Among several controversial points, the junta wants to fill the Senate with people selected by a junta-appointed committee.
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ANTI-JUNTA PROTESTS In Bangkok, young, middle-class Thais, have led a series of anti-junta protests, including one on Feb.
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While the junta is not popular — recent polling shows that the main pro-junta party is likely to get only a tiny fraction of the vote — the army will likely take tough actions if the anti-junta parties win.
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Since then, the junta has detained hundreds of politicians, activists, journalists and others accused of being involved in anti-junta protests and activities.
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The portrait was drawn by a junta critic known as Kai Maew, whose Facebook page, which featured anti-junta comic strips, was taken down last month.
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Park seized power by leading a military junta that purged the government of opposition and then declared that junta members wouldn't run for president, but ran anyway.
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The word "junta" means "board" in Spanish, without dictatorial connotations, but with federal oversight now on the horizon, it has been appearing on anti-junta banners and graffiti.
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Piyaphong Klinphan, a junta spokesman, said registration was a matter for the election commission, but the junta would make sure nobody could disturb security or break the law.
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Under the new junta-written constitution, the House of Representatives will vote along with the junta-appointed Senate to choose the prime minister, which is expected later this month.
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Former junta leader Prayuth this year took office as a civilian prime minister, after his pro-army party was declared winner in an election held under junta-written regulations.
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Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in the streets of San Juan this week to chants of "Ricky renuncia y llévate a la junta": Ricky, resign and take the "junta" with you.
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When Mr. Thaksin was ousted in the 2006 coup, his supporters accused Mr. Prem of being the mastermind and controlling the military-backed junta that took office, a charge the junta denied.
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He also faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes for a speech he posted criticizing the junta in 2018, and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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Puea Thai, a populist anti-junta party, appears to have won the most constituency seats in the lower house, and the anti-junta parties collectively won the largest share of the popular vote.
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Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmar's military junta.
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The junta has appeared increasingly jittery ahead of the Aug.
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The junta running the country has repeatedly delayed new elections.
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Thai junta jokes Yingluck stalked by army because she's pretty.
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The junta has tentatively set a general election for 2018.
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The most senior cabinet members all served in the junta.
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Junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree said Jatupat should seek bail.
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Both men were stridently against the junta and the monarchy.
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Bio, a former junta leader, was about 15,000 votes ahead.
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But the country's military junta ignored the electoral results nationwide.
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Signs of growing impatience with the junta has been manifest in a steady stream of protests calling for a quick return to democracy and in defiance of a junta crackdown on freedom of assembly.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The leader of Thailand's junta on Thursday accused fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of being behind a series of small anti-junta protests that have flared in the capital this week.
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Thanathorn also faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes for a speech he posted on Facebook criticising the junta last year, and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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Although Yingluck had already been banned from politics by the junta in 2015, she could have been a party figurehead for elections that junta leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has promised for next year.
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This turn of events has surprised everyone, apparently including the junta.
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The army duly deposed her, too, ushering in the current junta.
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The ruling junta would have fewer obstacles to maintaining its grip.
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The junta will appoint all 250 members of the upper house.
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We're told that Manafort will also be part of the junta.
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JUNTA CRITICS Some who remain in Laos say they are fearful.
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So the junta has designed an electoral system to thwart him.
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Whether the junta will actually relinquish power remains to be seen.
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Authorities have also increasingly cracked down on criticism of the junta.
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The military junta now in power is furiously hostile to Turkey.
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But the brawl is dangerous for the junta, whatever the truth.
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"fascist junta" determined to persecute Russian-speakers in Ukraine and stamp
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Critics refer to that founding group as the La Jolla Junta.
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While she was there, student protests against the junta flared up.
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" He added: "The junta is using my mother as a hostage.
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The junta also wants to move beyond this kind of handout.
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Businesses complained of delays in government spending even under the junta.
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The junta that illegally usurped power protected the killers. Maj. Gen.
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The junta started nationalizing businesses, effectively pushing out about 300,000 citizens.
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The junta, led by Mr. Prayuth, has promised elections next year.
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Junta is a former head of APAC sales at Goldman Sachs.
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On leaving Managua, Mr. Pezzullo drew praise from the revolutionary junta.
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The junta has banned political gatherings of more than five people.
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Tillerson met Thailand's foreign minister, Don Pramudwinai, before junta chief Prayuth.
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It was then a military-backed government, not a military junta.
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Instead, editorials demanded answers from the junta about the unhealthy air.
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Regardless, support for the junta was stacked even before voting began.
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In 1989 the then-ruling military junta changed the name, one year after it brutally suppressed an uprising, and one year before Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide electoral victory that the junta simply ignored.
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It was released in several European countries in 1969 — the year it was nominated — but was banned under the ruling military junta in Greece and would not screen there until after the junta fell in 1974.
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First, it must avoid the temptation to legitimize the junta or individuals within it who aspire to replace Bashir and instead use its leverage to mitigate the asymmetry of power between the junta and the civilian reformers.
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But the ruling junta has yet to set a date for elections.
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That has certainly appeared to be the opinion of the ruling junta.
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Thaksin's decision to speak to media this week has riled the junta.
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Thailand's junta, it seems, cannot organise a rigged election in a dictatorship.
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The junta still seems a long way from handing power to civilians.
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The military junta has yet to finish building a new parliament house.
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The junta has warned Yingluck supporters not to gather at the court.
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Colonel Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for the junta, denied authorities mistreated Sirawith.
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The junta will appoint the 250-member Senate, or the upper house.
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He is related through marriage to Than Shwe, a former junta leader.
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Now, several youth activists have taken to calling the junta a "dictatorship".
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In 1992, a popular uprising ousted yet another monarchy-backed military junta.
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"Between La Junta and Trinidad, you might see 60 tarantulas," he said.
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Americo-Liberian elite, and announcing on national radio that a military junta,
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The junta ensured its victory by preventing opponents from campaigning against it.
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In comments after the vote, the junta chief and prime minister, Gen.
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"The helicopter is still missing," junta spokesman Winthai Suvaree said on Sunday.
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Bashir seized power in 22003 as the head of an Islamist junta.
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There are many similarly painful stories from the time of the junta.
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The junta has broadcast songs and television programs to drum up enthusiasm.
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But that's not demonstrators' only demand: They want "la junta" gone too.
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"Power has been centralized to the hands of the junta," Thanathorn said.
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The military junta jailed Ashin Wirathu for eight years for inciting hatred.
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Other countries, too, are beginning to apply pressure to the military junta.
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Just days after the 2014 coup, I was summoned by the junta.
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The junta that had ruled the country for decades kept citizens isolated.
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By the 1980s, the military junta had stripped most Rohingya of citizenship.
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If anti-junta forces coalesce again, no one is discounting another putsch.
