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00:10history is full of killer stories people places and events so downright shocking that we just
00:19can't forget them tonight a vicious dictator who rules by terror saddam hussein famously
00:27hangs his enemies in the streets of baghdad and gives an order that they not be cut down for weeks
00:33a ruler so monstrous he inspires one of the most infamous villains in literature
00:42while these men are bleeding out vlad sops his bread in their blood and proceeds to eat it
00:48and the power couple who bleeds their country dry marcos kills over 3 000 filipinos and he
00:56dumps their mutilated corpses on the street these are the tyrants so destructive and devious they
01:04can only be among history's deadliest ask anyone to name the worst tyrant of the 20th century
01:17and you'll probably hear names like hitler stalin mussolini but the son of a modest chinese farmer
01:25racks up a death toll higher than all three combined
01:33china in the early 20th century is a pretty brutal place you have a lot of people that are experiencing
01:40deep deep deep amounts of poverty one of those families is the family that mao tzedong is born
01:48into in 1893 he's a bookish librarian he wants to make china a much better place he wants to bring
01:55about ultimately a working-class revolution in 1921 mao helps found china's communist party and from there
02:04a revolution is born what result is a bloody civil war that goes on for decades it pits mao's communist
02:11party against chiang kai-shek's nationalist party by 1949 the communist party ends up winning that war
02:19mao is made president of china and his communist party is in power mao takes power by brutal force
02:28and holds on to it the same way anybody that opposes him he calls a counter-revolutionary he orders
02:35thousands arrested forces confessions and sets up trials if you're found guilty at these trials which
02:43you will be the two outcomes you're facing are either death by firing squad or being sent to
02:49a labor camp mao conducts public executions in front of large crowds he kills or terrifies into silence
02:57anybody that might oppose him mao's purge lasts three years and kills more than two million people
03:04but it's just the first step in mao's vision for a new china in 1958 mao announces his great leap
03:13forward his plan is to transform chinese society into a modern state one of the things that mao does
03:21is take over farming he simply believes that if he takes the peasants off of the land and instead
03:26turns it into collectives that these collectives are going to be able to massively increase
03:31production for these collectives to hit their quotas they massively over plant all these crops end up
03:39competing for space for nutrients and so what ends up happening is you have a lot of these crops that
03:44end
03:44up failing the communist leader needs someone or something to blame mao and the government come to
03:53the conclusion that the enemy of this farming initiative is a two-ounce bird called a sparrow
04:01he claims that the sparrow is eating so much of china's crops that's why they have smaller yields
04:08mao enlists the aid of the entire chinese population 600 million strong and he lets them know that it is
04:15the
04:15duty of every chinese citizen to kill any sparrow they see on site in just a few weeks more than
04:24a
04:24billion sparrows are killed across the country and the government declares it a tremendous success
04:30but mao's victory lap is cut short when a plague descends on chinese farms the sparrows main food source
04:40is insects but because a billion sparrows have been killed by the chinese population these locusts now have
04:48the ability to roam free the locusts who eat the grain in some places production is down 70 percent and
04:57what
04:57was supposed to be a way to feed the people leads to or contributes to the worst famine in modern
05:03history
05:05this famine which lasts from 1959 to 1961 leads to 45 million people dying from starvation that's almost
05:15seven percent of the country's population while his country suffers and starves now lives a life of
05:23luxury he travels around between his million dollar properties he's got beautiful women he lives the life
05:29of a rich man who does not understand that his people are starving mao's brutality allows him to stay
05:36in power until the year 1976 when finally he dies at the age of 82. to this day if you
05:43go to china you can
05:44actually see his body on display because when mao died his body was embalmed and placed in a glass coffin
05:50for all to see and all to pay reverence
05:57mao tries to destroy an entire bird species but that's nothing compared to this next tyrant
06:04who declares war on the ocean
06:09gaius julius caesar augustus germanicus is only 24 years old when he becomes emperor of rome in 37 a.d
06:18germanicus is rome's third emperor and he's about to become one of its most infamous he is the son
06:25of the general germanicus who is the nephew and adopted son of emperor tiberius he spends a lot of
06:31his youth growing up at camp with germanicus the soldiers call him caligula which means little boots
06:38initially he is beloved by the people he starts important public works projects he's engaging in
06:45political reforms and he actually participates in the games in the chariot races he is beloved
