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Historys Deadliest with Ving Rhames - Season 1 - Episode 04: Tyrants
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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
01:12ask 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
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
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 china's
02:01communist party and from there a revolution is born what results is a bloody civil war that goes on for
02:08decades it pits mao's communist party against chiang kai-shek's nationalist party by 1949 the communist
02:17party ends up winning that war mao is made president of china and his communist party is in power mao
02:25takes
02:26power by brutal force and holds on to it the same way anybody that opposes him he calls a counter
02:33-revolutionary
02:34he orders thousands arrested forces confessions and sets up trials if you're found guilty at these
02:42trials which you will be the two outcomes you're facing are either death by firing squad or being
02:48sent to a labor camp mao conducts public executions in front of large crowds he kills or terrifies into
02:56silence anybody that might oppose him mao's purge lasts three years and kills more than two million
03:04people but it's just the first step in mao's vision for a new china in 1958 mao announces his great
03:12leap
03:13forward his plan is to transform chinese society into a modern state one of the things that mao does is
03:21take over farming he simply believes that if he takes the peasants off of the land and instead turns
03:27it into collectives that these collectives are going to be able to massively increase production for
03:33these collectives to hit their quotas they massively over plant all these crops end up competing for
03:39space for nutrients and so what ends up happening is you have a lot of these crops that end up
03:44failing
03:45the communist leader needs someone or something to blame mao and the government come to the conclusion
03:53that the enemy of this farming initiative is a two ounce bird called a sparrow he claims that the sparrow
04:03is eating so much of china's crops that's why they have smaller yields mao enlists the aid of the entire
04:10chinese population 600 million strong and he lets them know that it is the duty of every chinese
04:17citizen to kill any sparrow they see on site in just a few weeks more than a billion sparrows are
04:25killed
04:25across the country and the government declares it a tremendous success but mao's victory lap is cut short
04:33when a plague descends on chinese farms the sparrow's main food source is insects but because a billion
04:44sparrows have been killed by the chinese population these locusts now have the ability to roam free
04:51the locusts eat the grain in some places production is down 70 percent and what was supposed to be a
04:58way to
04:58feed the people leads to or contributes to the worst famine in modern history this famine which lasts from
05:071959 to 1961 leads to 45 million people dying from starvation that's almost seven percent of the country's
05:17population while his country suffers and starves now lives a life of luxury he travels around between his
05:25million dollar properties he's got beautiful women he lives the life of a rich man who does not
05:31understand that his people are starving mao's brutality allows him to stay in power into the year 1976
05:38when finally he dies at the age of 82. to this day if you go to china you can actually
05:45see his body on
05:46display because when mao died his body was embalmed and placed in a glass coffin for all to see and
05:52all to pay
05:52reverence to him
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 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
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 sickbed a changed man and not for the better he comes out of it cruel and
07:17petty
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 dem
08:02nacho 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 in the
08:30roman republic and he claims that he himself is able to speak with jupiter the highest god of the roman
08:36pantheon
08:38his out of control behavior is matched by his out of control spending he spends 10 million sesterces
08:45which 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
09:05to take an army and i'm going to loot britannia caligula leads a massive army of 200 000 men to
09:12the
09:12shores of the english channel where he simply stops and instead of crossing the channel instead of invading
09:19britannia he has the soldiers gather seashells and then he says that those are the signs of the
09:25victory over the sea since you can't feed an army with seashells the roman senate decides to put an end
09:33to the madness january 24th 41 a.d finally it's too much and his praetorian guard kills him
09:49caligula only rules rome for four years but his reign leaves a lasting mark his brutal purges and his
09:57murders the way that he transforms the gladiatorial games into blood sport he really is one of rome's
10:04most infamous emperors and one of its deadliest saddam hussein's dark story begins long before he
10:17becomes a dictator the man known as the butcher of baghdad has a long and bloody past
10:26it's october 7th 1959 in baghdad and the iraqi leader at the time abdul kareem kasim is driving
10:34in a 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
11:11then by 1979 he's president of iraq now that saddam has power he intends to keep it at any cost
11:20and that
11:20means not trusting anybody six days after saddam hussein takes power he calls an emergency meeting of the
11:28bath party where he arrests 68 of the leading members 22 are executed he has those executions filmed
11:39and the legend is that he will watch them later for his own entertainment three months later he has 14
11:46people arrested on charges of trying to plot against him and he famously hangs them in the streets of
11:52baghdad for the public to see and gives an order that they not be cut down for weeks hussein is
11:58merciless
11:58with all iraqis but he directs his worst at the shia muslims and the kurds in the north on march
12:0516 1988
12:06he sets his sight on a kurdish town called halabja in north iraq he accuses them of being insurgents
12:12but in fact all they are is the wrong ethnicity saddam sends in army attack helicopters and they
12:19actually drop nerve agents and mustard gas chemical weapons on the unsuspecting village beneath them
12:25and this mist descends on a population of some 5 000 people seizing and vomiting and rolling on the
12:33ground this mass population being killed saddam's thirst for death and destruction is matched only by
12:42his appetite for self-indulgence he builds over a hundred palaces across iraq just outside of baghdad
12:49he creates one with 62 bedrooms gold-plated fixtures italian marble but these creature comforts do little to
