A death that makes me happy

Today it was announced that Türkmenba?y, Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, the dictator of Turkmenistan, had died. Although I don’t normally rejoice in the death of other people, I sincerely think this is a man that Turkmenistan and the world will do better without. Some of his more unusual actions according to Wikipedia included:

• ordering that physicians swear an oath to him instead of the Hippocratic Oath
• decreeing that teachers who wished to avoid being put on the lowest grade of pay or even sacked, would have to write a newspaper article praising Türkmenba?y and have it published in one of the two newspapers of the country
• changing the Turkmen word for bread to that of his late mother
• ordering the closure of all hospitals outside A?gabat, saying that if people were ill, they could come to the capital