With several surplus leaders who seem likely to lose power soon, it seems a good time to decide what to do with them.
Recent practice has been inconsistent. Some are put on trial, others allowed into government, like the former IRA leaders (they aren't former rulers but had sufficient power to merit similar treatment). In Chile Pinochet was persuaded to relinquish power in exchange for an amnesty, but then various people tried to put him on trial.
A good general rule would be that those who step down voluntarily should be allowed a fairly comfortable house arrest in a stately home in some country willing to keep an eye on them, but those who fight for power to the bitter end should perish in that end.
Above all we need consistency, though the many borderline cases make that hard to achieve.
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