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The junta has resorted to providing loans to jasmine rice farmers. 10.
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Despite the ban, around 300 students and people critical of the junta marched from Thammasat University to the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on Sunday to mark the coup anniversary, asking the junta to return democracy to the people.
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Rights groups say there have been seven violent attacks on activists since a March 24 election that resulted in former junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha staying on as a civilian prime minister under election rules written by the junta.
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The pro-army Palang Pracharat party that wants to keep junta leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha as prime minister also would need coalition partners, but it would have a better chance due to junta-written electoral rules that favour it.
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Thailand's vote comes after nearly five years of direct military rule and is viewed as a contest between junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha - who wants to stay on as elected leader - and a "democratic front" of anti-junta parties.
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Thanathorn, a charismatic billionaire who founded the party, already faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes over a speech he posted on Facebook criticizing the junta and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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The junta accuses him of running a radio channel critical of the monarchy.
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The military junta had begun liberalising the economy before it handed over power.
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The government overthrown by the junta in 2014 was led by his sister.
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The 242-seat upper house Senate is entirely appointed by the ruling junta.
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The junta cracked down, reportedly killing at least 31 people and arresting thousands.
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The Election Commission and the junta deny any bias in the electoral law.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand's junta leader, has asked his cabinet to study it.
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They are not the only opponents of the junta to face legal troubles.
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S. junta that ruled until it was ousted by the genocidal Khmer Rouge.
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The ruling-junta will appoint the 250-member Senate, or the upper house.
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The junta is detaining anyone who asks questions about it, according to Marshall.
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The spat is uncomfortable for the junta, but perhaps it can be managed.
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To this day, many Argentinians firmly believe the U.S. government supported the junta.
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Rights groups say the junta has launched a fresh crackdown in recent weeks.
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The video oozes junta chic mingled with mood-tones from Tom of Finland.
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Protesters who want "la junta" out also have allies in the 2020 field.
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The military junta in Myanmar changed the country's name from Burma in 1989.
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"The Thai junta has shown so little response to international pressure," she said.
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La junta dijo que los sitios de votación solo usarían boletas de papel.
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National elections are scheduled for March 24, after repeated delays by Thailand's junta.
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Tun Kyi, a onetime junta member, hosted a party in the Secretariat's courtyard.
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Though many suffered under the military junta, ethnic minorities were hit the hardest.
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Under junta rule, dissidents have been sent to detention camps for attitude adjustment.
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For that vote, the junta blocked opponents from campaigning and barred election monitors.
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"SAVE THE COUNTRY, SAVE THE MONARCHY" Junta leader Prayuth appeared for the first time at an official campaign event, waving as a massive television screen showed a video of his years as the junta leader, harvesting rice and hugging children.
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But that may not matter, because the new constitution written by the junta allows parliament's upper house, the 250-seat Senate, to vote with the lower house to choose the prime minister - and the Senate is entirely appointed by the junta.
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One of the more popular chants among protesters prior to Rosselló's resignation was "Ricky renuncia y llévate a la Junta" (Ricky resign and take the Junta with you.) He took a leave of absence effective Tuesday, according to the firm's website.
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The junta collapsed in 1974 after Turkey invaded Cyprus, and democracy was eventually restored.
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Prayuth said that the junta and the cabinet agreed to make the requested amendments.
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The junta is also tidying up loose ends, and putting opponents in their place.
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The junta has passed an inheritance tax; one on land and property will follow.
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A weakened junta subsequently ceded much of its power to a democratically elected government.
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Today, money and diplomatic support from anti-democratic Arab regimes have emboldened the junta.
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THE MILITARY junta that runs Thailand almost managed to sew up a momentous election.
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Demonstrations have since become a rarity, partly because of junta orders banning public assembly.
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The junta will soon present a list of senators to the king for approval.
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He was head of the feared military intelligence under former junta leader Than Shwe.
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The outgoing semi-civilian government that replaced the junta ushered in numerous economic reforms.
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She organized international opposition to the military junta from her adopted home in Mexico.
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Thai voters overwhelmingly approved a constitution backed by the ruling junta in an Aug.
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The junta last week urged citizens to report cases of lese majeste to authorities.
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Than Shwe, who for nearly two decades led the military junta that ruled Myanmar.
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Matos was previously the Executive Director of JUNTA, New Haven's oldest Latino advocacy organization.
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Thailand's divisive politics have gone underground due to a junta ban on political activity.
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The junta has promised a general election in 2017 if the constitution is approved.
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The junta has vowed to restore democracy but has also repeatedly postponed scheduling elections.
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"It's clear that we confront the rule of the junta very directly," Thanathorn said.
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The junta is ready to destroy an entire system just to stay in power.
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It was the country's first ballot since the junta staged a coup in 2014.
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In 1982, Myanmar's military junta revoked the citizenship of most Rohingya, rendering them stateless.
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The United States maintained sanctions against the military junta that ruled Myanmar for decades.
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The junta promptly announced that the king's request would affect only a few provisions.
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The junta has said the constitution is aimed at ending a cycle of coups.
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The junta has also ramped up infrastructure projects in its efforts to lift growth.
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Asia World is subject to American sanctions because of its ties to the junta.
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"In France, there was no junta stopping Macron forming a party," he told Reuters.
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In 1964, a military coup brought a right-wing junta to power in Brazil.
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But the rule of Thailand's military junta had stretched past the four-year mark.
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The new American envoy to Sudan, Donald Booth, met the junta leader, Lt. Gen.
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At Colorado Bank and Trust in La Junta, fees grew elevenfold to $22010 million.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - An alliance of Thai anti-junta parties is not giving up on forming the country's next government and blocking the ruling junta from retaining power following a disputed March election, a leader of a key member party said on Wednesday.
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China was the first major power to acknowledge Thailand's ruling junta following the 2014 coup.
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Canceling the match was too risky for the junta; doing so might incite a protest.
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In junta-era Argentina, supporting (or not supporting) liberation theology was a very political act.
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The junta has focused on driving investment projects in a bid to lift domestic activity.
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The junta has previously accused dissidents there of making death threats and insulting the monarchy.
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Violence broke out Monday, shortly after a partial agreement between the junta and protest leaders.
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The junta has said the constitution will pave way for an election in late 2017.
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Protesters and the junta were tussling over who would control the country's transition to democracy.
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The junta that seized power in Thailand three years ago promises an election next year.
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Without Ms Yingluck, the ruling junta may find it easier to maintain a tight grip.
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The Kingdom is currently ruled by the military junta, which has held power since 2014.
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The military junta installed a quasi-civilian regime led by ex-generals the next year.
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Scheming by the ruling military junta to sway the contest in its favour appeared thwarted.
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The junta has banned criticism of the charter in the run-up to the vote.
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It will carry the flag for the junta in a national election on March 22.4th.
