Liberia - Samuel Doe and the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) and Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL)

The now dead Doe, a Krahn, was a 28-year-old master sergeant who put an end to the line of wealthy coffee-colored descendants of freed black slaves from America when he overthrew and executed Tolbert and 13 ministers. That he televised their executions didn't bode well for Liberia's future. When a coup was attempted, Doe's soldiers drove around Monrovia, publicly displaying the offenders' severed testicles. Hey, its like show and tell around here.

Sam Doe was applying his newfound financial genius. He managed to plunge the country deeper into debt by printing new money to pay the bills, while bumming millions of dollars in foreign aid. He did manage to cut all government workers' salaries by $10.

He was offered safe passage out of Liberia by the U.S. government (we provide free chauffeur service to all our favorite dictators), but he turned it down. Probably because Doe lived in luxury on the fifth floor of the Executive Mansion, with his two pet lions (which he fed with his many victims) and protected by his Israeli-trained bodyguards. Until one day in September of 1990, when he went to visit the ECOWAS headquarters. (See "Prince Johnson.") His memory lives on with the Krahn tribe and the highfalutin-sounding ULIMO group, which controls small pockets near the Sierra Leone border (from its base in Freetown) and Tubmanburg.