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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
00:34a ruler so monstrous he inspires one of the most infamous villains in literature while these men
00:43are bleeding out vlad sops his bread in their blood and proceeds to eat it and the power couple who
00:50bleeds their country dry marcos kills over 3 000 filipinos and he dumps their mutilated corpses
00:58on the street these are the tyrants so destructive and devious they can only be among history's
01:07deadliest ask anyone to name the worst tyrant of the 20th century and you'll probably hear names like
01:19hitler stalin mussolini but the son of a modest chinese farmer racks up a death toll higher than
01:28all three combined china in the early 20th century is a pretty brutal place you have a lot of people
01:40that are experiencing deep deep deep amounts of poverty one of those families is the family that
01:46Mao Zedong is born into in 1893 he's a bookish librarian he wants to make china a much better
01:54place he wants to bring about ultimately a working-class revolution in 1921 Mao helps found
02:01china's communist party and from there a revolution is born what result is a bloody civil war that goes
02:08on for decades it pits Mao's communist party against chiang kai-shek's nationalist party by 1949
02:16the communist party ends up winning that war Mao is made president of china and his communist party
02:23is in power Mao takes power by brutal force and holds on to it the same way anybody that opposes
02:32him
02:32he calls a counter-revolutionary he orders thousands arrested forces confessions and sets up trials
02:41if you're found guilty at these trials which you will be the two outcomes you're facing are either
02:46death by firing squad or being sent to a labor camp Mao conducts public executions in front of large
02:53crowds he kills or terrifies into silence anybody that might oppose him
02:59Mao's purge lasts three years and kills more than two million people but it's just the first step in
03:07Mao's vision for a new china in 1958 Mao announces his great leap forward his plan is to transform
03:15Chinese society into a modern state one of the things that Mao does is take over farming he simply
03:23believes that if he takes the peasants off of the land and instead turns it into collectives that these
03:29collectives are going to be able to massively increase production for these collectives to hit
03:34their quotas they massively over plant all these crops end up competing for space for nutrients and so
03:42what ends up happening is you have a lot of these crops that end up failing the communist leader needs
03:48someone or something to blame Mao and the government come to the conclusion that the enemy of this farming
03:57initiative is a two ounce bird called a sparrow he claims that the sparrow is eating so much of china's
04:05crops that's why they have smaller yields Mao enlists the aid of the entire chinese population 600 million
04:13strong and he lets them know that it is the duty of every chinese citizen to kill any sparrow they
04:20see on
04:21site in just a few weeks more than a billion sparrows are killed across the country and the government declares
04:28it a tremendous success but Mao's victory lap is cut short when a plague descends on chinese farms
04:38the sparrows main food source is insects but because a billion sparrows have been killed by the chinese
04:46population these locusts now have the ability to roam free the locusts eat the grain in some places
04:54production is down 70 percent and what was supposed to be a way to feed the people leads to or
05:01contributes
05:01to the worst famine in modern history this famine which lasts from 1959 to 1961 leads to 45 million people
05:12people dying from starvation that's almost seven percent of the country's population while his
05:19country suffers and starves now lives a life of luxury he travels around between his million dollar
05:26properties he's got beautiful women he lives the life of a rich man who does not understand that his
05:31people are starving Mao's brutality allows him to stay in power into the year 1976 when finally he dies at
05:40the
05:40age of 82. to this day if you go to china you can actually see his body on display because
05:47when Mao died his
05:48body was embalmed and placed in a glass coffin for all to see and all to pay reverence to
05:57Mao tries to destroy an entire bird species but that's nothing compared to this next tyrant who declares war
06:06on the ocean guys julius caesar augustus germanicus is only 24 years old when he becomes emperor of rome in
06:1637
06:17a.d germanicus is rome's third emperor and he's about to become one of its most infamous he is the
06:24son of
06:25the general germanicus who is the nephew and adopted son of emperor tiberius he spends a lot of his youth
06:32growing up at camp with germanicus the soldiers call him caligula which means little boots initially
06:39he is beloved by the people he starts important public works projects he's engaging in political
06:45reforms and he actually participates in the games in the chariot races he is beloved but fate intervenes
06:53and sends caligula down a dark path just seven months after he becomes emperor he gets very very