06:51but fate intervenes and sends caligula down a dark path just seven months after he becomes emperor
06:59he gets very very ill and the rumor is it might be the result of poisoning whatever the actual cause
07:07caligula rises from his sick bed a changed man and not for the better he comes out of it cruel
07:16and petty
07:17he revels in belittling people and humiliating them he makes the senators run alongside his chariot to
07:24talk to them he makes a game of betting their wives just to humiliate them as madness sets in
07:32caligula's behavior goes from cruel to pure evil he starts to kill or have killed everyone he sees as
07:42a threat he has his cousin killed he has the leader of his praetorian guard who is his friend killed
07:50it's not just that he has these people executed it's that he tells the executioners to draw it out
07:56for caligula's pleasure for as long as possible one of his favorite means of execution is them
08:02not joe at bestias which means death by wild animals
08:09they starve a lion or a tiger and then they throw you in the cage and watch it tear you
08:15apart
08:16at this point it becomes hard to describe caligula's behavior as anything other than a descent into madness
08:23he has himself declared a living god he has his horse elected consul which is the highest office
08:29in the roman republic and he claims that he himself is able to speak with jupiter the highest god of
08:36the
08:36roman pantheon his out of control behavior is matched by his out of control spending he spends 10 million
08:44sesterces which is the equivalent of about 40 million dollars today on a single dinner guests are given a
08:51drink made from crushed pearls and they're served food that is encrusted with gold
08:59caligula's crazy profligate spending has nearly bankrupted his empire and so he says
09:04i'm going to take an army and i'm going to loot britannia caligula leads a massive army of 200 000
09:11men to the shores of the english channel where he simply stops and instead of crossing the channel
09:18instead of invading britannia he has the soldiers gather seashells and then he says that those are
09:25the signs of the victory over the sea since you can't feed an army with seashells the roman senate
09:32decides to put an end to the madness january 24th 41 a.d finally it's too much and his praetorian
09:43guard
09:44kills him caligula only rules rome for four years but his reign leaves a lasting mark his brutal purges
09:57and his murders the way that he transforms the gladiatorial games into blood sport he really is
10:03one of rome's most infamous emperors and one of its deadliest
10:14saddam hussein stark's story begins long before he becomes a dictator the man known as the butcher
10:20of baghdad has a long and bloody past
10:27it's october 7th 1959 in baghdad and the iraqi leader at the time abdul karim kasim is driving in
10:35a motorcade down the street when suddenly gunfire emerges from all around him
10:42the would-be assassin a young saddam hussein takes a bullet to the leg but manages to limp away and
10:49avoid capture hussein may have botched the assassination but he's proven himself he is
10:55ruthless he's ambitious and he is willing to spill blood it's these deadly qualities that help saddam rise
11:03to power hussein quickly moves through into the upper echelons of the bath party first he's a vice
11:10president and then by 1979 he's president of iraq now that saddam has power he intends to keep it at
11:19any cost and that means not trusting anybody six days after saddam hussein takes power he calls an
11:27emergency meeting an emergency meeting of the bath party where he arrests 68 of the leading members
11:3322 are executed he has those executions filmed and the legend is that he will watch them later for his
11:42own entertainment three months later he has 14 people arrested on charges of trying to plot against him
11:49and he famously hangs them in the streets of baghdad for the public to see and gives an order that
11:54they
11:55not be cut down for weeks hussein is merciless with all iraqis but he directs his worst at the shia
12:02muslims
12:03and the kurds in the north on march 16 1988 he sets his sight on a kurdish town called halabja
12:09in north
12:10iraq he accuses them of being insurgents but in fact all they are is the wrong ethnicity saddam sends in
12:17army attack helicopters and they actually drop nerve agents and mustard gas chemical weapons on the
12:23unsuspecting village beneath them and this mist descends on a population of some 5 000 people
12:30seizing and vomiting and rolling on the ground this mass population being killed
12:38saddam's thirst for death and destruction is matched only by his appetite for self-indulgence
12:45he builds over a hundred palaces across iraq just outside of baghdad he creates one with 62 bedrooms
12:51gold plated fixtures italian marble but these creature comforts do little to put the butcher
12:59of baghdad at ease and there are a lot of people who want him dead he has his food tested
13:06for poison
13:07he has body doubles all over the place he can't bed down in the same place twice even though saddam
13:14spends decades sowing fear and terror he still wants to be loved he also wants to be an artist and
13:22a
13:22poet and he writes poetry and he writes a romance novel with himself featured on the cover but saddam's
