Additions and updates

Short biography and background note on Jorge Rafael Videla and the Argentine junta. Updated 19 May 2013 to note Videla's death on 17 May. Videla dies in his prison cell. It is reported that he dies quietly in his sleep.

Background notes on United States presidents and their advisers. Updated 15 May 2013 to note the Reagan administration's effort to prevent Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from sabotaging a vote that led to his removal from power.

A short biography and background note on Augusto Pinochet. Updated 15 May 2013 to include information about Pinochet's unsuccessful attempt to sabotage the 1988 plebiscite that led to his removal from power.

A short biography and background note on Pol Pot. Updated 12 May 2013 to report the death of Ieng Sary on 14 March 2013 and to note that the secret bombing raids on Vietnamese communist sanctuaries and supply routes inside Cambodia that began in March 1969 were launched without the knowledge of the US Congress.

Short biographies and background notes on François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Updated 30 April 2013 to note Jean-Claude Duvalier's appearance at a pre-trial hearing in a Haitian appeals court on 28 February 2013.

A short biography and background note on Slobodan Milosevic. Updated 27 April 2013 to add image of Milosevic sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Short biography and background note on Ne Win. Includes information on Than Shwe. Updated 20 April 2013 to replace image of Ne Win with file sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Short biographies and background note on The Three Pashas. Updated 20 April 2013 to replace images of the pashas with files sourced from Wikimedia Commons, and to make various minor text edits.

A short biography and background note on Efraín Ríos Montt. Updated 4 April 2013 to include information about the start of Ríos Montt's trial on charges of genocide and war crimes.

A short biography and background note on Kim Il Sung. Includes information on Kim Jong Il. Updated 30 March 2013 to correct a typographical error.

A short biography and background note on Joseph Stalin. Updated 14 March 2013 to remove unsupported claim that Stalin had Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov assassinated in December 1934.

Short biography and background note on Radovan Karadzic. Updated 5 March 2013 to add regional tag to profile data.

A short biography and background note on the Assads. Includes information on Hafez al-Assad, Rifaat al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad. Updated 6 February 2013 to include United Nations estimates of the number of people killed in Syria since the uprising in March 2011 and subsequent civil war. Update also includes information about reports of massacres at Haswiyeh and Aleppo.