07:01ill and the rumor is it might be the result of poisoning whatever the actual cause caligula rises from
07:10his sick bed a changed man and not for the better he comes out of it cruel and petty he
07:18revels in belittling
07:20people and humiliating them he makes the senators run alongside his chariot to talk to them he makes a
07:26game of betting their wives just to humiliate them as madness sets in caligula's behavior goes from cruel to
07:36pure evil he starts to kill or have killed everyone he sees as a threat he has his cousin killed
07:46he has
07:46the leader of his praetorian guard who is his friend killed it's not just that he has these people executed
07:53it's that he tells the executioners to draw it out for caligula's pleasure for as long as possible
07:59one of his favorite means of execution is them nacho at bestias which means death by wild animal
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
08:30in 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
08:44sister seats which is the equivalent of about 40 million dollars today on a single dinner guests are
08:50given a drink 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 i'm going to
09:05take an army and i'm going to loot britannia caligula leads a massive army of 200 000 men to the
09:12shores of the
09:13english channel where he simply stops and instead of crossing the channel instead of invading britannia
09:20he has the soldiers gather seashells and then he says that those are the signs of the victory
09:26over the sea since you can't feed an army with seashells the roman senate decides to put an end to
09:34the
09:34madness january 24th 41 a.d finally it's too much and his praetorian guard kills him
09:49caligula 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's dark story begins long before he becomes a dictator the man known as the butcher of
10:20baghdad 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
10:50capture hussein may have botched the assassination but he's proven himself he is ruthless he's ambitious
10:57and he is willing to spill blood it's these deadly qualities that help saddam rise to power
11:05hussein quickly moves through into the upper echelons of the bath party first he's a vice president and then
11:11by 1979 he's president of iraq now that saddam has power he intends to keep it at any cost
11:20and that means not trusting anybody six days after saddam hussein takes power he calls an emergency
11:28meeting of the bath party where he arrests 68 of the leading members 22 are executed he has those
11:37executions filmed and the legend is that he will watch them later for his own entertainment
11:44three 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
11:54that they not be cut down for weeks hussein is merciless with all iraqis but he directs his worst at
12:02the shia muslims and the kurds in the north on march 16 1988 he sets his sight on a kurdish
12:08town called
12:09halabja in north iraq he accuses them of being insurgents but in fact all they are is the wrong
12:15ethnicity saddam sends in army attack helicopters and they actually drop nerve agents and mustard
12:21gas chemical weapons on the unsuspecting village beneath them and this mist descends on a population
12:28of some 5 000 people seizing 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
12:52gold-plated fixtures italian marble but these creature comforts do little to put the butcher of
13:00baghdad at ease and there are a lot of people who want him dead he has his food tested for
13:06poison
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 20 2003 american forces invade iraq on a hunt for
13:38weapons of mass destruction it's no contest the iraqi defenses steamroll but saddam hussein manages to hide
13:45for eight months but not forever december 13th of 2003 saddam hussein is found hiding in a rural village
13:56in a spider hole he spends three years in prison demanding things like raisin bran and fruit loops
14:05and doritos as he writes poems about how much he hates the united states in the end saddam hussein
14:11is found guilty of crimes against humanity having killed a million of his own people and he's executed
14:17by hanging on december 30th 2006. saddam hussein may have been a best-selling author but there's a 15th
14:28century tyrant who inspires one of the scariest characters in pop culture
14:37in 1462 a huge ottoman army of more than 90 000 men led by the sultan mehmed ii invades the
14:45country of
14:45wallachia but what mehmed sees outside the city of targoviste is horrifying
14:55thousands of turkish prisoners of war impaled on these sharp wooden spikes
15:06even for hardened soldiers this is beyond the pale mehmed and his army turn around and march right out
15:13wallachia they'll call it the forest of the impaled and the message it sends is clear this is what awaits
15:21you when you threaten glad dracula also known as glad the impaler vlad the third is not someone that
15:30takes too kindly to the ottoman empire as a child the ottomans take him and hold him as a hostage
15:36to
15:37bring his father to heal supposed to guarantee that they will behave they murder his father and his
15:42brother vlad's loss of his father and brother fuels his revenge vlad has learned from a very early age
15:51how to use cruelty and brutality as effective weapons of war his favorite form of punishment
