Profiles twenty of the world's worst dictators, all whom are currently in power, with information on their crimes, strange personalities, mysterious backgrounds, government structure, and allies.

Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) -- Kim Jong-il (North Korea) -- Than Shwe (Burma) -- Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) -- Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan) -- Hu Jintao (China) -- King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) -- Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan) -- Seyed Ali Khamenei (Iran) -- Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) -- Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya) -- King Mswati III (Swaziland) -- Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) -- Aleksandr Lukashenko (Belarus) -- Fidel Castro (Cuba) -- Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea) -- Bashar al-Assad (Syria) -- Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia) -- Paul Biya (Cameroon) -- Choummaly Sayasone (Laos).