Many dictators have been and are still roaming around all over the world, even til today. Those of you who are more into politics might have an idea of who they are, but for those you who don't, here are a few examples:
Adolf Hitler: Dictator of Germany during the Third Reich. His ultimate hatred for the Jews fueled him to set up concentration camps and death camps where about 2,700,000 Jews were rounded in and treated beyond slaves, tortured, and murdered either by shooting, asphyxiation, or gas poisoning in gas chambers.
Vladimir Putin: Dictator of Russia today. He rose to power in 1999 as the country's President, then Prime Minister, then back to President again now. Putin has gained control over the authorities in the country, intentionally putting his allies in power. He has made up laws that do not allow citizens to protest or be part of a demonstration, or else they pay for it - grievously.
Kim Jong Un: Present dictator of the secretive North Korea. He only came into power about a year ago, after his father's death. Disabled people are kicked out of the city, news and messages that go in and out are censored and propaganda. Kim Jong Un also focuses on the military of his country; lately, he's been building nuclear weapons and testing them.
These are three examples, but there are many more. As you can see, these people are very dangerous, cruel, and power-hungry. You shouldn't leave a dictator as he is, because he's likely going to cause more damage to the country and maybe even some other countries. But how do we deal with a dictator? Confronting wouldn't be really smart, because you'd probably be dead in a few seconds following your first word, unless you really feel confident and brave enough to be successful, in which case I wouldn't really consider the leader as a dictator, or it's just the confronter is not very smart(probably the latter). During the past month or so, we've been studying about one Shakespeare's great works: the play of Julius Caesar. So we could do what the conspirators did - assassinate the dictator. But of course in the play it didn't end up so well; the country dissolved into civil war and complete chaos. And it's pretty likely that something like that could happen now, if we did deal with a dictator that way. For example, the dictator's allies (people in power) or just simply people who actually loved the dictator would probably seek revenge. When two groups of a country are raging with fire and have completely different opinions on something, civil war is what is a lot of the time destined to be in that country. So, we might have to come up with a more efficient way of taking care of someone who's gone a bit over the line. Well, the people from inside the country could decide to take matters into their own hands and figure out something, like gathering a group of people large enough to stand a chance of succeeding. That could be a first step. They could have protests/demonstrations and riots, in an attempt to present their statement to the public, if not to actually take down the dictator, which is probably impossible to do with just a few protests and demonstrations. Or they could try to get someone in power or authority to be on their side, so physically they have an advantage. The person could be someone who can get close to the dictator often without being suspected, or it could be someone from the army, which would result in a military coup. If, by any chance, they get the entire population of the country on their side, then there's not much work to do, because the dictator, no matter how powerful and mighty he is, can't afford to kill the whole country because well then, who's left there to bow down to him?
On the other hand, there's a second group of people who could help out the poor country - other countries! Okay, they could be impatient and march an army into the country and start war, but this time it's going to be worse than civil war, so no, it's not a good idea. Here's one that might work. By boycotting the country, they could force the dictator to step down, at least a little bit. Some ways of boycotting would be to limit the country's resources by refusing to trade certain goods with them, especially the ones that allow them to build and make dangerous items, like weaponry. The shortage of resources that cannot be found in the country and needs to be imported from abroad can really suffer the country and make the dictator step down by default.
In conclusion, whichever the way chosen, a plan has to be well laid out, another reason why having a person who has physical power or who can get close to the dictator is so important, because then they know what might work and what would not. That way certain strategies could be eliminated. Besides that, there has to expert communication in the group, or else the plan's likely to fail. None of the ways are easy, but this was an issue that has been in the world as long as history dates back, and sadly, it's still an issue the world faces even today.