12:58put the butcher of baghdad at ease and there are a lot of people who want him dead he has
13:05his food
13:06tested for poison he has body doubles all over the place he can't bed down in the same place twice
13:12even though saddam spends decades sowing fear and terror he still wants to be loved he also wants to be
13:21an
13:21artist and a poet and he writes poetry and he writes a romance novel with himself featured on the cover
13:27but saddam's career as an author is cut short when on march 20th 2003 american forces invade iraq on a
13:38hunt for weapons of mass destruction it's no contest the iraqi defenses steamroll but saddam hussein manages
13:44to hide for eight months but not forever december 13th of 2003 saddam hussein is found hiding in a rural
13:55village in a spider hole he spends three years in prison demanding things like raisin bran and fruit
14:04loops and 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
14:44country of
14:45walakia 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
15:12right out of wallachia they'll call it the forest of the impaled and the message it sends is clear
15:20this is what awaits you when you threaten glad dracula also known as glad the impaler
15:28vlad the third is not someone that takes too kindly to the ottoman empire as a child the ottomans take
15:35him
15:35and hold him as a hostage to bring his father to heel supposed to guarantee that they will behave they
15:40murder his father and his brother vlad's loss of his father and brother fuels his revenge vlad has
15:49learned from a very early age how to use cruelty and brutality as effective weapons of war his favorite
15:56form of punishment is 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
16:10horizontally into the victim's body then you raise the stake so that it's vertical and the victim
16:17slowly but surely slides down the pole ideally what you're trying to do is miss the major organs
16:26so 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 are
16:43impaled
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 who impaled and
17:29killed
17:29goes on to inspire the dracula legend we know why blad is called the impaler but why is the first
17:42of russia
17:42called 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 tendency to become a serial killer by the time he's in his early teens ivan has schemed his way
18:40into power and is ready to settle some scores he accuses one of the boyars
18:46of treason has him arrested and his sentence is to be thrown to a pack of starving hunting dogs
18:57and the man is torn to shreds
19:03after removing the boyars as a threat ivan declares himself the first czar of russia on january 16th
19:151547 when ivan is 16 something happens that changes everything he meets anastasia robinoff immediately falls
19:24in love and marries her she makes him feel comforted and so for the next 13 years with anastasia by
19:31his
19:32side his rule over russia is level-headed but then anastasia dies suddenly in 1560 and ivan turns
19:42truly terrible he descends into violent paranoia and creates his own personal army so he puts together
19:52ultimately russia's first secret police they're called the oprychniki this unit contains 6 000 men
19:58and 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 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
21:11ends up dying while he's playing a game of chess he just keels over dies right there on the board
21:20checkmate
21:24ivan the terrible blad the impaler these tyrants live up to their nicknames and so does the one
21:31whose countrymen call him the butcher it's january of 1971 the president of uganda milton nabote
21:44realizes that one of his colonels in the army has been embezzling so he determines that he's going to
21:52arrest him but before he gets a chance to do that he goes off to singapore to a meeting of
21:57the british
21:58commonwealth and that's a mistake this colonel named idi amin gets a sense of what's going down
22:05and he realizes that he must now take offensive action while obote is gone he goes and takes over
22:12the palace and he essentially takes control of the country
22:17idi amin promises the public that he needs just five years to undo all the corruption from the obote
22:24regime he says that after five years he will hold free and fair elections for the ugandan people
22:29it'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
23:02in 1976 it's time for amin to hold the elections he's promised instead he declares himself president for
23:11life 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
23:32rumors grow louder people claim that he practices bizarre blood rituals there are credible reports that
23:39he is eating his enemy's flesh and drinking their blood he says that by doing this it allows him to
23:47control
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
24:20edi 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 and capture the capital
24:38city of kampala uganda amin knows he has no chance to fight back so he escapes by helicopter
24:44officially ending his presidency
24:48the ugandan people celebrate idi amin's departure they tear down his pictures they burn his government
24:54buildings but amin himself is never tried for the murder of half a million ugandan citizens
25:01instead he settles in saudi arabia where he actually dies in exile at the age of 75
25:13history's deadliest tyrants are usually men but there's one english princess who grows up to be a
25:21killer 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 grey to take over the throne edward the sixth is very protestant and the last thing
25:40he wants is for his sister mary the first to take over the throne because she is a devout catholic
25:48once he names lady jane grey as his heir edward the sixth passes away but mary is popular and many
25:56of
25:56the people see her as the legitimate heir to the throne so she is able to raise up an army
26:01march into
26:02london to popular acclaim and become crowned the queen of england now mary has some scores to settle
26:11the first thing she does is she places lady jane grey in the tower of london
26:17following that she arrests the duke of northumberland and 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 to
26:38marry 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
26:50to turn england catholic again and that england will be under the thumb of spain and that leads to a
26:57rebellion
27:00mary 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 or three
27:41you 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
27:58it takes time there's one infamous incident that turns public support for bloody mary to ash three
28:11women are being burned at the stake and one of them is pregnant the trauma of being burned at the
28:16stake
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
28:28seen as a religious crusader she's seen as a monster the executions finally come to an end in 1558 and
28:37it's not because bloody mary has a change of heart it's because she dies on the throne at age 42.