15:57is as simple as it is savage impalement is a simple but brutal process
16:05you take a sharpened wooden stake often covered in oil and you insert it either vertically or
16:11horizontally 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 pole ideally what you're trying to do is miss
16:24the major organs so that the person who is impaled hangs there alive for as long as possible while they
16:32die there's a story where vlad invites some of his political rivals to his home they are captured and
16:42they are impaled and legend has it that while these men are bleeding out vlad sops his bread in their
16:54blood
16:54and proceeds to eat for years vlad's ferocious tactics intimidate his enemies but his own luck
17:07eventually runs out sometime in 1477 vlad is killed in battle outside of present-day bucharest
17:14it's possible that it was an ottoman ambush but it's also possible that he was killed by his own troops
17:20when you are that brutal you make a lot of enemies but his reputation remains and you can see how
17:27this
17:27man who impaled and killed goes on to inspire the dracula legend
17:37we know why blad is called the impaler but why is the first of russia called ivan the terrible
17:45there'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 boyars
18:26right so he ends up taking out a lot of his aggression on animals this is a precursor for a
18:33tendency to become a serial killer by the time he's in his early teens ivan has schemed his way into
18:41power
18:41and is ready to settle some scores he accuses one of the boyars of treason has him arrested and his
18:50sentence 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
19:12on january 16th 1547 when ivan is 16 something happens that changes everything
19:20he meets anastasia romanoff immediately falls in love and marries her she makes him feel comforted and
19:29so for the next 13 years with anastasia by his side his rule over russia is level-headed
19:35but then anastasia dies suddenly in 1560 and ivan turns truly terrible he descends into violent paranoia
19:48and creates his own personal army so he puts together ultimately russia's first secret
19:54police they're called the oprychnik this unit contains 6 000 men and their job is to terrorize
20:00the population and they're pretty good at it in the winter of 1570 ivan learns that the city of
20:09novgorod which is located in northwestern russia is going to break away from russia and join lithuania
20:15the oprychniki show up at the gates and 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
20:54and when ivan's son confronts 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 blad the impaler these tyrants live up to their nicknames and so does the one
21:32whose countrymen call him the butcher
21:38it's january of 1971 the president of uganda milton nabote realizes that one of his colonels in the army
21:47has been embezzling so he determines that he's going to arrest him but before he gets a chance to
21:54do that he goes off to singapore to a meeting of the british commonwealth that's a mistake this colonel
22:01named idi amin 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
22:14country idi amin promises the public that he needs just five years to undo all the corruption from the
22:24obote 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 suleiman hussein the second in command of the army and beaten to death by his own troops
22:43he has the man's head cut off and he stores it in a freezer and shows it to people when
22:49a political
22:49adversary rises to confront him that adversary is captured his ears nose and lips are cut off
22:55he's disemboweled and set on fire and idi amin himself chooses to put a bullet in his head
23:02in 1976 it's time for amin to hold the elections he's promised instead he declares himself president
23:11for life and he gives himself this incredible title his excellency president for life field marshal
23:18al-haji doctor idi amin dada lord of all beasts of the earth and fishes of the sea and conqueror
23:25of
23:25the british empire in africa in general and uganda in particular amin's title grows longer and the rumors
23:33grow louder people claim that he practices bizarre blood rituals there are credible reports that he is
23:41eating his enemies 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 lewum
23:55after he protests the disappearance of his countrymen the next day he releases a story that lewum has died in
24:02a car accident when the body is released to his relatives it is riddled with bullet holes there are
24:09national and international protests over lewum's murder the international community starts to impose
24:14sanction 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
24:29on april 11th 1979 a bunch of tanzanian soldiers and ugandan rebels march in and capture the capital
24:38city of kampala uganda amin knows he has no chance to fight back so he escapes by helicopter officially
24:45ending his presidency the ugandan people celebrate idi amin's departure they tear down his pictures they
24:53burn his government buildings but amin himself is never tried for the murder
24:57of half a million ugandan citizens instead he settles in saudi arabia where he actually dies in exile
25:05at the age of 75.