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The military government has banned protests and stifled criticism and anti-junta activity is rare.
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Thailand, ruled by a junta, is set to hold a general election on March 24.
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The junta has promised a general election in November 2018 to return Thailand to democracy.
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The junta has promised a general election in late 2017 to return Thailand to democracy.
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The junta has ramped up spending and investment in a bid to lift domestic activity.
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A military junta took control of the government following months of street protests in 2014.
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The ruling junta repeatedly postponed general elections after it overthrew an elected government in 2014.
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"The real danger is from the new king, much more than the junta," said Marshall.
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If the constitution is approved, the military junta can claim legitimacy and plan the election.
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China was the first major power to acknowledge Thailand's ruling junta following a 2014 coup.
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But relations between the junta and the United States have improved under President Donald Trump.
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For one thing, the ruling junta has kept many of the Shinawatras' most popular policies.
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Anti-junta parties, however, argue there is no neutrality or third way in the election.
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Real power is held by the military junta that overthrew an elected government in 2014.
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"Their alleged 'crime' is providing loud speakers for anti-junta rally," Sunai wrote on Twitter.
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By 1989, the military junta of Manuel Noreiga had effectively nationalized the money-laundering industry.
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While the Mugabes and the junta negotiated, the public had a chance to say goodbye.
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He had promised during the campaign that the party would not support the junta leader.
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What the junta can't do through technology, it's attempting to do through incentives and intimidation.
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The junta has appeared particularly sensitive to criticism in the lead-up to the vote.
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The junta is already facing growing disillusion over shrinking incomes, particularly in the rural areas.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Polls opened on Sunday for Thailand's first election since a 2014 military coup, a vote that is being seen as a contest between the country's junta leader who wants to stay on as elected leader and a "democratic front" of anti-junta parties.
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The anti-junta opposition has laid low since Prayuth toppled Yingluck's government in a 2014 coup, confident in its ability to win back power at the ballot box and keen to avoid a confrontation with a junta that has quashed any sign of dissent.
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One of the more popular chants among protesters prior to Rosselló's resignation was "Ricky renuncia y llévate a la Junta" (Ricky resign and take the Junta with you.) Pierluisi is also Puerto Rico's former resident commissioner, the island's sole representative in Congress, from 2009-2017.
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Oliveira said Marvila library's gaming programs remind him of Junta de Freguesia de São João de Brito (now Junta de Freguesia de Alvalade), a parish council building and community center where local kids could once study, learn instruments, build toy models, and play computer games.
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After a military junta took power in 1988, relations graduated to the level of strategic partnership.
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Supporters of the red shirt movement say the junta has especially targeted pro-Shinawatra red shirts.
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In the meantime, the absurdly strict rules the junta introduced after seizing power remain in force.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha, the junta leader, says he will probably not be the new prime minister.
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Police said the eight had been charged over comments critical of the junta and the constitution.
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Many in the junta fear a new order, especially if it establishes the rule of law.
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"We expect the junta government to announce further fiscal stimulus measures to support consumption," Moody's added.
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Prayuth, head of the ruling junta, said the exact date would be announced in June 2018.
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The junta has accused opponents of plotting to disrupt the funeral, but has provided no evidence.
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Nonetheless, the head of Thailand's military junta claimed last month that "major headway" had been made.
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The ruling junta has said the referendum will pave the way for an election next year.
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Archbishop Romero said he had to defend the church, and that meant criticising the ruling junta.
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Since the vote on March 24th, however, things have not been going smoothly for the junta.
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The constitution gives the junta the power to appoint all 250 members of the upper house.
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He accused Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of continuing to act like a military junta leader.
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The junta has threatened to jail anyone who violates that rule for up to 10 years.
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Last year a junta-appointed assembly impeached Yingluck and banned her from politics for five years.
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A "no" vote could delay a return to democracy as the junta produces a new draft.
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Yet for years China played both sides, signing deals with the junta while funding rebel groups.
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The Thai military junta often invokes executive power, known as Article 44, to clear bureaucratic hurdles.
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The junta has said it was unlikely the two suspects were tortured while in military custody.
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The Thai junta held a referendum last year on a constitution to allow a general election.
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An "interim" constitution grants the prime minister and junta leader, Prayuth Chan-ocha, almost unlimited power.
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The junta has denied targeting Thaksin and his allies, saying government agencies have been proceeding legally.
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Clinton led efforts to renew diplomatic relations with Myanmar, persuading its junta to adopt political reforms.
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He's praised Brazil's brutal former dictatorship, and advocated for a return to the military junta era.
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The junta has vowed to use harsh measures against perceived critics of the country's royal family.
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The junta blamed Uighur extremists angry over the return of more than 100 Uighurs to China.
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Prayuth has ruled largely unchallenged but anti-junta activists have recently staged small but frequent protests.
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She chooses not to leave Myanmar to see him in case the junta blocks her return.
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In 1988 the military junta in Burma brutally cracked down on a wave of peaceful uprisings.
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Junta spokesman Winthai Suvaree said the academics did not represent the views of majority of Thais.
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You look at Thailand, where I am now, which is now ruled by a military junta.
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Those divisions are being held in check by a military junta that seized power in 2014.
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"The junta are playing a game," Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a 225-year-old student activist told CNN.
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"The party offers an alternative path," prominent exiled academic and junta critic Pavin Chachavalpongpun told Reuters.
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The standoff was the most high-profile mass demonstration against the junta since the 2014 coup.
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Thailand's military junta organized a remarkable 18-day search and rescue operation that captivated the world.
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"With the opening of the parliament, the Thai junta must eliminate all critical voices," Trairong said.
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One of the more popular chants among protesters prior to Rosselló's resignation was "Ricky renuncia y llévate a la Junta" (Ricky resign and take the Junta with you.) "I have listened to the people's messages, their demonstrations, their demands and their concerns," Pierluisi said in a statement.
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One of the more popular chants among protesters prior to Rosselló's resignation was "Ricky renuncia y llévate a la Junta" (Ricky resign and take the Junta with you.) Pierluisi is also the former resident commissioner, the island's sole non-voting representative in Congress, from 2009-2017.
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The ruling junta, which took power in a May 2014 coup, has struggled to revitalise the economy.
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Since then, the military junta has passed two constitutions shoring up its power and weakening its rivals.
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Myanmar has seen rapid growth in independent media since censorship under a junta was lifted in 2012.
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But more than 29 practitioners have been arrested on immigration charges under the military junta, he said.
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They face additional charges of breaking a junta order that bans public gatherings and with inciting unrest.
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All that has changed under the junta, which has kept a firmer grip on the purse-strings.
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Videla was sentenced to life in prison for human rights abuses, alongside other leaders of the junta.
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However, changes to the junta&aposs democracy-limiting constitution would be impossible without major upheaval, he said.