28:45mary's half-sister 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
29:00religion has been a source of conflict throughout history but if you think things get bloody between
29:07the catholics 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
29:21is a mild-mannered doctor named francois duvalier he's viewed with great affection and they call him
29:29papa doc on september 22nd 1957 duvalier wins the election in a landslide but when the good doctor
29:40becomes president things change within weeks of taking office he changes the constitution i have
29:47been elected for president for life he starts to jail and kill his rivals and before the end of his
29:54first
29:55year in office he's had more than 300 people murdered like other tyrants duvalier soon recognizes
30:03he needs henchmen in 1959 he creates his own secret police force called the tauntaun macut his enforcers they
30:14roam the streets of port-au-prince of the capital and everybody is terrified of them they are judge jury
30:22and
30:22executioner if you're even suspected of being a threat to duvalier you're either hacked to death or burned
30:29alive sometimes the bodies are dumped into crocodile infested waters to get rid of them but other times
30:37they're just left in the streets to send a message
30:43in 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
31:26priest 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 duvalier
31:59actually buys into his own hype at this point telling the people around him that he is immortal and
32:06invincible but no matter what he believes he is human and on april 21st 1971 after years of ill health
32:15he 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 chinghiz khan is born in what is now northeastern mongolia in the year
32:411162 but he's not known as chinghiz khan then he's known as temujin he's the son of a powerful warlord
32:48and
32:48according to legend he's born holding a blood clot which for the mongols was a sure sign of a mighty
32:55destiny
32:55the mongols are nomads who are known for living on the steppe they're also these expert horsemen and
33:04these fierce warriors but what they're not is unified temujin is able to build a coalition among all of
33:13these clans people see temujin as someone who can unite these clans under common cause under a common
33:21banner and so temujin starts to earn a brand new name they start calling him jenghis khan and jenghis
33:30khan when translated stands for universal ruler the newly declared khan's ambition to build a mongol
33:39empire has him eyeing his neighbor the jinn dynasty in the early 13th century the jinn dynasty in china
33:48controls huge and very wealthy swathes of territory to the south of the great wall jenghis khan arrives
33:54at the dynasty's capital changdu with 150 000 elite mongol warriors every mongol soldier is given a
34:03specific quota of people that they need to kill they enter the city and they massacre
34:10everyone that's inside he leaves behind pyramids of skulls piles of severed ears he is sending a
34:18clear message about what happens to those who resist but there's a method to khan's viciousness
34:25he leaves a few survivors to serve as messengers when chinghis khan and his army show up at a new
34:32city their reputation precedes them people are already terrified and as often as not they surrender without a
34:38fight not everyone gets the message in 1219 the kurashmian empire neighboring empire murders a caravan full
34:49of mongol 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 chinghis khan orders his soldiers to kill
35:07every living thing they encounter women 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
35:34throat in less than 10 years the kurashmian 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 in history in
35:51the winter of 1227 genghis khan falls off a horse and dies khan doesn't want anyone to know where his
35:57burial
35:57site is so everyone who's witness to the burial is killed by the time of his death chinghis khan
36:06rules an empire that stretches over more than five million square miles that is one of the largest
36:11empires the world has ever seen he's also responsible for the deaths of more than 40 million people about
36:1710 percent of the earth's population 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 amel de 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. imelda doesn't
37:25seem to 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 and ferdinand
37:58is about to undergo his own transformation in 1969 ferdinand is elected to a second term in a landslide
38:07but shortly after an economic crisis takes over the country the economic decline is causing protest
38:13so 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 him
38:26and 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
38:39in fact many are never seen again martial law goes on for nine years over that period maybe 70
38:47000 of his rivals are arrested prisoners in marcos's jails have their arms and legs broken before
38:54they're taken out and buried up to their neck in sugarcane fields where fire ants can crawl all over
38:59their face while the victim is unable to dig themselves out some prisoners have hydrochloric acid poured down
39:05their throats in the end more than 3 000 filipinos are killed with their bodies thrown out into the streets
39:15he dumps their mutilated corpses for everybody to see while they're busy crushing the philippines
39:25under 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 the construction team to speed up
39:58and doing that causes a disaster the scaffolding collapses 169 workers die and she appears callous to
40:09it word spreads 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 happened
40:29and there's no compensation for the workers who were lost in the collapse in february of 1986 marcos is
40:37elected again in a clearly rigged election this time it spurs widespread revolt and under pressure
40:44he 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
41:05emelda 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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