13:29career as an author is cut short when on march 20th 2003 american forces invade iraq on a hunt for
13:38weapons of mass destruction
13:40it's no contest the iraqi defenses steamroll but saddam hussein manages to hide for eight months but not forever
13:49december 13th of 2003 saddam hussein is found hiding in a rural village in a spider hole
14:00he spends three years in prison demanding things like raisin bran and fruit loops and doritos as
14:06he writes poems about how much he hates the united states in the end saddam hussein is found guilty of
14:12crimes against humanity having killed a million of his own people and he's executed by hanging on december
14:1830th 2006 saddam hussein may have been a best-selling author but there's a 15th century tyrant who inspires
14:30one of the scariest characters in pop culture in 1462 a huge ottoman army of more than 90 000 men
14:41led by
14:42the sultan mehmed ii invades the country of wallachia but what mehmed sees outside the city of targoviste is
14:51horrifying
14:55thousands of turkish prisoners of war impaled on these sharp wooden spikes
15:06even for hardened soldiers this is beyond the pale
15:10mehmed and his army turn around and march right out of wallachia they'll call it the forest of the
15:16impaled and the message it sends is clear this is what awaits you when you threaten glad dracula also
15:24known as vlad the impaler vlad the third is not someone that takes too kindly to the ottoman empire as
15:33a
15:33child the ottomans take him and hold him as a hostage to bring his father to heel supposed to
15:39guarantee that they will behave they murder his father and his brother vlad's loss of his father
15:45and brother fuels his revenge vlad has learned from a very early age how to use cruelty and brutality
15:53as effective weapons of war his favorite form of punishment is as simple as it is savage impalement
16:02is a simple but brutal process you take a sharpened wooden stake often covered in oil and you insert
16:09it either vertically or horizontally into the victim's body then you raise the stake so that it's vertical
16:16and the victim slowly but surely slides down the pool ideally what you're trying to do is miss the major
16:25organs so that the person who is impaled hangs there alive for as long as possible while they die
16:33there's a story where vlad invites some of his political rivals to his home they are captured and they
16:42are impaled
16:47and legend has it that while these men are bleeding out vlad sops his bread in their blood
16:55and proceeds to eat it
17:00for years vlad's ferocious tactics intimidate his enemies but his own luck eventually runs out
17:09sometime in 1477 vlad is killed in battle outside of present-day bucharest it's possible that it was
17:16an ottoman ambush but it's also possible that he was killed by his own troops when you are that brutal
17:21you make a lot of enemies but his reputation remains and you can see how this man impaled and killed
17:29it goes on to inspire the dracula legend we know why vlad is called the impaler but why is the
17:41first
17:42star of russia called ivan the terrible there's a long list of reasons starting with a terrible childhood
17:53in the mid-16th century in moscow there is a dirty young boy wandering the halls of the royal palace
18:02but he's not some peasant or pauper he's actually the grand prince ivan vasilyevich
18:09ivan is orphaned and so he's scooped up by a group of corrupt noblemen known as the boyars
18:18now ivan in this situation is just filled with all of this rage towards his captors towards the
18:26boyars right so he ends up taking out a lot of his aggression on animals this is a precursor for
18:33a
18:33tendency to become a serial killer by the time he's in his early teens ivan has schemed his way into
18:41power and is ready to settle some scores he accuses one of the boyars of treason
18:48has him arrested and his sentence is to be thrown to a pack of starving hunting dogs
18:57and the man is torn to shreds
19:04after removing the boyars as a threat ivan declares himself the first czar of russia
19:11on january 16th 1547 when ivan is 16 something happens that changes everything he meets anastasia
19:22romanoff immediately falls in love and marries her she makes him feel comforted and so for the next 13
19:29years with anastasia by his side his rule over russia is level-headed but then anastasia dies suddenly
19:39in 1560 and ivan turns truly terrible he descends into violent paranoia and creates his own personal
19:50army so he puts together ultimately russia's first secret police they're called the oprychnik this unit
19:56contains 6 000 men and their job is to terrorize the population and they're pretty good at it
20:05in the winter of 1570 ivan learns that the city of novgorod which is located in northwestern russia
20:12is going to break away from russia and join lithuania the oprychniki show up at the gates
20:18and they just run through the city cutting down everyone murder mayhem
20:27and after six horrific weeks of this action around 12 000 people are dead and the city of novgorod
20:36is essentially just a burnt husk if ivan's reign ended here he would still be known as the terrible
20:44but he goes on for another 14 years in 1581 he beats his pregnant daughter-in-law and when ivan's
20:55son