25:14history's deadliest tyrants are usually men but there's one english princess who grows up to be a killer queen
25:24it's 1553 and england's 15 year old king edward the sixth is incredibly sick before he passes he wants
25:33his cousin lady jane gray to take over the throne edward the sixth is very protestant and the last thing
25:40he
25:40wants is for his sister mary the first to take over the throne because she is a devout catholic once
25:48he
25:48names lady jane gray as his heir edward the sixth passes away but mary is popular and many of the
25:57people
25:57see her as the legitimate heir to the throne so she is able to raise up an army march into
26:03london to popular acclaim
26:05and 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 still mary knows no monarch is secure without an heir
26:35so she starts casting about for someone to marry to produce an heir and the person she finally settles
26:42on philip ii of spain is a staunch catholic and that causes a lot of concern in england they're afraid
26:49that she's going to turn england catholic again and that england will be under the thumb of spain
26:55and that leads to a rebellion
27:00mary is able to put down the rebellion but she does so by more beheadings
27:07she 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
27:48only crime is attending a protestant church burned at the stake the punishment of being burned at the
27:56stake is excruciating it's painful it takes time there's one infamous incident that turns public
28:07support for bloody mary to ash three women are being burned at the stake and one of them is pregnant
28:15the trauma of being burned at the stake sends the woman into labor and the baby literally is born
28:20while she's being burned spectators try to save the baby they are prevented by the guards
28:26it turns the public against mary she's no longer seen as a religious crusader she is seen as a monster
28:34the executions finally come to an end in 1558 and it's not because
28:38bloody mary has a change of heart it's because she dies on the throne at age 42 mary's half sister
28:46elizabeth the first takes control of the throne takes the crown and queen elizabeth the first who is
28:53a protestant brings protestantism back to england
29:00religion has been a source of conflict throughout history but if you think things get bloody between the
29:07catholics and protestants imagine 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
29:20is a mild-mannered doctor named francois duvalier
29:25he's viewed with great affection and they call him papa doc
29:30on september 22nd 1957 duvalier wins the election in a landslide but when the good doctor becomes
29:41president things change within weeks of taking office he changes the constitution i have been elected
29:48for president for life he starts to jail and kill his rivals and before the end of his first year
29:55in
29:55office he's had more than 300 people murdered like other tyrants duvalier soon recognizes he needs
30:04henchmen in 1959 he creates his own secret police force called the ton ton macout his enforcers they roam
30:15the streets of port-au-prince of the capital and everybody is terrified of them they are judge jury and
30:22executioner if you're even suspected of being a threat to duvalier you're either hacked to death or
30:29burned alive sometimes the bodies are dumped into crocodile infested waters to get rid of them
30:37but 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
31:01what the dictator does next marks a strange turning point in his regime he orders every black
31:09dog in haiti to be killed he explains that clement has used voodoo to turn himself into a black dog
31:17in
31:17order to escape papa duck is said to be more than just a believer in voodoo some say he's also
31:25an active
31:26voodoo priest these rumors start to spread that he has supernatural powers and he can control your spirit
31:33everybody 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
32:30also willing to kill by the millions
32:37chinghis khan is born in what is now northeastern mongolia in the year 1162 but he's not known as
32:43chinghis khan then he's known as temujin he's the son of a powerful warlord and according to legend
32:49he's born holding a blood clot which for the mongols was a sure sign of a mighty destiny
32:56the mongols are nomads who are known for living on the steppe they're also these expert horsemen
33:03and these fierce warriors but what they're not is unified temujin is able to build a coalition among
33:13all of these clans people see temujin as someone who can unite these clans under common cause under a
33:21common banner and so temujin starts to earn a brand new name they start calling him jenghis khan
33:29jenghis khan when translated stands for universal ruler the newly declared khan's ambition to build