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Former commerce minister Watana Muangsook said the junta was damaging the country with politically motivated court cases.
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He was arrested in 2004 by the military junta after his father, an intelligence officer, was purged.
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Just this week Thailand's military junta quelled protests marking the fourth anniversary of its seizure of power.
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"I AM not a vacuum cleaner," Prayuth Chan-ocha, who heads Thailand's military junta, insisted last month.
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The military junta, theoretically on the verge of surrendering power, in practice seems determined to retain it.
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So at this point, it's unknown whether the election will be free and fair or junta-influenced.
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Some wonder whether the draft is designed to fail, so that the junta can remain in power.
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Some 1,500 cases have been tried in military courts since the junta seized power in May 2014.
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The junta constructed the city in secret and moved the country's administration there in the mid-2000s.
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Thailand has been ruled by a junta since the military took power in a May 2014 coup.
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The junta has repeatedly delayed elections, citing concerns such as changes to the constitution and security issues.
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The law is a legacy of the crackdown by the then military junta on students on Nov.
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The junta predicts economic growth of 3-4 percent this year after 3.2 percent projected for 3.973.
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When Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy River Delta, the military junta in power praised its own response.
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And more than 100 people have been arrested under lèse-majesté laws since the junta took power.
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The longer the junta is in power, he says, the more popular they are making the opposition.
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When Mengistu's communist junta, known as the Derg, seized power in 1974, imperial statues were torn down.
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Critics of the junta say the constitution will enshrine the military's political role for years to come.
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In 1950, a military junta, claiming Argentina was in the grip of a Communist insurgency, took control.
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Many Greeks blame governments since the fall of the junta of driving the country to near-bankruptcy.
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Rare and cryptic comments from King Maha Vajiralongkorn are widely seen as support for the junta leaders.
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Rejection of the referendum would give the junta a chance to try again with a new proposal.
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The junta seized power in 2014 and brought temporary peace after years of clashes between political factions.
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But having been classed as stateless by former junta rulers, Rohingya could struggle to pass the test.
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Yingluck was impeached last year by a junta-appointed assembly and banned from politics for five years.
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The party wants to keep military junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha on as an elected prime minister.
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His selection was part of the junta leader's plan to restructure the government under the new Constitution.
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His brother-in-law is the head of the board, known as la Junta on the island.
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The junta tried for decades to alter the population balance by bolstering the number of Buddhists there.
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Venezuela's new governing body, known as the constituent assembly, will soon take charge as a ruling junta.
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The military junta that took power in a 2014 coup has especially cracked down on internet commentary.
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The junta has ramped up spending to boost domestic activity but large infrastructure projects have remained slow.
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The K.I.A. was among the first groups to sign a cease-fire with the former ruling junta.
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Burma's former junta was roundly criticized for eschewing outside assistance during the Cyclone Nargis crisis in 2008.
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The junta has promised and postponed elections several times since its 2014 coup overthrew a civilian government.
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The junta had been using it — in military courts operating under its control — to prosecute political opponents.
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No one party won a majority in the House of Representatives in the election, but Palang Pracharat has an advantage under junta-written electoral rules that require the 250-seat upper house Senate, appointed by the junta, to vote along with the 500-seat lower house for prime minister.
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The military junta that is now ruling the country has deployed strict lèse-majesté laws against its critics.
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Cases have spiked in recent years, with reports that the military junta used the law to silence dissent.
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The junta has banned political gatherings of more than five people and summoned hundreds of people for questioning.
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Her supporters say the ruling junta has deliberately targeted Yingluck and wants to silence her family's political machine.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand's prime minister and the leader of its junta, says school reform is urgently needed.
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They are likely to be a significant factor in a general election the junta has promised for November.
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Other Arab autocracies, such as Saudi Arabia, are giving the junta money and encouragement not to back down.
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That is because the ruling junta is more willing to attack protesters than tackle Zimbabwe's fundamental economic problems.
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He said Robredo isn't up to the job - which she refutes - and he'd prefer a junta takes over.
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Equally, though, there&aposs an increasing clamor of voices asserting it&aposs time for the junta to go.
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In the weeks after Mr Bashir's ouster ordinary Sudanese kept up pressure on the junta to cede power.
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The junta demanded that Facebook block 131 "illicit" pages by May 16th or be blocked itself in Thailand.
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When they are not simply bashing the junta, Pheu Thai's candidates try to lure voters with similar handouts.
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Across Myanmar there are thousands of disputes involving alleged land seizures under the junta that ruled for decades.
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Thailand's ruling junta on Tuesday said it is suspending all gold mining operations in the country from Jan.
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Opposition to the junta was muted ahead of the vote in Thailand's northeast, once a hotbed of resistance.
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Violence in the three southern provinces had decreased by 60 percent since the junta took power, Prawit said.
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The junta has argued the measure is necessary to prevent coups in a transition period after the election.
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The junta and the military-backed constitution writing committee say it is not aimed at perpetuating military rule.
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They are also asking for the junta to step down and for soldiers to return to their barracks.
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The legal moves against opponents of the junta have raised questions about the fairness of Thailand's electoral process.
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One man, a junta opponent, was jailed for planting a bomb that wounded 21 people at a hospital.
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The junta, under the self-declared prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has forbidden politics and censored the press.
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Even junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha has a few youthful fans - though they are harder to find.
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The whereabouts of a number of generals allegedly held hostage by the coup junta remained unknown, he said.
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The junta has shown clear support for Vajiralongkorn, whose reputation it is buffing with a lavish publicity campaign.
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The sanctuary law was a legacy of a crackdown by the then military junta on students on Nov.
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The military junta, which seized power in a coup two years ago, derives its authority from the king.
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"Ricky renuncia, y llévate a la junta," went one popular chant during the protests that ultimately ousted Rosselló.
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The current understanding that the junta would only hand over to civilians after 21 months fails this test.
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Diakite is also accused of having organized mass arrests of army officers seen as hostile to the junta.
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The junta has been trying to reform Thai Buddhism since it came to power in a 2014 coup.
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"The section on the parliamentary system is quite new in many regards," said Mr. Panitan, the junta adviser.
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Junta Nakai, global industry leader at AI company Databricks, told Business Insider that the space needs to evolve.
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The junta restricted political assemblies and criticism of the referendum in the months leading up to the vote.
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The army has moved quickly to snuff out recent small anti-junta an anti-constitution protests in Bangkok.
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Thailand has been ruled by a junta since a 2014 coup which was widely condemned by the West.
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Then she is released and, in 2003, attacked by pro-junta thugs who kill several of her supporters.
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Rights groups say the junta has become skittish as an August referendum on a controversial draft constitution nears.
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They denounced the "junta" — or federal control board — that will soon direct this island's failing governance and finances.
