Efrain Rios Montt was born on 16 June 1926. He began his military career in 1946 as a cadet and was made general in 1972. Between 1970 and 1974 he was chief of the Guatemalan army. In 1974 he was elected president as a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, but the candidate of the armed...

Jorge Rafael Videla was born in Mercedes, Argentina on 2 August 1925. He is the son of an army Coronel. He graduated from the National Military College in 1994 and began what would become a long military career. He worked for the Ministry of Defence from 1950 to 1962 when he became...

Solomon Maldonado Rios, a Guatemalan national, was a military commissioner in El Jute, Guatemala.

On 19 October 1981, Jacobo Crisóstomo Chegüen, Miguel Ángel Chegüen Crisóstomo, Raúl Chegüen, Inocente Gallardo, Antolín Gallardo Rivera, Valentín Gallardo Rivera, Santiago Gallardo Rivera...

Antanas Gecevicius was born in Lithuania in 1961, he completed Military Academy in 1937 and then joined the Lithuanian Air Force. In 1941 Germany annexed Lithuania and Gecevicius joined the 12th Auxiliary Lithuanian Police Battalion.

Between 1941 and 1944 , the Battalion was used by the...

Jiang Zemin was born on 17 August 1926. He was central to the third generation of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiang Zemin grew up during the Japanese occupation. His uncle died during the war against Japan, so he was given by his father to his uncle’s family as his male successor. This...