On Countries with Dictators & Terrorist Rebels

Reading the news while in Canada on Syria and other Middle Eastern and Eastern countries experiencing civil wars and terrorism, and chatting with an online correspondent friend who escaped from Syria into the UAE, I realized how deep and complex terrorism is globally.  The epiphany of seeing its meaning in dictatorship led countries, where the political leader remains in power using military force even civil war or martial law on their own civilian people and eliminate elections which empower civilians to choose their own leader, it is an important link that keeps them in their positions, but which causes some civilians to become terrorists and rebels against their own government!  Dictators were one of the causes of creating terrorists!  Terrorists are anti-government which are often led by dictators using military force to kill civilians and the opposition parties who then become terrorists and rebels, and are sometimes even funded by foreign governments assisting them in the push from power.  Sometimes nationalism and internationalism interact within and without these countries and civilians escape the threat to their lives and become refugees in another country.  Other foreign governments and civilians assist inside and outside to help civilians escape temporarily.  After realizing all this, whenever I see the word 'terrorist' or 'rebel' or 'anti-government', I understood the root cause from the 'dictator' who triggered this effect.  Coming from the Philippines where it took a 'people power revolution' to oust a President dictator, the necessity of having regular democratic elections was clear even while watching the news in Canada where we had already immigrated into because of martial law.  People choose their President and should not be forced into it!  Recent examples of this cause and effect  in Syria, Libya, and Iraq made me glad that Canada and USA have regular political elections, which keep these countries stable and their civilians empowered by choice of vote for a leader. 

Refer to Wikipedia Modern Dictators