"Dictature éclairée" - un oxymore?

[benam]

Eclairée ou pas, une dictature finit toujours par perdre le sens de la mesure s'il n'y a pas face à elle des contre-pouvoir quelconques et bien établis pour l'obliger à peser continuellement et sérieusement le pour et le contre de ses décisions.

[rouge et or]

ben le chili de pinochet

une dictature, qui a défendu son idéologie, bati un pays, la ramené à la domocratie et a fait face à ces acts. faut etre a sacré dictateur pour mener son pays à la democratie

[Tchektchouka]

Tu as raison Annabi, même si la qualité de l'éclairage est top, le risque du blackout est conséquent.

Oui vous avez tous raison, une dictature reste une dictature - un système de gouvernance instable, même si ça peut donner des résultats immédiats parfois même de bons résultats.

Mais ce que je trouve remarquable, c'est comment un dictateur peut gouverner pour des années (Kim Il-Sung par exemple, avait fait 50 ans au pouvoir) sans que le peuple se révolte: une seule personne contre des millions!

Certains listings classifient Boumédiène et Attaturk comme dictateurs éclairés/ bénins. J'ai trouvé ce Top 10 des pires dictateurs vivants sur Google:

1- Kim Il-Sung North Korea (in power since 1994)

The US committee for Human Rights estimates that there are approximately 150,000 Koreans performing forced labour in prison camps for political dissenters and their families. Contrary to popular belief, Kim Jong Il is actually a very clever and efficient manipulator of his people. He is also the author of the books On the Art of the Cinema, and On the Art of Opera.

2- Than Shwe, Burma (in power since 1992)

Burma has more child soldiers than any country in the world and the Burmese regime continues to kidnap citizens to force them to serve as porters for the military in conflicts against non-Burmese ethnic groups. In 1990 the party of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi won 80% of the vote in an open election. The military cancelled the results. Suu Kyi has spent most of the years since then under house arrest. On May 31, 2003 hired thugs attacked Suu Kyi’s motorcade, killing several of her supporters and arresting dozens of others including Suu Kyi herself.
Shwe is a very private figure, preferring to work behind the scenes. Consequently, even the Burmese people know very little about him.

3. Hu Jintao, China (in power since 2002)

Now that he is General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Hu, although not all-powerful, is the leader of an unusually repressive regime. The communist party still controls all media, and uses 40,000 internet security agents to monitor online use. More than 200,000 Chinese are serving re-education sentences in labour camps and China performs more than 4,000 executions every year, more than all of the other nations of the world combined, and many of them are for non-violent crimes.

4. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe (in power since 1980)

Mugabe has been accused of blocking the delivery of food aid to groups and areas that support the main opposition party. He has continued to hold elections, but has restricted the opposition’s ability to campaign and has shut down media that do not support him. When opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won 42% of the vote, Mugabe had him arrested and charged with treason. Mugabe has also confiscated farms owned by white people and turned them over to his supporters.

5. Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia (in power since 1995)

According to the US State Department, Saudi Arabia continues to engage in arbitrary arrest and torture. During a human rights conference in 1995, Saudi authorities arrested non-violent protesters who were calling for freedom of expression. Some were later flogged, the usual punishment for alleged political and religious offenses. In a very unusual show of power, the religious forbade children from playing with Barbie dolls, which they dubbed ‘Jewish dolls’ that are ‘symbols of decadence of the perverted West’.

6. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (in power since 1979)

There is no public transport, no newspapers, and only 1% of government spending goes to health care. When asked why so much of his nation’s oil money is deposited into his personal account at the Riggs Bank in Washington, DC, Obiang explained that he keeps total control of the money in order to ‘avoid corruption’.

7. Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan (in power since 1989)

Al-Bashir seized power in a military coup and immediately suspended the constitution, abolished the legislature, and banned political parties and unions. He has tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the main rebel group, but he insists that the nation be ruled according to Islamic Shari’a law, even in southern Sudan, where the people are Christian and animist.

8. Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan (in power since 1990)

Since taking charge of this former Soviet republic in central Asia, Niyazov has developed the world’s most extreme personality cult, challenged only by that of Kim Jong Il. Niyazov’s picture appears on all Turkmen money, there are statues of him everywhere, and he renamed the month of January after himself. His book, Book of the Soul, is required reading in all schools at all levels, and all government employees must memorize sections of it in order to keep their jobs.
Niyazov rules without opposition. As he put it, ‘There are no opposition parties, so how can we grant them freedom?’.

9. Fidel Castro, Cuba (in power since 1959)

Cuba remains a one party state with all of the power in the hands of Castro. The courts are controlled by the executive branch (in other words, Castro). He traditionally blames all of his country’s problems on the USA.

10. King Mswati III, Swaziland (in power since 1986)

In an attempt to appease international opinion, Mswati approved the drafting of a new constitution to replace the one that his father had suspended 30 years earlier. However the new constitution bans political parties, allows the death penalty for any criminal offense, and provides for the reintroduction of debtors’ prisons.