20:55confronts his father about the beating ivan beats him over the head and kills him
21:02ivan the terrible responsible for the brutal deaths of tens of thousands of people ends up dying
21:13while he's playing a game of chess he just keels over dies right there on the board checkmate
21:24ivan the terrible glad the impaler these tyrants live up to their nicknames and so does the one
21:31whose countrymen call him the butcher
21:38it's january of 1971 the president of uganda milton nabote realizes that one of his colonels in
21:47the army has been embezzling so he determines that he's going to arrest him but before he gets a chance
21:54to do that he goes off to singapore to a meeting of the british commonwealth and that's a mistake this
22:01colonel named ivan gives a sense of what's going down and he realizes that he must now take offensive
22:09action while obote is gone he goes and takes over the palace and he essentially takes control of the
22:17country ivan promises the public that he needs just five years to undo all the corruption from
22:23the obote regime he says that after five years he will hold free and fair elections for the ugandan
22:28people it's a promise he doesn't keep instead he launches a brutal campaign to consolidate power
22:36he has sulaiman hussein the second in command of the army and beaten to death by his own troops
22:42he has the man's head cut off and he stores it in a freezer and shows it to people when
22:48a political
22:49adversary rises to confront him that adversary is captured his ears nose and lips are cut off he's
22:56disemboweled and set on fire and idi amin himself chooses to put a bullet in his head in 1976 it's
23:04time for amin to hold the elections he's promised instead he declares himself president for life
23:12and he gives himself this incredible title his excellency president for life field marshal al-haji
23:19dr idi amin dada lord of all beasts of the earth and fishes of the sea and conqueror of the
23:25british
23:25empire in africa in general and uganda in particular amin's title grows longer and the rumors grow
23:33louder people claim that he practices bizarre blood rituals there are credible reports that he is
23:40eating his enemy's flesh and drinking their blood he says that by doing this it allows him to control
23:47these people's spirits in 1977 idi amin arrests the archbishop of uganda a man named janani lagoon
23:55after he protests the disappearance of his countrymen the next day he releases a story that lagoon has died
24:01in a car accident when the body is released to his relatives it is riddled with bullet holes there are
24:09national and international protests over lagoon's murder the international community starts to impose
24:14sanctions on amin and his regime and the economy of uganda is about to collapse
24:20idi amin's terrifying and savage reign comes to an end with a whimper instead of a bang
24:28on april 11 1979 a bunch of tanzanian soldiers and ugandan rebels march in
24:35and capture the capital city of kampala uganda amin knows he has no chance to fight back so he escapes
24:43by helicopter officially ending his presidency the ugandan people celebrate idi amin's departure they
24:51tear down his pictures they burn his government buildings but amin himself is never tried for the
24:57murder of half a million ugandan citizens instead he settles in saudi arabia where he actually dies in
25:05exile at the age of 75. history's deadliest tyrants are usually men but there's one english princess
25:19who grows up to be a killer queen
25:24it's 1553 and england's 15 year old king edward vi is incredibly sick before he passes he wants his
25:33cousin lady jane gray to take over the throne edward vi is very protestant and the last thing he wants
25:41is for his sister mary the first to take over the throne because she is a devout catholic once he
25:48names
25:49lady jane gray as his heir edward vi passes away but mary is popular and many of the people see
25:57her as
25:58the legitimate heir to the throne so she is able to raise up an army march into london to popular
26:04acclaim
26:04and become crowned the queen of england now mary has some scores to settle the first thing she does
26:13is she places lady jane gray in the tower of london following that she arrests the duke of northumberland
26:20and publicly executes him
26:25it sends a message do not mess with her majesty
26:30still mary knows no monarch is secure without an heir so she starts casting about for someone
26:38to marry to produce an heir and the person she finally settles on philip ii of spain
26:44is a staunch catholic and that causes a lot of concern in england they're afraid that she's going to
26:50turn england catholic again and that england will be under the thumb of spain and that leads to a
26:57rebellion mary is able to put down the rebellion but she does so by more beheadings
27:06she realizes there's a particular risk from lady jane gray that she's going to be inspiring
27:11protestants as long as she's alive so she orders the execution of gray who is her 16 year old cousin
27:22following the death of lady jane gray queen mary passes heresy laws the heresy laws basically state
27:28that if you are somebody that is attempting to practice protestantism you are given three options
27:33the first is you are allowed to convert from protestant to catholic two you can leave the country
