000 people killed, and more than two million people forced from their homes.

Tied to the RUF rebels in Sierra Leone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Civil_War), which are accused of the use of child soldiers, killing, amputation and other atrocities . Said to have ties to Al-Qaeda.

Indicted on 654 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Special Court for Sierra Leone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Court_for_Sierra_Leone) His trial at The Hague on 11 counts opened June 4, 2007, but on August 20, 2007, Taylor ecieved a postponement of the trial until January 7, 2008.

According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[20] Taylor had extensive business dealings with televangelist Pat Robertson. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson (who also had business dealings with dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire) the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the state of Virginia concluded that Robertson diverted his ministry's donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation, but Attorney General of Virginia Mark Earley blocked any potential prosecution against Robertson.[11] (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_%28Liberia%29#Trial)

Charles Taylor has obtained spiritual and other advice from the evangelist Kilari Anand Paul.

Used murder and expulsion of opponants. Estimates of those killed are as high as 30,000.

Expelled most foreign bishops and replaced them with allies. Was excommunicated from the Catholic church, but later convinced the Vatican to allow him to nominate his own bishops.

Called himself "one with the Loas, Jesus Christ, and God himself." Picture of him shows a standing Jesus Christ with hand on his shoulder with the caption "I have chosen him".

Two Truth Commissions, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by his military regime, including massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population

His military regime was responsible in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War) one of the most violent in modern history. At least 200,000 were killed.

An estimated 50,000 leftists and political opponents were murdered in 1970s.

UN-backed official Truth Commission (the Historical Clarification Commission) maintained that there was a campaign of deliberate genocide against the Mayan ingenious population and perhaps as many as one million forced from their homes and many were put in re-education concentration camps and to put to work in the fields of Guatemalan land barons.

He left the Roman Catholic Church to became a minister in the California-based evangelical/pentecostal Church of the Word and is personal friends with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

His brother Mario Rios Montt is a Catholic bishop, suceeding the Bishop Gerardi (possibly assassinated) as head of the human rights commission charged with uncovering the truth of the disappearances associated with the Guatemalan military and his brother.

Drawing on his pentecostal beliefs, Ríos Montt invoked a modern apocalyptic vision comparing the four riders of the Book of Revelation to the four modern evils of hunger, misery, ignorance and subversion, as well as fighting corruption and what he described as the depredations of the rich. He said that the true Christian had the Bible in one hand and a machine gun in the other. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrain_Rios_Montt#Frijoles_y_Fusiles)

The founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State) now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He relied on forced labor for the extraction of rubber and ivory from the Congo which resulted in the deaths, torture and maiming of millions of Congolese.

The Force Publique was an army that was used to enforce the rubber quotas. Officers were white and soldiers were black, many were from the fierce cannibal tribes but others were kidnapped in their childhood and raised in Roman Catholic missions, where they received a military training in conditions close to slavery. They took and tortured hostages, flogged, and raped the natives, burned recalcitrant villages, and took human hands as trophies (they required soldiers to submit one hand for every bullet spent) on the orders of white officers to show that bullets hadn't been wasted and soldiers were paid their bonuses on the basis of how many hands they collected.

Linked to the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Anticommunist_Alliance) death squad

Estimates of at least 8,960 and up to about 30,000 Argentinians disappeared (desaparecidos) and most probably killed in the "Dirty War" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War)

Participated in Operation Condor (see Pinochet)

Estimates of several thousand Bolivians in political exile, 3,000 political opponents arrested, 200 killed, and many tortured, others simply disappeared

Participated in Operation Condor (see Pinochet)

Under Stroessner Paraguay became a haven for Nazi war criminals

Indigenous peoples were persecuted the most famous being the Aché tribe that were subject to genocide, enslavement, kidnapping, torture, rape and many other crimes and indignations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach%C3%A9).

Led RUF and AFRC, under the orders of Koroma, led armed attacks in Sierra Leone wherein the primary targets included civilians, humanitarian aid workers, and UN peacekeeping forces that included looting, murder, physical violence, mutilations (amputations), child soldiers, rape, as well as kidnapping women and girls to be sex slaves.

Indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law (See also Charles Taylor)

Gowon's division of the 3 Nigerian regions into 12 states was a trigger for Biafra to attempt secession and would lead to the Biafran or Nigerian Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafran_War) and the deaths of more than 100,000 soldiers and over a million civilians many due to starvation under a Nigerian blockade. It is claimeded that his army committed atrocities such as rape, wholesale executions of civilian populations and extensive looting and that the Nigerian Air Force targed civilian populations, relief centers and marketplaces.

His parents were missionaries for the Church Missionary Society, a group of evangelistic societies of the Anglican Church and other Protestant churches.

Riots in Bangui led to a massacre of around 100 civilians and a number of schoolchildren were arrested for protesting against wearing the expensive, government-required school uniforms.

Possible ties to "blood diamond" trade.

He was arrested and tried for treason, murder, cannibalism and embezzlement. He was cleared of the cannibalism charges but was sentenced to death on June 12, 1987.

He was educated by Catholic missionaries but soon became a soldier.

Breifly decided to convert to Islam and changed his name to Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa probably an attempt to get Libyan financial aid from Moammar al-Qadhafi. When no funds were forthcoming, he abandoned his new faith. He then converted back to Catholicism and had himself crowned in the Catholic cathedral in Bangui which cost over $20 million, consuming one third of the C.A.R.'s annual budget and all of France's aid that year.

At the end of his life he proclaimed himself the 13th Apostle and claimed to have secret meetings with the Pope.

Has been criticised for corruption, suppression of political opposition, mishandling of land reforresistance from Ndebele groups in the provinces of Matabeleland and the Midlands.

During the Gukurahundi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi) ethnic massacres more than 20,000 Ndebele civilians were killed by the North-Korean trained 5th Brigade.

Mugabe has waged a violent campaign against homosexuals and parliament introduced legislation banning homosexual acts. human rights abuses and racist policies. It is said that his economic policies have led to collapse and massive starvation.

He has been accused of committing mass murder between 1982 and 1985 when the military crushed armed resistance from Ndebele groups in the provinces of Matabeleland and the Midlands

Mugabe was raised as a Roman Catholic, studying in Marist Brothers and Jesuit schools, including the exclusive Kutama College.