Unleashed misery and hopelessness on a people living in a rich and wonderful land to feed his own greed and vanity.
Attempting to make bullying and thuggery acceptible behaviour for those in the public eye.
Mistook conviction for wisdom. Was complicit in unleashing death and misery on the people of Iraq whom he failed to protect.
His cut and run strategy at the Partition of India displaced fourteen and a half million people without preparation for their care. Hundreds of thousands died.
Inflamed nationalist feelings to turn neighbour against neighbour and unleash torture, death and misery.
I have ignored the usual suspects: Hiltler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the horribly fashionable Saddam whose crimes are so horrific or well known that further comment is pointless. But let us never forget them and remember that they all had and still have friends and admirers.
At a time when she was Minister for the Family and Women's Development in Rwanda, it is alleged that she incited militiamen under her command to rape women before killing them. She is also accused of providing petrol from the tank of her own car to dowse a group of women before they were set alight.
Casting truth to the wind he turned one friend against another making the USA, supposed home of the free, into a Stazi state.
He disfigured civilization from a position of power in a nation that should know better.
The world's arch hypocrite. He gave us the power of organised crime and underpinned corruption in US politics.