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For a moment at least, the ruling junta also seemed to escape from criticism of its authoritarian ways.
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Rosselló and the Junta have worked hard to push through measures that threatened worker salaries, benefits and rights.
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In some cases, that entailed backing regimes that carried out atrocities, like a military junta in El Salvador.
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It's a statement given by General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of Thailand's military junta, in September 2014.
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Their highly original acts of public shaming during the dictatorship (1976 to 1983) helped bring down the junta.
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Thailand is ruled by a military junta that seized control four years ago from a democratically elected government.
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Declaring a state of emergency, the ruling Junta began to crack down on civil liberties and silence dissent.
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In the late '60s, the military junta imprisoned and arrested many artists and intellectuals for their political beliefs.
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Elections this year returned Prayuth Chan-ocha, the head of the junta, to the post of prime minister.
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Abortion was allowed in Chile under some circumstances from 1931 until 1989, when the military junta abolished it.
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Security provisions imposed by the ruling junta have made any political gathering of more than four people illegal.
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A defeat would have forced former junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha's government to either resign or dissolve parliament.
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The monarchy is revered in Thailand, but activists have accused the ruling military junta of manufacturing the delay.
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Suu Kyi had chosen not to leave Myanmar to see him in case the junta blocked her return.
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In a country where a military junta held power from 1964 to 1985, this is a big deal.
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"Prime Minister, I don't eat American pork" read one of the banners addressed to junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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The prosecution was part of a broad crackdown following an election won by the NLD that the junta ignored.
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Human rights groups have accused Catholic officials of covering up abuses by the junta when it was in power.
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The junta says this is needed to smooth a five-year "transitional period" before full civilian rule is restored.
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Although the junta has given the green light to many infrastructure projects, only a little amount has been spent.
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Such an arrangement might suit the junta, which would prefer him not to meddle bluntly in the country's politics.
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The jitters come just as the junta that has run the country since 2014 was beginning to get comfortable.
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The junta is not thought to be held in great esteem by voters; such incidents further dent its standing.
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Its clients have included Altria and the former Burmese military junta, according to U.S. public records and DCI itself.
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The Thai junta has not set a firm timetable for leaving power, but its members are taking no chances.
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Thailand's junta has cracked down on critics of the monarchy since it took power in a May 2014 coup.
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Its leader, Abdel-Fattah Burhan, said the junta would form an interim government and hold elections in nine months.
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The EPRDF liberalised the press after it snatched power from a Marxist junta known as the Derg in 1991.
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The rules were introduced in the 1980s, when the country had fresh memories of a 1967-1974 military junta.
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Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) support the junta and have promised it $3bn in cash.
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But it was not a repeat of June 3rd, which suggests that outside pressure may be restraining the junta.
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The junta has had four years to make its mark, as long as a democratically elected government would have.
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Even before polling day the Election Commission had helped the junta by excluding a party linked to Mr Thaksin.
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Rights groups say the junta has tightened its grip on power and severely repressed rights in the past year.
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Myint Swe served the junta as head of the feared military intelligence and is on the U.S. sanctions list.
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A premature exit by Kim Jong Un that leads to a military junta or another family member taking over.
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Sensing revolt, the junta has started warning that critics of the draft will be hauled away for "attitude adjustment".
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In the 1980s, the US strongly supported Napoleon Jose Duarte, the head of a military junta in El Salvador.
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Thanathorn also faces a separate cybercrime charge over a speech he made on Facebook criticizing the junta in July.
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Ever since a military junta took power in 219.4, the former British colony has long disenfranchised the ethnic minority.
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Junta chief Prayuth's party campaigned on maintaining order and upholding traditional values of loyalty and devotion to the monarch.
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However, Prayuth looked in a good position to remain in office thanks to a new, junta-devised electoral system.
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Myint Swe is a retired general who headed the feared military intelligence agency under former junta leader Than Shwe.
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Myanmar has seen rapid growth in independent media since censorship imposed under the former junta was lifted in 2012.
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The ruling junta threw out the old constitution when it took power in 2014, after months of political insecurity.
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It's a very basic agreement that democracy is better than a military junta and that we all want justice.
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Critics of the junta, including journalists, activists and a few politicians, have been hauled in for "attitude adjustment" sessions.
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Activists have long demanded the West to take action against the country in order to pressure the military junta.
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Record household debt built up under the free-spending government the junta toppled in May 2014 remains a constraint.
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Experts say it is this enduring support that could prove a huge challenge for the junta at the polls.
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The junta, which killed, kidnapped or tortured more than 20,000 Argentines, counted among its members one of his uncles.
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The junta limited public assemblies and threatened long prison terms for people who spread information that it deemed false.
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The Davies case stunned even those observers who are all too familiar with how the Thai military junta operates.
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The junta has stepped up prosecution of lese-majeste cases since the king died, with police investigating 12 cases.
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Critics of the junta have increasingly been hit with charges of computer crimes and sedition, according to rights groups.
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Junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha this week said the military would extend its "attitude adjustment" program period for critics.
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Since the coup, the junta has banned gatherings of more than five people on grounds of maintaining national security.
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This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence.
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" That's something that would not "help the military regime's efforts to convert its junta rule to an elected government.
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A military junta took power, promising to reinvigorate growth by boosting domestic production over imports and tightening immigration controls.
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The junta capitulated in 1994, faced with the threat of a United Nations-sanctioned invasion by United States troops.
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Earlier this year, Thailand's ruling junta, which has sharply increased military spending, pushed through an order for Chinese submarines.
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Palang Pracharat -- which wants junta leader Prayut to return to power -- had 97 seats, according to the Election Commission.
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The junta dismissed suggestions that it should also sign any reconciliation agreement and agree not to stage more coups.
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A conviction could cost Thanathorn his political career, underlining the challenges faced by the anti-junta camp in Thailand.
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His emergence comes as the junta starts registering parties ahead of a frequently delayed election now set for 2019.
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The junta has restricted freedom of speech and assembly, sending perceived political opponents to so-called attitude adjustment camps.
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Ambassadors, junta members, and members of the king's Privy Council were also present at the convention, which came a day after an anti-junta party leader was suspended as a member of parliament over his alleged illegal holding of shares in a media company after registering as a candidate for the election.
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The junta, formally known as the National Council for Peace and Order, has shut down some political lectures and talks.
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Its presence, a vestige of the previous ruling junta, is seen as opposition to the transition to a full democracy.
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The junta has promised an election next year and pushed through a constitution to ensure its oversight of civilian governments.
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The junta in Sudan signed a power-sharing deal with opposition leaders that could pave the way for civilian rule.
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The junta should invite U.S. representatives to come examine Thai products, rather than waiting for them to ask, Jane said.
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No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which some in the military government blamed on groups opposed to the junta.
