Thailand remains under military rule following a coup in 2014.
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His intervention led to the subsequent collapse of military rule.
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It's been 33 years since military rule ended in Brazil.
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Critics have said they fear a return to military rule.
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One in six Americans of all ages supports military rule.
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He played a part in the military rule over us.
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Thailand has reverted to military rule, with elections repeatedly postponed.
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Myanmar began emerging from 49 years of military rule in 2011.
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His businesses kept their noses clean during years of military rule.
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The generals announce two years of military rule followed by elections.
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Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999 after decades of military rule.
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It is not a military rule, where dissent will be crushed.
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Thailand has been under military rule since a coup in 2014.
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Today there is also much confusion about the economy under military rule.
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Conde's first election win in 2010 ended two years of military rule.
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He has also toyed with the idea of bringing back military rule.
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A period of political chaos and military rule followed my grandfather's assassination.
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The result, in many countries, was decades of instability and military rule.
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AFTER FIVE decades of military rule, the Burmese have grown accustomed to propaganda.
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"We have no interest or desire to perpetuate military rule," Norachit told Reuters.
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Brazilians have elected Jair Bolsonaro, who fondly recalls the days of military rule.
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They had come to join the swelling ranks of protesters against military rule.
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Egypt ultimately just replaced an iron-fisted dictatorship with iron-fisted military rule.
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Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule.
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In South Korea student-led protests in the 20103s helped end military rule.
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Her way was the democratic way — not the authoritarian way of military rule.
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Many top officials in her government also were political prisoners during military rule.
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Finally, at only 17 percent, there is weak public enthusiasm for military rule.
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But I opposed Mr. Sisi's seizure of power because I oppose military rule.
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The country was under military rule from the 1960s until the mid-1980s.
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But his nostalgia for the days of military rule has alarmed many Brazilians.
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Experts say that Mr. Bouteflika is a front for what is essentially military rule.
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This is the first such intervention since the end of military rule in 1985.
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Suu Kyi's party won by a landslide after years of opposition to military rule.
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Despite his country's return to military rule, Tarek still recalls the protests with excitement.
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They overrode his veto on legislation that imposed military rule on the defeated South.
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"Killing of a student, killing of a nation, down with military rule," protesters chanted.
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The railway ministry's history of accidents and scandal spans both civilian and military rule.
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An Essebsi loyalist has proposed military rule for Gafsa, where the phosphate mines are.
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Myanmar has seen an upsurge in Buddhist nationalism since the end of military rule.
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But that era came to an abrupt end with the return of military rule.
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The second was public openness to nondemocratic forms of government, such as military rule.
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The Alliance Against Military Rule surrounded the Legislative Yuan and clashed with the police.
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The Korean Peninsula came under Japanese military rule three years after Yu was born.
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His strategy and leadership are considered seminal in Georgia's freedom from British military rule.
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Journalist Win Tin was one of Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoners during military rule.
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Thailand has been under military rule since a 2014 coup toppled an elected government.
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Argentina's military rule had ended a year earlier, and Brazil's ended a year later.
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At stake is the future of Myanmar's transition toward democracy after years of military rule.
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Myanmar's SOEs are not unique in the region in being legacies of dirigiste military rule.
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At stake is the future of Myanmar's transition towards democracy after years of military rule.
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Older people, those who have seen or even lived the alternative, overwhelmingly reject military rule.
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In 1973, he intervened personally after bloodshed in Bangkok when students demonstrated against military rule.
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In 1982, he was part of an underground group caught hanging posters decrying military rule.
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Politics no longer favours the hardliners, who tend to flourish during periods of military rule.
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Nobel laureate Suu Kyi took power last year amid a transition from full military rule.
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Democrats denounced Grant as a would-be dictator who governed the South by military rule.
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It is the seventh consecutive democratic elections since the end of military rule in 1992.
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Most of the Palestinians who remained within Israel were placed under military rule until 2115.
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Nearly five decades of military rule has left Myanmar mired in poverty and plagued by corruption.