27:39or three you can die in february of 1555 the executions begin people whose only crime is attending a protestant
27:51church are burned at the stake the punishment of being burned at the stake is excruciating it's painful it
27:59takes time there's one infamous incident that turns public support for bloody mary to ash three women
28:11are being burned at the stake and one of them is pregnant the trauma of being burned at the stake
28:16sends the woman into labor and the baby literally is born while she's being burned spectators try to
28:23save the baby they are prevented by the guards it turns the public against mary she's no longer seen
28:29as a religious crusader she is seen as a monster the executions finally come to an end in 1558 and
28:37it's
28:38not because bloody mary has a change of heart it's because she dies on the throne at age 42 mary's
28:45half
28:46sister elizabeth the first takes control of the throne takes the crown and queen elizabeth the
28:51first who is a protestant brings protestantism back to england religion has been a source of conflict
29:03throughout history but if you think things get bloody between the catholics and protestants
29:09imagine what happens when a leader turns to voodoo
29:15it's 1957 and the republic of haiti is finally holding elections and one of the candidates
29:21is a mild-mannered doctor named francois duvalier he's viewed with great affection and they call him
29:29papadoc on september 22nd 1957 duvalier wins the election in a landslide
29:39but when the good doctor becomes president things change within weeks of taking office he changes
29:45the constitution i have been elected for president for life he starts to jail and kill his rivals and
29:53before the end of his first year in office he's had more than 300 people murdered like other tyrants
30:01duvalier soon recognizes he needs henchmen in 1959 he creates his own secret police force called the
30:11tauntaun macout his enforcers they roam the streets port-au-prince of the capital and everybody is terrified
30:19of them they are judge jury and executioner if you're even suspected of being a threat to duvalier you're
30:28either hacked to death or burned alive sometimes the bodies are dumped into crocodile infested waters
30:35to get rid of them but other times they're just left in the streets to send a message
30:44in 1963 a one-time duvalier ally named clement barbeau tries to overthrow him duvalier has him arrested but
30:52he escapes and as a consequence duvalier has every officer who let him get away shot to death
31:00what the dictator does next marks a strange turning point in his regime he orders every black dog in
31:09haiti to be killed he explains that clement has used voodoo to turn himself into a black dog in order
31:17to
31:17escape papa duck is said to be more than just a believer in voodoo some say he's also an active
31:26voodoo
31:27priest these rumors start to spread that he has supernatural powers that he can control your spirit
31:32everybody is afraid of him duvalier doesn't confine his alleged powers to haiti when he finds out that
31:43the united states government is trying to undermine him he puts a curse on president john f kennedy
31:49months later jfk is assassinated and many haitians are convinced it's duvalier's handiwork
31:58duvalier actually buys into his own hype at this point telling the people around him that he is
32:05immortal and invincible but no matter what he believes he is human and on april 21st 1971
32:13after years of ill health he finally dies heart disease and diabetes
32:23he's conquered more land than any other military leader in history he's more than a general he's also
32:31willing to kill by the millions chinghis khan is born in what is now northeastern mongolia in the year
32:411162 but he's not known as chinghis khan then he's known as temujin he's the son of a powerful warlord
32:48and according to legend he's born holding a blood clot which for the mongols was a sure sign of a
32:54mighty
32:55destiny the mongols are nomads who are known for living on the steppe they're also these expert
33:03horsemen and these fierce warriors but what they're not is unified temujin is able to build a coalition
33:13among all of these clans people see temujin as someone who can unite these clans under common cause
33:20under a common banner and so temujin starts to earn a brand new name they start calling him
33:28genghis khan and genghis khan when translated stands for universal ruler the newly declared khan's
33:36ambition to build a mongol empire has him eyeing his neighbor the jinn dynasty
33:44in the early 13th century the jinn dynasty in china controls huge and very wealthy swaths of
33:50territory to the south of the great wall genghis khan arrives at the dynasty's capital chengdu
33:56with 150 000 elite mongol warriors every mongol soldier is given a specific quota of people that they
34:06need to kill they enter the city and they massacre everyone that's inside he leaves behind pyramids of
34:15skulls piles of severed ears he is sending a clear message about what happens to those who resist
34:22but there's a method to khan's viciousness he leaves a few survivors to serve as messengers
34:29when chengiz khan and his army show up at a new city their reputation precedes them people are
34:35already terrified and as often as not they surrender without a fight not everyone gets the message