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Critics of the junta also currently seem willing to accept the diluted democracy it may eventually get around to offering.
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Many in Isaan assume that Prayuth Chan-ocha, the junta leader, will remain prime minister even if elections take place.
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The mixed signals coming from the junta—negotiating one day and making arrests the next—may reflect splits within it.
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But the prime minister and leader of the country's military junta promised that the ballot would take place before May.
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The junta may well have little to do with the show's success, but it has decided to ride the wave.
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A Thaksin-backed political party that earlier this month criticized the junta&aposs performance was rapidly put under police investigation.
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It&aposll be among the most direct challenge yet to the junta and possibly the beginning of turmoil to come.
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On Thursday, 35 Thai activists reported to police after they staged an anti-junta protest last month in downtown Bangkok.
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We hear audio accounts of migrants' deaths in the Mediterranean, and of women pushed from planes during the Chilean junta.
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Politicians and parties at odds with the junta have found themselves in trouble with the courts or the Election Commission.
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The junta has promised to revive the economy by improving infrastructure, but few of its plans have come to fruition.
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The junta, which has been in power for four years, also recently delayed the promised election for the fourth time.
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Future Forward came third in last month's election; the junta says the charges are "entirely unrelated to current political events".
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The junta, meanwhile, is trying to quell criticism of the commission, charging activists who have documented its bias with libel.
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But first the junta wants to pass a new constitution which would keep the hands of elected politicians firmly tied.
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It is a febrile mood, and no end of conspiracy theories posit what a scheming junta intends to do next.
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It is part of a sprawling complex of official buildings built by an unelected junta to withstand a popular uprising.
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But even if the anti-junta alliance failed, the future of democracy in Thailand still looked "very positive," Thanathorn said.
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Thailand's military junta has increased purchases of Chinese hardware, including a further 10 tanks approved by the cabinet on Tuesday.
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Thais would not tolerate the junta for much longer, he added, although it's unclear if he can exploit this dissatisfaction.
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The involvement of Kyaw Ne Win, whose grandfather led Myanmar's ruling junta until 1988, has particularly incensed some NLD lawmakers.
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Meanwhile, the military junta, which seized power in April after months of calls for al-Bashir's removal, is digging in.
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Thailand's ruling junta, which had said it would try to fix the conflict by the end of 2015, trumpets progress.
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You wake up, and a military junta has taken over your country, or some other kind of revolution has happened.
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Junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the 2014 coup, has made no secret of his disdain for the Shinawatras.
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In May, 22003, giving in to public pressure, the junta announced that general elections would be held the next year.
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The junta says 4,000 police officers will be deployed at the court to ensure order when the verdict is announced.
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But, in 1955, a military junta ousted Perón and kidnapped Evita's body, to prevent the possibility of its symbolic usage.
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In one egregious case, it charged eight people for mocking the prime minister and the head of the junta, Gen.
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When the Pinochet coup came on September 11, 1973, the junta jailed Letelier, then minister of defense, for a year.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha was installed as the prime minister and chief of the junta, a move that the king blessed.
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In a bid to lift the economy, the ruling junta has introduced stimulus measures and ramped up investment in infrastructure.
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Masked graffiti artist Headache Stencil has made a name for himself satirizing the junta and its policies on Bangkok's walls.
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There has been little opposition to junta rule since 2014, partly because authorities have arrested and jailed dozens of critics.
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The first time, she was just 21980, taken by an Argentinian junta death squad off the street in broad daylight.
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Some of these errors were subsequently corrected, but knowing how the junta operates, it's impossible not to suspect serious interference.
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The junta adopted an interim Constitution, which gave the head of the regime absolute power over all branches of government.
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Since a military junta seized power in 244, Thai authorities have been monitoring social media to repress any dissenting opinion.
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La cuarentena le había causado problemas a Páez, quien junta cartón y otros materiales y los vende a un reciclador.
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The junta has tightened its control while trying to bask in the popularity, mystique and beliefs that surround the monarchy.
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"I knew Montreal had a very strong Greek community, very anti-junta, and that was all I knew," he said.
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By Friday night, the general who appeared to be in charge of the junta announced that he was stepping down.
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Human rights activists say as many as 30,000 people were killed or forcibly made to disappear under the military junta.
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A tourism website for nearby La Junta, Colorado, even offers a few tips for tourists hoping to spot the adventurers.
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The debt hangover has stymied attempts to stimulate consumption by the junta that seized power from Yingluck's government in 2014.
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"El voto electrónico nos falló esa mañana", dijo días después Julio César Castaños Guzmán, el presidente de la junta electoral.
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The programme was set up under the former military junta to boost growth that has for years lagged regional peers.
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The program was set up under the former military junta to boost growth that has for years lagged regional peers.
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The program was set up under the former military junta to boost growth that has for years lagged regional peers.
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The junta has ramped up investment to lift activity but big infrastructure projects have been slow getting off the ground.
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Covering such subjects is not easy in a country where the transition from decades of junta rule is proving painful.
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In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta.
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The rumors were false and intended to destabilize Thailand, the spokesman for the ruling junta, Colonel Winthai Suvaree, told reporters.
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Suu Kyi is barred from the presidency by a junta-drafted constitution, but runs Myanmar as state counselor and foreign minister.
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As late as October 2014, junta-era language was still in use by Thein Sein's government to explain prison labor policies.
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Activist Surachai Danwattananusorn, 78, who operated an online radio station critical of the junta and monarchy from Laos, disappeared in December.
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Last month, the junta lifted a ban on political activities imposed since the coup, which allows political parties to start campaigning.
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Eight activists were detained by the military on Wednesday over Facebook posts criticizing the draft and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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Netiwit has emerged as a rare critic of the military junta, which has silenced most dissent since seizing power in 2014.
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Rather than lift the shopping power of the rural masses, the junta has aimed to boost spending by tourists and urbanites.
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The junta sees Thailand climbing to a fourth stage of economic development ("Thailand 20103") beyond agriculture, light manufacturing and heavy industry.
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The junta seized power in the name of ending political turmoil and says its measures against dissidents are to preserve stability.
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Junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has said more attacks and unrest could delay the general election, tentatively set for late 2018.
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The junta continued its brutality until 22010, when Argentina was crushed by the British in a war over the Falkland Islands.
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Speaking to Reuters in Singapore, Thaksin, 66, said the junta lacked the vision and talent to fix an economy in disarray.
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The attacks come after Thais voted in favor of a military-backed Constitution following more than two years of junta rule.
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Though she was ousted in a coup in 2014, Ms Yingluck had remained a symbolic figure for opponents of the junta.
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The net result is a chamber that is fairly evenly divided, for the moment, between friends and foes of the junta.
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The sweeping powers that the junta has enjoyed since seizing power in 2014 will lapse once a new cabinet is installed.