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Myanmar has had vibrant growth in its internet businesses after the country emerged from military rule.
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Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for military rule, took office as Brazil's president.
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The bureaucracy is staffed almost entirely by people appointed during Myanmar's 50 years of military rule.
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Even before the two Palestinian uprisings, of 1987 and 2000, Israeli military rule was hardly gentle.
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During the war (but after the end of military rule) black-ops groups infiltrated the state.
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Thailand held a long-awaited general election on March 24 after five years of military rule.
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Throughout the square the same words ring out, again and again: Down, down with military rule!
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That long-standing division shows little sign of having disappeared despite four years of military rule.
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In that vein, Egypt pushed through an African Union resolution endorsing extended military rule in Sudan.
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Trump's 'favorite dictator' just rounded up 2,000 people peacefully calling for an end to military rule
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It would remove him from actually overseeing the country in a Gadhafi-style authoritarian military rule.
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The result "should not be regarded as a mandate for extended military rule," the newspaper said.
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Protests against military rule have taken place intermittently in Bangkok since the start of the year.
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Many see her as the country's best chance to prevent a backslide into absolute military rule.
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As a result, Brazil's democracy is now weaker than it has been since military rule ended.
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The imperial court ran Xinjiang under loose military rule, allowing indigenous elites to manage local affairs.
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"Ugandans cannot be free unless they free themselves from military rule and lawless rule," Wine said.
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And the economy has continued to grow as the country emerges from isolation under military rule.
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During the many years of military rule, the Tatmadaw fanned local ethnic divisions throughout the country.
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He warned that weakening her could interfere with the country's transition from decades of military rule.
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It also declared its opposition to "foreign interference" and to "any initiative aimed at normalizing military rule".
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Until recently, calls for a return of military rule only came from small groups on the fringes.
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Its economy remained turbo-charged throughout its transition away from military rule in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Her model was her father, a parliamentarian who had resigned in 1971 to protest against military rule.
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Thailand has been under military rule since a May 2014 coup to end months of street protests.
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After a brief period of military rule, elections in 2012 resulted in a parliament dominated by Islamists.
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The case has raised concern about the outlook for Myanmar's transition after decades of harsh military rule.
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"It just brings back the memory of the horrible practices with the repressive military rule," he said.
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I grew up in Rio and was a teenager in the 1970s, when Brazil had military rule.
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Myanmar has renewed efforts to list the site since a transition from military rule began in 2011.
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Brazil suffered under military rule between 1964 to 1985, during which hundreds of political opponents were disappeared.
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The release comes amid a raging debate in neighboring Brazil about its own period of military rule.
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He sympathizes with Korean victims of Japanese colonial military rule and Korea's own military dictatorships, as well.
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Nobel laureate Suu Kyi took power in April 2016 as part of a transition from military rule.
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It was of a piece with the plunder and lies of a half-century of military rule.
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I'd seen a transition from military rule to democracy in Ghana when I was in high school.
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Most are ethnic Karen from eastern Myanmar who fled conflict and often persecution during decades of military rule.
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It's important for me that they see the conditions Palestinians living under Israel's military rule have to endure.
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He is a close adviser to Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's populist president-elect, who is wistful for military rule.
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A seven-term congressman, Mr Bolsonaro is a political insider in Brazil but one nostalgic for military rule.
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Going Further Just this week Myanmar's first freely elected Parliament after half a century of military rule opened.
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Blatant dictatorship — in the form of fascism, communism, or military rule — has disappeared across much of the world.
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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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"We declare that the democratic front who opposes military rule commands the majority in the House," Sudarat said.
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While pushing the military for constitutional reform, she must also avoid antagonism and a return to military rule.
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With the president now under house arrest, the question is whether military rule will be lasting or temporary.
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The former army captain has spoken favorably about military rule, and holds deeply conservative positions on social issues.
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The international community needs to recognize that the 2008 Constitution embeds criminal military rule and has to change.
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In February, the country held its first municipal council elections since the end of military rule in 2010.
