Current totalitarian country leader #1

My first pick, and someone that really stood out to me, was Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan.


Now, just reading for five minutes, and I already don't fancy what this guy does. He came to presidency in early 1991, with 85% of the votes, and like many other communist leaders was instantly accused of falsifying the ballots. There is no doubt in my mind, that the accusations are true and that these elections will continue to be "counted" the same way until this guy is dead.
He, to this day, complicates the registration process for other running parties when elections come around making it nearly impossible to even try to overthrow him through a fair election (that is to say if he didn't fake the results anyways).He was pushed, make that supported, into presidency by another communist leader Shukrullo Mirsaidov, among some other communist superpowers around the world.


This man has tossed over 65,000 (number taken from here) political "prisoners" into jail, and says that any single soul that tries to oppose him is an "Islamic terrorist". When these people get to the jail he tortures him, and has even boiled two people alive.


On May 13 2005, this mans troops killed hundreds of people that were peacefully protesting his presidency. This happened in Andijan, Uzbekistan, in what is known as the Andijan massacre. The official "government count" of the dead were 187, but it is rumoured that the numbers got into hundreds more. The Uzebek government stated that this protest was in the name of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic movement of Uzbekistan. 


Unfortunately, when President Bush was in power, Uzbekistan and the United States were in close relations, and Bush even went as far as to have troops stationed there. When the US government tried to issue an internal investigation of the matters in Andijan, Karimov decided it would be best to cut some ties with the US and side 
more with Asian governments.


This man has been in power for 20 years, and has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of peaceful citizens, the torture of many more, crazy amounts of slander, and undeniable falsifications of ballots within his country. All these people are trying to do is have a democratic system installed within their country.