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The sweeping powers the junta awarded itself in the wake of the coup will endure until a new cabinet is formed.
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The big picture: The ruling military junta, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, overthrew a democratically elected government in 2014.
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The junta therefore only needs one-quarter of the seats up for grabs to win outright and keep Prayuth in power.
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Although Thaksinites seem likely to win a good share of the House, the entire Senate will be appointed by the junta.
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FOR THE military junta that has ruled Thailand since a coup in 12013, it was a day of ups and downs.
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The new party contested elections in 1990 and won by a landslide, but the results weren't recognized by the military junta.
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But if he does step down, the generals must worry, it may embolden critics to call time on the entire junta.
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Last year he was charged with computer crimes for critical comments about the junta he made in videos streamed on Facebook.
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Suu Kyi is barred from holding the presidency under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens.
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The nation's armed junta controlled the political landscape until it officially dissolved in 2011, having initially staged a coup in 1962.
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Since taking power in 2014, the junta has struggled to revive an economy hobbled by weak exports and slack domestic demand.
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The March 24 vote comes after the ruling junta repeatedly postponed general elections after it overthrew an elected government in 183.
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His sentiment is shared by the Bhumjaithai Party, a political group claiming to be neither supportive nor against the military junta.
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"The prime minister has ordered the military to increase security in populated areas," junta spokesman Major General Sansern Kaewkamnerd told reporters.
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The country has seen a fresh wave of small, anti-junta protests over the past two weeks ahead of an Aug.
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That gives him huge influence over politics as the country waits for an election the junta has tentatively set for 2018.
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Despite the changes in the monarchy, the military junta, which seized power in 2014, remains firmly in control of the government.
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In August, tens of thousands of Oklahoma brown tarantulas moved through the area around La Junta, Colorado in search of females.
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A junta-appointed committee has written a draft for the country's 20th constitution and is expected to unveil it on Friday.
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When Mr. Erdogan's message was aired live on CNNTurk, a private TV channel, the junta soldiers invaded its premises as well.
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But the junta has blocked opponents from campaigning against the measure, banned election monitors and restricted news coverage of the referendum.
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The former activist, who spent years in exile under the junta, was once a strident supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Kan Yuenyong said the publicity drive was timed to coincide with what promises to be a testing year for the junta.
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" Junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree said Watana's charges were a "matter for police" but that his Facebook post was damaging. "Mr.
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Businessman Zaw Zaw, formerly sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for his ties to Myanmar's junta, was also with the Nobel laureate.
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There have been five previous efforts by the Junta de Andalucía—the regional government—and other agencies to help the area.
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In another petition, the commission was asked to ban the party's secretary-general for slandering the junta in a Facebook post.
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"This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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Than Shwe put two other top generals into civilian positions, including Thein Sein as president, and dissolved the junta in 2011.
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Electoral rules blunted the power of some blocs, and the threat of jail time hung over leaders of anti-junta parties.
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More than anything, Thailand should have a government that reflects the will of the people, not the will of the junta.
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Hailed as a champion of democracy for standing up to the junta, Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in 28.
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The junta yielded in 22012 to a nominally civilian government, now led by the National League for Democracy of Suu Kyi.
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If the members of the junta are well known in Sudan, the leaders of the demonstration outside their walls are not.
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She spent 15 years under house arrest after winning a presidential election in 1988, which the ruling junta refused to honor.
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Opposition parties say electoral laws written by the junta were designed to ensure continued control over politics by the military establishment.
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The mass violence followed decades of persecution of the Rohingya, who were stripped of their citizenship by a xenophobic military junta.
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After the protests were joined by teachers, shopkeepers and government workers, Mr. Lescot stepped down, and a military junta took control.
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The military junta revoked his mandate after the 1964 coup d'état, and he went back to work as a civil engineer.
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In response, activists have declared a cyber war on the Thai Junta, attacking government websites and urging tourists to boycott Thailand.
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Junta Nakai is the global industry leader for financial services at Databricks, a company founded by the creators of Apache Spark.
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The junta blamed "vicious rioters" and "communist agitators" for the casualties, saying the military had been there only to protect people.
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Moreover, General Apirat's father, who was also head of the army, led a junta that overthrew an elected government in 1991.
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They also include unelected leaders such as monarchs, religious leaders, military leaders, junta leaders, CEOs of important companies, and NGO leaders.
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The "Thailand Future Fund" was first announced in 2015 as the junta sought to finance investment projects to lift economic growth.
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Over the years, the former junta had reached various more or less explicit cease-fire deals with some 40 armed groups.
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For the past five years, Thailand has been ruled by a military junta headed by coup leader turned prime minister Prayut.
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Many gave the three-finger salute of resistance to the former junta, a symbol drawn from the film The Hunger Games.
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Leftist Salvadoran guerrillas, emboldened by the Marxist Sandinistas' success in neighboring Nicaragua, had been trying to overthrow the country's ruling junta.
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"Even the colonels' junta did not feel it had the political legitimacy to invade occupied universities," it said in a statement.
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"Even the colonels' junta did not feel it had the political legitimacy to invade occupied universities," it said in a statement.
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We remain on the side of the people and democracy, stand against the junta staying in power, and drive progressive agendas.
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The candidate would need majority support from both houses - all 250 senators in the upper house are appointed by the junta.
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The wave of disappearances began around the time that Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha visited Laos in December, activists say.
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Among the candidates for prime minister is the current junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the coup.
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His death comes as Thailand prepares to form a new government after the first elections since a 2014 coup, with a pro-military political party expected to keep current junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha on as prime minister over the objections of opposition parties who say the new junta-written constitution nearly guaranteed army proxies would retain power.
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"We're the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, and the greatest democracy, because we're not a military junta," Duckworth said.
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"The military has harassed and arbitrarily detained scores of junta critics, including activists, students, academics, and media persons," he told VICE News.
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Once the constitution is endorsed by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, the junta will need to draft laws which will guide the electoral process.
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The referendum win should give the junta more legitimacy to advance economic policies such as developing big-ticket infrastructure projects, analysts said.
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On Sunday the mother of a vocal, anti-junta activist was released after being charged with defaming the monarchy two days earlier.
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The efficiency of the operation stands in contrast to the slow pace of reforms, which the junta promised when it took power.
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Every year since his junta came to power in a coup in 2014, it has promised—and failed—to hold an election.
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The rail lines are among 13 big-ticket infrastructure projects worth 1.4 trillion baht the junta hopes to kick-start before 2018.
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But it is hard to see what such talks can achieve when the junta is still hounding Mr Thaksin and his supporters.
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The Transitional Military Council, a junta that took over, has no intention of holding free or fair elections, as the crowds demand.
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Pheu Thai's main opponent, the pro-military Palang Pracharat Party, has said it will nominate junta leader Prayuth as its leading candidate.