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Myanmar emerged from decades of military rule in 2011, but religious violence has marred its transition to democracy.
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That day, a coup d'état overthrew the left-wing president João Goulart, prefiguring two decades of military rule.
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Analysts had predicted the vote to be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule two decades ago.
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The men responsible were part of the United States-trained death squads upholding military rule in El Salvador.
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Watch "Escape From Myanmar" Read "Historic Day in Myanmar as New Parliament Opens, Ending Decades of Military Rule"
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Following a multiparty election in 2010, Myanmar "rejoined the international community" after decades of harsh military rule and isolation.
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During this time, millions of Koreans suffered under military rule, forced labor, and forced conscription into Japan's armed forces.
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama made a priority of encouraging democratic change in Myanmar after decades of military rule.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's long-delayed general election to end military rule will have to be postponed from its Feb.
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"It's only a matter of time before Sudan falls again to military rule," says Muhammad Osman, a Sudanese analyst.
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Fully 84m people are registered to vote in the country's sixth general election since military rule ended in 1999.
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He said it would add to a small but worrying trend of Brazilians favoring a return to military rule.
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Critics argue the constitution, to replace one torn up by the military after the coup, will entrench military rule.
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China, which built close ties with Myanmar while it was under military rule and Western sanctions, has been supportive.
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The country's parliament has chosen Htin Kyaw as the new leader, bringing decades of military rule to a close.
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The vote is a reminder that many middle-class Thais can stomach military rule if it serves their interests.
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Many draw parallels with the repression during Gamal Abdel Nasser's military rule, minus his heady rhetoric of Arab nationalism.
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Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, who headed the DOI-CODI, the intelligence agency responsible for suppressing critics during military rule.
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Her words were a bitter twist on "joy is coming," the slogan from the campaign that ended military rule.
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And, sure enough, after her election Suu Kyi became a smoke screen for Buddhist extremism and oppressive military rule.
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Insurgencies dogged Myanmar through decades of military rule, and fighting has also recently flared near the border with China.
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A majority of Indians, 53 percent, support military rule, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last week.
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Myanmar is emerging from five decades of military rule that left it one of the poorest countries in Asia.
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"The groups that benefited from military rule, they don't like the political class that share this power," Haqqani said.
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Argentina has spent less than several of its neighbors on defense since the end of military rule in 1983.
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He also joined the governing coalition that overthrew military rule in 1991 and that has run Ethiopia ever since.
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The country has vacillated between the two parties since the advent of democracy in 1991, when military rule ended.
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Turkey's recent history has been filled with military coups, and the Islamists chafed more than others under military rule.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for leading a campaign against military rule.
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It's a shocking turn of events for a leader once internationally renowned for her long struggle against military rule.
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She stood for the rights of all of Myanmar's citizens in the face of decades of oppressive military rule.
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I'm often asked what it's like living under military rule and the lèse-majesté laws that are ferociously enforced.
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Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for opposing military rule and promoting democracy in her country.
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Now Brazil's restored democracy is headed by Jair Bolsonaro, a socially conservative Pentecostalist who is openly nostalgic for military rule.
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With the start of Myanmar's transition away from military rule in 2011, villagers began actively demanding the return of land.
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The longtime king of Thailand recently died, and the country has been under military rule for the past few years.
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The PDP was the inheritor of decades of military rule in 1999, and held power until Jonathan's defeat in 2015.
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And Thailand's companies are keen on tie-ups in Vietnam, to flee low growth and irascible military rule at home.
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Students and democracy activists have also been prosecuted in military courts for campaigning against military rule under a sedition law.
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Voters in Thailand are set to choose their next government on Sunday after five years of living under military rule.
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And international organizations including the United Nations say freedom of assembly and speech have suffered huge setbacks under military rule.
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Under the 60 years of mostly military rule that followed, the spirit of the Panglong agreement has never been honoured.
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Coups, chaos or conflict caused democracy to collapse in one nation after another, bringing in military rule or religious strife.
