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... were committed during the final months of the war against Tamil Tiger rebels. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has rejected calls for an international probe into possible war crimes, calling it ...
... Popovic insisted that he sought only to educate rebels, not lead them. "You cannot take the revolution in a suitcase and take it to one place," Popovic told me when I caught up with him again in a restaurant ...
... of a peace agreement signed by Gbagbo's government and the New Forces rebels in 2007, after a civil war that had split the country into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south. The unity government ...
... extravaganzas and much more. Now middle aged, some of the musicians who played in ostracism during those last gray years of Communist rule gathered in New York over the weekend for the festival Rebel ...
... targets of both right-wing paramilitary forces and leftist rebel armies in Colombia, with more than 60 murdered between 2002 and 2008. Violence has abated greatly with the demobilization of more than 30,000 ...
... the study said. Venezuela's chief prosecutor, Luisa Ortega, warned at the end of August that such demonstrations were "in effect, criminal civil rebellion." She said protesters could be charged with crimes ...
Honduras's interim leaders suspended key civil liberties last night in response to "calls for insurrection" by ousted president Manuel Zelaya, empowering police and soldiers to break up "unauthorised" ...
... its broadcast license. Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation earlier this month to determine whether Globovision was trying to incite rebellion by airing a viewer's text message that allegedly called ...
... the military's top officials were prosecuted in the early 1980s, but the military forced the passage of an amnesty law and several presidential pardons after a series of rebellions in the late 1980s and ...
10. Kurt Schock
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... on Contentious Politics: Seeking Causes, 2000. Research Fellowship ($39,000). Awarded by the Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998 -1999. Project title: Nonviolent Rebellion in the ...
... on going ceasefire and peace talks between the Tamil tiger rebels and Sri Lankan government, CHRD is now actively involved in campaigning for the repeal of Prevention of Terrorism Act and the release of ...
CARACAS — Venezuela's top prosecutor said Saturday that recent street protests were legally tantamount to "rebellion" against President Hugo Chavez's government and that demonstrators will now be charged. ...
Yemen accused Iranian media on Monday of bias toward Shi'ite rebels fighting government troops in northern Yemen, warning it could take unspecified steps in response. Yemen's Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi ...
14. Chinese Protest over Tibet
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... national regional autonomy under the unified leadership of the Central People’s Government. The Dalai Lama was allowed his place in the leadership of Tibet, until a rebellion in 1959. Simple campaigns ...
15. Show trials and apologetics
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... 1990s, during Khatami’s own presidency, they did not exactly rebel against the show trials of the intelligence agents who ‘confessed’ to having acted alone in murdering opponents of the regime. Some of ...
... the 2004 rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A U.N. peacekeeping spokeswoman said demonstrators fired weapons and threw rocks at Nepalese peacekeepers as the troops removed barricades ...
17. Tamil protest ends after 73 days
(Articles/General)
... almost the entire senior Tamil Tiger leadership, ending the 26-year war between the army and the rebels. The UN believes that nearly 7,000 civilians may have been killed and another 13,000 injured in the ...
18. Non-violent protest in Kashmir
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... by protesters, despite a new upsurge of anger among young Kashmiris at their harsh treatment by Indian security forces. Delapidated capital The latest rebellion in the Kashmir Valley, which was incorporated ...
... and now Tookie Williams for their seasoned non-violent teachings. No one is prepared to point to Castro, Mao or Chavez as examples of rebels who resorted to violence and who brought their people to greater ...
... of northern India and even briefly took control of the Chinese capital Chang'an in 763 during the chaos of the An Shi Rebellion.[17] There was a stone pillar, the Lhasa Shöl rdo-rings, in the ancient village ...
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Egypt's Brotherhood is knocking » Reporting from Cairo - He doesn't seem a radical or a troublemaker, but to the Egyptian government, Abdel Fattah Rizk, a surgeon with a graying mustache and hands pink from scrubbing, is a man to be watched.He belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, the most potent opposition group in the country. Hundreds of its members are in prison and many more are lying low. But even as security forces scour the nation for dissent, the Brotherhood is everywhere, from the shacks of handymen to the estates of mill...
More Than 20 Killed in Madagascar Protest » Security forces in Madagascar fired on a crowd of protesters outside one of the country’s presidential palaces in the capital city on Saturday, with several reports saying that more than 20 people were killed.The violence was yet another deadly episode in a struggle for power between President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the elected mayor of Antananarivo, the capital. A week ago, Mr. Rajoelina declared that he was taking over the government of Madagascar, an island nation of 20 millio...
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