8. CAR – Jean-Bedel Bokassa
From 1966 to 1976, he served as president, and from 1976 to 1979, he assumed the role of emperor of the Central African Empire, thus acting as a dictator. France was compelled to depose the monarch from power because of a series of severe tortures, arrests, the shooting of school students who were protesting against the uniform, and ultimately, acts of cannibalism. He fled to France and was subsequently repatriated, only to be condemned upon his return.