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Myanmar has moved toward civilian government in recent years after decades of military rule, though the military retains significant power.
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The constitution drafted under military rule after a 1999 coup has been at the heart of Ivory Coast's prolonged crisis.
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Opponents of military rule say the ban, backed up by legal action against those who violate it, has stifled dissent.
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Rising anger The repeated postponement of elections has angered many Thais hoping for political stability after years of military rule.
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He'll take office on April 1, becoming the country's first democratically elected leader after half a century of military rule.
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Finally, those who had lived under occupation since 1967 would be free from repressive Israel's military rule to govern themselves.
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The city was no longer defined by lawlessness, as it had been under military rule, but it still felt precarious.
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Then-president Rómulo Betancourt, responsible for restoring democracy to the country after a decade of military rule, had openly condemned Castro.
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Ms Suu Kyi's dignified resistance to military rule has made her a hero to many around the world—and deservedly so.
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Thailand is currently under military rule and the regime is widely criticized by human rights groups for being oppressive and undemocratic.
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"Our main goal is to retake our city, we reject injustice and military rule," BDB commander Mustafa al-Sharksi told reporters.
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The year before President Zia ul-Haq had brought in military rule and severe hudood punishments, so her firm was needed.
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Suu Kyi is the Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent her life fighting for an end to military rule in Myanmar.
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Many "Yes" voters may have calculated that even a heavily-handicapped democracy is better than more years of straightforward military rule.
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During the night of July 15th, Turks of all stripes managed to protect their country from a relapse into military rule.
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It is an entire generation of Egyptians who are now witnessing a depressing return to the darkest days of military rule.
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Official monitoring of the population was widespread during military rule in Myanmar and the domestic intelligence agencies have not been disbanded.
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The party launched this year, hoping to woo young people and win backing from those seeking an alternative to military rule.
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That said, if the scene can thrive and survive through military rule in the 80s, it can probably get through anything.
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Watch "The Kohistan Story: Killing for Honor" Read "Historic Day in Myanmar as New Parliament Opens, Ending Decades of Military Rule"
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Her courage in the face of military rule made her an inspiration to people all over the world, including the Rohingya.
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Luciano Benjamín Menéndez of Argentina misstated the given name of the president whose election ended years of military rule in Argentina.
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Argentina has done more than any of its neighbors to punish people for crimes committed during the era of military rule.
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After more than two decades advocating for a return to military rule, his rhetoric is finally catching up to public opinion.
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In 1987, 19 days of violent street demonstrations led by students, workers and even young managers ended his successor's military rule.
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In 2014, when Islamist militias were terrorizing the city, he vowed to declare military rule and rid the country of Islamists.
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General Zia-ul-Haq implemented similar laws in Pakistan in 1979, for instance, in an effort to legitimize his military rule.
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In 1963, during an era defined by censorship, military rule, and a ban on foreign travel, Wook-kyung left South Korea.
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The way to peace, justice, and human rights will come through democratic rule of law, and not a return to military rule.
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He also embraced incendiary rhetoric against indigenous, LGBTQ, and other minority populations, and expressed nostalgia for the country's decades under military rule.
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On March 24th Thai voters will elect a new parliament, putting an end to five years of direct military rule (see article).
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Holy folk have often been at the forefront of politics, leading the failed "saffron revolution" against military rule in 2007, for instance.
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Extreme nationalism In 2015, there was hope that the election of Suu Kyi after decades of military rule would calm religious tensions.
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India, the world's largest democracy, is showing an appetite for military rule — a potential indicator that the country's nationalist politics are evolving.
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Some may wonder, how can the United States lift the sanctions without making it seem like they're condoning the current military rule?
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In a country that spent most of the past century under brutal military rule, the symbolism of the military presence was unmistakable.
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Mr. Duterte's new crackdown is not martial law, which would involve the suspension of normal law and the imposition of military rule.
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Ne Win, who ushered in nearly half a century of military rule, hundreds of thousands of South Asians fled Burma for India.