33:38a mongol empire has him eyeing his neighbor the jinn dynasty in the early 13th century the jinn dynasty
33:47in china controls huge and very wealthy swaths of territory to the south of the great wall jenghis
33:54khan arrives at the dynasty's capital changdu with 150 000 elite mongol warriors every mongol soldier is
34:02given a specific quota of people that they need to kill they enter the city and they massacre
34:11everyone that's inside he leaves behind pyramids of skulls piles of severed ears he is sending a clear
34:19message about what happens to those who resist but there's a method to khan's viciousness he leaves a
34:27few survivors to serve as messengers when chinghis khan and his army show up at a new city their
34:33reputation precedes them people are already terrified and as often as not they surrender without a fight
34:39not everyone gets the message in 1219 the kwarazmian empire neighboring empire murders a caravan full of
34:49mongol merchants and an envoy so this to jenghis khan is seen essentially as a huge insult and khan
35:00doesn't like to be insulted before the battle even begins jenghis khan orders his soldiers to kill
35:07every living thing they encounter women children livestock even cats and dogs
35:16when 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
35:34throat in less than 10 years the kwarazmian empire which has several million people in its population
35:43is effectively wiped off the map but even in death khan remains one of the deadliest tyrants
35:50in history in the winter of 1227 genghis khan falls off a horse and dies khan doesn't want anyone to
35:57know where his burial site is so everyone who's witness to the burial is killed
36:04by the time of his death chinghis khan rules an empire that stretches over more than 5 million square
36:10miles that is one of the largest empires the world has ever seen he's also responsible for the deaths of
36:16more than 40 million people about 10 of the earth's population at the time
36:27a 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
36:42years in 1954 the marcos met each other and it was love at first sight 11 days later they were
36:50married
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 imelda doesn't seem
37:26to care about the murder conviction and neither do most filipinos they elect marcos president in 1965.
37:35when this happens the people of the philippines fall in love with this glamorous couple the two are
37:42really the kennedys of the philippines and while they are wildly popular among the filipino people
37:48there's a real dark side to their rule imelda will become known as the iron butterfly
37:57and 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
38:11the economic decline is causing protest so marcos declares martial law in september of 1972
38:19marcos changes the constitution he enacts unlimited term limits and he arrests anyone who dare oppose
38:26him and shockingly the filipino people support most of his decisions because they believe that martial law
38:32will reduce crime by the end of the year thousands have been arrested with most never seeing a courtroom in
38:40fact many are never seen again martial law goes on for nine years over that period maybe 70 000 of
38:49his
38:49rivals are arrested prisoners in marcos's jails have their arms and legs broken before they're taken
38:55out and buried up to their neck in sugar cane fields where fire ants can crawl all over their face
39:00while the victim is unable to dig themselves out some prisoners have hydrochloric acid poured down their
39:06throats in the end more than 3 000 filipinos are killed with their bodies thrown out into the streets
39:16he 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
39:32imelda 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 imelda is overseeing the building of the manila film center
39:53the project is over budget it's behind schedule so imelda orders the construction team to speed up
39:58and doing that causes a disaster the scaffolding collapses 169 workers die and she appears callous to it
40:10word spreads that people are still buried under the rubble when imelda restarts construction
40:16the 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 happened
40:29and there's no compensation for the workers who were lost in the collapse
40:34in february of 1986 marcos is elected again in a clearly rigged election this time it spurs widespread
40:42revolt 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 imelda's political career is far from over
41:05imelda marcos returns to the philippines she is elected to three terms in the philippine house of
41:13representatives 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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