34:43in 1219 the kwarazmian empire neighboring empire murders a caravan full of mongol merchants and an envoy
34:52so this to jengiz khan is seen essentially as a huge insult and khan doesn't like to be insulted
35:03before the battle even begins jengiz khan orders his soldiers to kill every living thing they encounter
35:10women children livestock even cats and dogs
35:15when the mongols reach the city of otrar they find the official who gave the okay for the mongolian
35:22ambassador to be killed what they do is they pour molten silver into his eyes into his nose and down
35:32his
35:32throat
35:35in less than 10 years the kwarazmian empire which has several million people in its population
35:42is effectively wiped off the map but even in death khan remains one of the deadliest tyrants
35:50in history in the winter of 1227 chengiz khan falls off a horse and dies khan doesn't want anyone to
35:56know where his burial site is so everyone who's witness to the burial is killed
36:04by the time of his death chengiz khan rules an empire that stretches over more than five
36:09million square miles that is one of the largest empires the world has ever seen
36:13he's also responsible for the deaths of more than 40 million people about 10 percent of the earth's
36:19population at the time
36:26a dictator and his wife bankrupt their country but that's not the only thing that makes them true tyrants
36:37ferdinand and amelda marcos are the power couple that rules the philippines for over 20 years
36:43in 1954 the marcos met each other and it was love at first sight 11 days later they were married
36:52imelda is a beauty queen who comes from a well-connected family and ferdinand is a young
36:57and successful attorney marcos is rich handsome he's also a convicted murderer in 1935 he's 18 years old
37:08he murders one of his father's political rivals shoots him kills him dead he's tried for murder
37:16while on trial he completes law school writes his own defense and he is freed in 1940
37:24imelda doesn't seem to care about the murder conviction and neither do most filipinos
37:31they elect marco's president in 1965. when this happens the people of the philippines fall in love
37:39with this glamorous couple the two are really the kennedys of the philippines and while they are wildly
37:47popular among the filipino people there's a real dark side to their rule imelda will become known as
37:54the iron butterfly and ferdinand is about to undergo his own transformation in 1969 ferdinand is elected
38:05to a second term in a landslide but shortly after an economic crisis takes over the country the economic
38:11decline is causing protest so marcos declares martial law in september of 1972 marcos changes the
38:21constitution he enacts unlimited term limits and he arrests anyone who dare oppose him and shockingly
38:27the filipino people support most of his decisions because they believe that martial law will reduce crime
38:33by the end of the year thousands have been arrested with most never seeing a courtroom in fact many are
38:42never seen again martial law goes on for nine years over that period maybe 70 000 of his rivals are
38:49arrested
38:51prisoners in marcos's jails have their arms and legs broken before they're taken out and buried up to their neck
38:56in sugar cane fields where fire ants can crawl all over their face while the victim is unable to dig
39:01themselves out
39:02some prisoners have hydrochloric acid poured down their throats in the end more than 3 000 filipinos are
39:11killed with their bodies thrown out into the streets he dumps their mutilated corpses for everybody to see
39:22while they're busy crushing the philippines under martial law the marcos are also robbing it blind
39:32emelda famously has a collection of 3 000 pairs of designer shoes they buy five luxury condos in new
39:38york on fifth avenue it's estimated that they siphoned off over 10 billion dollars the country is in
39:46devastation people are going hungry in 1981 emelda is overseeing the building of the manila film center
39:53the project is over budget it's behind schedule so emelda orders a construction team to speed up and doing
39:59that causes a disaster the scaffolding collapses 169 workers die and she appears callous to it word
40:10spreads that people are still buried under the rubble when emelda restarts construction
40:15the tragedy is the beginning of the end for the marcos when the filipino people find out about this
40:23they are outraged there's no accountability for the tragedy there's no investigation into what
40:29happened and there's no compensation for the workers who were lost in the collapse
40:33in february of 1986 marcos is elected again in a clearly rigged election this time it spurs widespread
40:41revolt and under pressure he abandons the philippines he leaves in disgrace
40:50the family flies to honolulu where they're exiled until ferdinand's death at the age of 72 in 1989.
40:58incredibly as ferdinand dies in disgrace emelda's political career is far from over
41:06emelda marcos returns to the philippines she is elected to three terms in the philippine house
41:13of representatives despite all that they did some tyrants are born cruel while others learn to love it
41:25they leave a bloody trail of destruction on their way to becoming history's deadliest
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