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The big picture: The former army captain has a penchant for insulting women, gay people and minorities, and an affinity for military rule.
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In OPEC-member Venezuela, crude output is near its lowest levels in 70 years amid an economic crisis and mismanagement under military rule.
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It would be naive to expect the NLD to repair in a year the damage done by half a century of military rule.
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Her longtime confidante Htin Kyaw was sworn in as the country's first democratically-elected president in March, ending 56 years of military rule.
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When Aung San Suu Kyi took control of Myanmar's government last year after 50 years of military rule, Rakhine state was already seething.
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In her prim school uniform, she also scaled the gate of the Punjab governor's house to plant a black flag against military rule.
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BANGKOK – A court in Thailand has extended the detention of 15 pro-democracy activists arrested earlier this week for protesting against military rule.
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For many Thais, the students said, the referendum is also a vote on the legitimacy of military rule since a May 2014 coup.
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As the former Burma emerges from nearly 50 years of neglect under military rule, Yangon has been transformed into a vast construction site.
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Military rule While Suu Kyi is the most powerful civilian politician in Myanmar, the country's military still possesses a great deal of influence.
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Telenor is one of numerous foreign entrants to Myanmar as the nation opens up its economy following years of isolation under military rule.
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José Sarney became president in 20183, when the man Congress chose after 22018 years of military rule died before he was sworn in.
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The Future Forward Party launched this year hoping to attract young people and win backing from those seeking an alternative to military rule.
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She compared the case against her to the period of military rule when she was one of hundreds of people detained and tortured.
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The country seems likely instead to elect a right-wing authoritarian who favors violence against gay people and speaks approvingly of military rule.
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Minzayar Oo is one of Myanmar's most prominent photographers and has worked for various media outlets, covering the country's emergence from military rule.
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Many Latin American countries transitioned from military rule to democracy; after the end of the Cold War, much of Eastern Europe followed suit.
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Civilian leaders expressed cautious optimism that the deal would offer a way out of the crisis, and signal an end to military rule.
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Political gatherings are banned by the junta but there have been scattered protests against military rule, most quickly quelled by troops and police.
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Nigeria's public services have been hollowed out by years of corruption, and some locals remember the era of military rule as more orderly.
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Bolsonaro has not gone that far in his presidential campaign, but his nostalgia for the days of military rule has alarmed many Brazilians.
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Suu Kyi came to power in a landslide election victory in 2015 that brought an end to half a century of military rule.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the assassinated Burmese independence hero, Aung San, endured 22.7 years of house arrest in confronting military rule.
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It's a quasi democracy at best, in delicate transition from military rule, a nation at war with itself and yet to be forged.
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An earlier version of this obituary misstated the given name of a former president of Argentina whose election ended years of military rule.
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"I demand respect for everything we've been through," she said in response to Mr. Bolsonaro's decision to celebrate the start of military rule.
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Some officials and analysts fear that Myanmar is heading toward the kind of isolation it experienced during the decades of outright military rule.
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The disappearances began almost immediately after the coup, with opponents of military rule snatched from the streets and taken to clandestine torture centers.
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On Wednesday, he asked the public to be patient as the country's first predominantly civilian government took over after decades of military rule.
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Francis Pangilinan, the leader of the opposition in the Senate, argued that the victory in Marawi ended the need for continued military rule.
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Military rule should be extended in Mindanao given threats from Maoist guerrillas, Islamist militants and separatist groups, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said.
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The current government was elected in 2013, taking the helm of a country that has bounced between civilian-led governments and military rule.
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A vibrant domestic media has sprung up since the transition from military rule began in 2011 and pre-publication censorship was lifted in 2012.
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Yet with each passing day of military rule, and each new step to expand settlements, the door to such a deal is closed further.
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Daily La Tercera called Pinera's 14% approval rating a "historical minimum," and the lowest since the 1973-1990 military rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Tens of thousands of people marched through Sudan in protest against military rule almost a month after government forces killed more than 100 people.