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But trust in the junta was further undermined when it arrested several opposition leaders a day after they had met with Abiy.
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Four days after a new patriarch, chosen from Thai Buddhism's more austere fraternity, was installed the junta declared emergency powers over Dhammakaya.
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Under the junta, which lasted half a century, Myanmar had what was regarded as one of the world's strictest systems of censorship.
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The junta hopes for a carefully managed process that gives it more legitimacy and the confidence of Western leaders and foreign investors.
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The military junta that runs the country is enforcing the draconian and anachronistic lèse-majesté law with greater relish than its predecessors.
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Months after the military seized power in a 2014 coup, the junta made waste management a priority and set goals for 2021.
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Under the constitution -- drafted by the former junta -- the military retains 25% of the seats in parliament, and control of security matters.
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The junta leader, Prayuth Chan-ocha, is also contesting the race for prime minister as the candidate of a pro-military party.
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However, any constitutional changes would require the support of the Senate - which is entirely made up of appointees of the previous junta.
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With 94 percent of overall votes counted, the commission reported that the pro-junta Palang Pracharat was leading with 7.69 million votes.
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Disputed elections occurred in 2010, which nevertheless led to the junta dissolving itself to make way for a military-dominated civilian government.
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Then a dart thrown at the map would almost certainly have landed on a one-party state, military junta or outright dictatorship.
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The junta has asked millers to buy rice from farmers at "reasonable prices", and soldiers have visited rice millers to "seek cooperation".
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The junta seems specifically to have intended to keep her out, even though at the time she was still under house arrest.
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If the junta blocks reform, allies such as America should impose financial sanctions and travel bans on its leaders and their cronies.
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Last month, the junta said all gold mining would be abolished by the end of the year over environmental and health concerns.
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Suspicions are rife that junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha, or another military-backed candidate, will seek to become prime minister after elections.
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That summer, the leader of Greece's military junta, which controlled a guerrilla group in Cyprus, ousted Archbishop Makarios, who went into exile.
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The junta in Greece collapsed, but during peace talks Turkey sent in a second wave of troops in August, overrunning the north.
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The junta has been careful not to label the latest wave of bombings terrorism, a designation that could scare off potential visitors.
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But no matter the outcome, the junta will remain in control until it decides to hand power back to an elected government.
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There were no street curfews, no violent crackdowns, no appointment of a military junta to take control of the levers of power.
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In 2014, the junta overthrew the elected government for the second time in a decade and suspended most of the Constitution. Gen.
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Editorial A few months after a military junta overthrew President Isabel Perón of Argentina in 1976, the country's new foreign minister, Adm.
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On Monday evening, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand, the nation's junta chief, made his second visit to the cave site.
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In elections called by the junta, Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín was chosen president, and the country has been under democratic rule ever since.
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The junta appointed the election commission and has interfered with the work of what are supposed to be independent agencies and institutions.
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Perspective: In an Op-Ed, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's former prime minister, accuses the military junta of interfering in this weekend's general elections.
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It also helped create the conditions for the 1973 coup in which a military junta overthrew Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.
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At one time, Mr. Mahathir might have been more suited to the hall of infamy that included Asia's despots and junta chiefs.
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En la elección presidencial de 2016, la junta electoral demoró 13 días en contar los votos que se emitieron de manera electrónica.
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La gente con antecedentes similares se queda junta, como metidos en la misma olla de caramelo, a salvo en una melcocha impenetrable.
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Thailand was run by a military junta for five years after then-army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha overthrew an elected government.
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BANGKOK — He is already prime minister of Thailand and the chief of a military junta that seized power in a 2014 coup.
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The site in Thilawa had been earmarked for industrial use under the junta government in 1996, but the original plans fell through.
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His parents fled Chile in the 1970s during the military junta and worked out a life of comfort in the United States.
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Human rights groups have voiced concern about the re-establishment of normal relations while Thailand's junta continues to crack down on critics.
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The problem is that, since a coup against the democratically elected government in 2014, Thailand has been ruled by a military junta.
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In February, three exiled Thai anti-junta activists who had been living in Laos – Siam Theerawut, Chucheep Chivasut and Kritsana Thapthai – disappeared.
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It nominated Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta that orchestrated the 2014 coup, to continue in his post.
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The ruling junta says it will not send Mr. al-Bashir to face those charges at the international court in The Hague.
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And then in February, three more Laos-based activists who were critics of Thailand's ruling junta vanished, last heard from in Vietnam.
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However, under a constitution drafted by the former junta, the military retains 25% of the seats in parliament, and control of security matters.
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"Restriction on the Dhammakaya temple is revoked," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters after a meeting between the junta and the cabinet.
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Take the moves by the military junta in Myanmar to move the capital from Rangoon (Yangon) 180 miles north to Naypyidaw in 183.
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The junta in charge, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has sent the country's nosier journalists to camps for "re-education".
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King Vajiralongkorn withheld his assent for the draft constitution championed by Thailand's military junta, asking for changes that would make him more powerful.
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This breached the palace's own rules and surprised the junta, igniting fears among outsiders that the succession was being contested behind the scenes.
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The TMC blamed Monday's violence on "unknown elements," but observers say all armed groups in Khartoum have some links back to the junta.
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A spokesman for the junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order, said it was not focused on the two Shinawatras.
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The English version of "Excluded Term" omits references to the military junta and loses some of the historical darkness of the Spanish version.
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The junta has promised and postponed the election several times since it came to power, with the latest date set for Feb. 24.
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Others have warned the junta needs to return Thailand to civilian rule within its promised time frame or risk fanning flames of discontent.
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The junta had pledged to wean farmers off expensive subsidies used by the government it overthrew, including a rice scheme that cost billions.
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"We are pleased with the results so far," declared Uttama Savanayana, the leader of Palang Pracharat and a former minister for the junta.
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Known as the Saffron Revolution, the uprising included long processions of Buddhist monks taking to the streets in defiance of the military junta.
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After the junta installed a quasi-civilian government, the country announced in 323 that it was ending pre-publication censorship of news reports.
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But election speeches will be allowed only at venues managed by the Election Commission appointed by the junta, perhaps only during working hours.
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The only thing the episode appears to have achieved is to heighten the tension between Pheu Thai and the parties backing the junta.
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The junta has therefore enhanced the proportional part of the system and encouraged a proliferation of small parties to take advantage of it.
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But after repeatedly delaying elections, frustration with the junta and its leader, former army chief Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, is visibly growing.
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Junta chief and current Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last said in August that a general election would be held in 2017.
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Polls show that non-junta parties, including those linked to the populist politician Thaksin Shinawatra, will do well if the vote is free.
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Even though existing parties are not allowed to do any campaigning or organising, several new, pro-junta parties are being allowed to form.
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