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“The last dictator of Europe” has made it clear that he will protect his power with a gun in his hand until the last drop of blood, even if it is the blood of his son. Lukashenko is not the first leader to refuse to leave power, and Mykola Lukashenko is not the first son of a dictator to take up arms. History has seen many sad endings for authoritarian leaders who have ruled their states for many decades, Znak writes.
The children of Saddam Hussein: death with a gun in their hands
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was accused in 2003 of supporting international terrorism and secretly producing weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam had two sons, Udai and Kusai. Elder Udai, according to people in the government environment, was cruel and bloodthirsty. He was even accused of organizing torture of Iraqi athletes who did not achieve good results in international competitions. Udajus forced footballers to kick a concrete ball for a poor performance at the 1994 World Cup.
He allegedly ordered several more footballers to be tied to a post and whipped with straps to defeat Japan. There were also more serious complaints: rape, use of medieval torture methods, torture and murder of the military, and other things. Udai was considered Saddam’s heir, but was seriously wounded in the 1996 assassination and gave up hope of obtaining power from his father.
His younger brother, Kusay Hussein, was less eccentric, not much is known about his life. Iraqi dissidents claim that Kusay was not an “angel” either; he allegedly also dealt with political opponents of the Iraqi ruling family.
The brothers were killed by American specifications. Soldiers from the unit who broke into a hideout in Mosul in 2003. Hussein’s sons refused to give up and died with a gun in hand while dressed in one of the buildings.
Joining them was Mustafa, Kusay’s 14-year-old son, armed with a Kalashnikov machine gun. He was also killed: after exposing fire to Americans who appeared in the building, he was fatally shot.
The Iraqi dictator had three daughters who fled to Jordan after the fall of the regime, where they hid with the local royal family.
Children of Muammar Gaddafi: killed in NATO raids
In 2011, an uprising broke out in Libya, and the participants formed their own military units. During the civil war, the opposition army occupied the city of Sirto, where the then leader of the country, M. al-Gaddafi, hid. He was still trying to escape the siege, but his technical column was shelled by NATO aviation and Gaddafi himself was injured. The rebels managed to seize the former leader. Not only did they prosecute him for lynching, but they also filmed everything and made a video public.
His son, an advisor to the head of the National Security Service, Mutazim Gaddafi, was also killed on the same day. The circumstances of his death are unclear, but it is believed that he was killed after being taken prisoner.
Hamis, the youngest son of Muammar, who led one of the elite army’s specialties, also died during this war. partial.
Gaddafi had many children, nine of his own and two adopted. The eldest son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, was one of its trustees, but he rejected the proposal to become the country’s prime minister and did not hold any official position. He was detained by insurgents in 2011 and sentenced to death in 2015. However, he was not executed anyway, and in 2017, Saif was released and amnestied. It is true that the International Court of Justice has still declared its official search for crimes against humanity.
Saadis Gaddafi, the colonel’s third son, was a professional footballer and played in Libya and Italy. During the war, he fought with a gun in his hand on the side of the forces that supported his father. Following the defeat of the government army, he fled to Niger in 2011, where Gaddafi was granted political refugee status, but was still extradited to the then Libyan government in 2014. The latest news about Saadis dates back to 2018: He was acquitted of the murder charges but received a year in prison for “drinking and preserving alcohol.”
Another son of a former Libyan leader, Saif, spent most of his life in Munich, where he studied at university and lived in a rather bohemian environment, occasionally appearing in criminal news chronicles. He once broke into a guard at a strip club, the next time Ferrari seized him for catching too famous an engine. Saif was also suspected of organizing arms smuggling under the guise of a diplomatic mission.
When the civil war broke out in Libya, Saif returned to his homeland and was killed in NATO airstrikes.
Gaddafi also had a daughter, Aisha. The girl chose the path of war, received the rank of lieutenant general in the Libyan army. She fought on her father’s side during the war and also used her UN ties to sue NATO for her brother and daughter who were killed in the raids. Currently, the latest known information about her announces that the woman has received political asylum in Oman.
Chaušesku children: death from alcoholism
When riots broke out in Belarus, many also remember former Romanian President Nikolai Ceausescu, who was overthrown by the authorities and later shot by citizens who were dissatisfied with the tyrant’s rule along with his wife. N. Čaušesku left three children: two sons and a daughter. However, only one of them received these days.
The dictator’s daughter, Zoya, was attracted to the mathematician, but the parents did not like it. Anger reached such a level that the first institute to which she was employed by specialty was dissolved. Then Zoja got a job at another, where she did her research until the revolution. Zoja, along with the rest of the children, was arrested shortly after the parents’ shooting by the Čaušeskai family name. She was released from prison 8 months later without charge, but the revolution completely broke her. Back at the institute, she was not accepted to work and she was immersed in a swamp of alcohol: the press at that time wrote about the constant consumption of alcohol and romances with men. In 2006, a constipated smoker died of lung cancer at the age of 57.
The eldest son, Valentine, was adopted. Now he is 72 years old, he lives from 2,000. Pensions in Romanian leu (more than 400 euros). During the 1989 revolution, he ran the Steua football club, did not interfere in politics and tried to stay out of power. After her arrest, she, like Zoja, was released without charge. Now he is trying to prove in court that Nikolai and Elena Chaušescu were the “victims” of the 1989 events.
The fate of the young Niku Čaušesku was much more dynamic and tragic. As a child, he was a classic example of an irresponsible spoiled child. Already in school, he began to abuse alcohol a lot and rumors of his actions shook all of Bucharest.
Romanian Foreign Intelligence General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who fled to the United States in 1978 and sought political asylum there, claimed that Niku constantly raped women and got drunk in accidents. Niku was also a constipated gambling fanatic and played in casinos wherever he visited. After the revolution, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. But two years later, in 1992, he was prematurely discharged for cirrhosis of the liver. The dictator’s son died in hospital in 1996.
The authoritarian Belarusian president, faced with massive protests and demands for his resignation, has long been developing the now fully compromised idea that he will one day be replaced by his beloved 15-year-old son, Nicolas. However, for the Belarusians, the “last dictator of Europe” is already bored, if he manages to stay in power for a while with the help of Russia, the idea of ”transfer of power” now seems very far from reality.
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