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However, many Thais and international observers are skeptical of those claims, as the new constitution will cement military rule throughout the country's governmental institutions.
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This was the first time that Nigeria's head of state had sacked a chief justice since 1975, when the country was under military rule.
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To Palestinians and their international supporters, Ahed has become a symbol of resistance to Israel&aposs half-century-old military rule over the Palestinians.
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Thailand held general elections in March and a pro-army coalition of parties has formed a government, officially ending five years of military rule.
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Buhari's presidency ended a period from the end of military rule in 1999 until 2015 when the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was in power.
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Some say his decision to speak about his role that night violates an unspoken military rule: Don't bring attention to yourself for your service.
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As Turkey embarks on the process of updating the constitution, introduced in 1982 during the period of military rule, the country is deeply divided.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has led the country's civilian administration since last year, amid a transition from full military rule.
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Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, swept to power in a historic election in November after decades of campaigning against military rule.
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Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest during military rule, visited the United States as the leader of the opposition in September 2012.
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Two men were also jailed for their involvement in the murder, which raised concern about Myanmar's transition to democracy after decades of military rule.
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He has been advocating for a return to military rule for more than 20 years but these days his message is finding new resonance.
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There must be no more military rule in Libya: an executive and legislature bodies must be elected by the people through the legitimate process.
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Cardinal Bergoglio recalls his inability to protect two radical Jesuits in Buenos Aires who, in the era of military rule, were abducted and tortured.
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Analysts say the poll pitting President Muhammadu Buhari against businessman Atiku Abubakar will be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule in 1999.
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The country was under direct military rule for more than half its 71-year existence, and the army still retains huge power and influence.
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Myanmar's incarceration of more than 2,000 journalists, activists, politicians and even comedians during decades of military rule was a key factor behind Western sanctions.
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However that started to change in 1999 when Nigeria left behind decades of military rule to become a democracy, sparking renewed interest in politics.
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A clear endorsement of the United States' belief that Thailand is headed towards democracy trumps the idea that lifting sanctions condemnations of military rule.
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After more than four years of military rule, a ballot is slated to be held in February 2019, eight years after the last elections.
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She returns to Myanmar to care for her dying mother in 1988 and gets swept up in nationwide protests against decades of military rule.
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Her election in 2015 marked the end of a decades-long era of military rule, but the military still retains control over border affairs.
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In 1991, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) toppled the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose communist regime had imposed military rule since 1974.
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That unified stand ultimately led to the election in 2015 of the country's first civilian government after a half-century of direct military rule.
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We have been under military rule since 173, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country.
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While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.
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He is likely to entertain the idea of bringing back a New Order-style military rule, even though many within the military may disagree.
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During Myanmar's decades of military rule, many of the party's leaders were imprisoned, including Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was freed in 2010.
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He later joked that he would take personal responsibility for any Filipino soldier who had committed rape in the course of administering military rule.
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Mr. Kim had little in common ideologically or in political background with the other two Kims, both of whom were dissidents during military rule.
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A joke about life under decades of Burmese military rule told of a man who walked to a neighboring country to find a dentist.
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"I thought this kind of thing happened only under the past military rule," CJ's chairman, Sohn Kyung-shik, told a parliamentary hearing last month.
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But she has remained popular at home since coming to power 2016 as part of the transition to democracy after decades of military rule.
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Supporting military rule has been the centerpiece of Bolsonaro's three-decade career in politics, and his young supporters subscribe to his version of history.
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The case was widely seen by the domestic media as a warning that military affairs remained off-limits even though direct military rule had ended.
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Many diplomats, however, believe Myanmar's fragile transition to democracy after 49 years of military rule would be jeopardized if she publicly criticized the armed forces.
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America helped push once-pariah-nation Myanmar, also known as Burma, out of China's orbit and towards democracy after years of iron-grip military rule.
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Provincial identities remain strong, and years of interference by the deep state, including three periods of direct military rule, have stunted the country's political evolution.
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As many as 30,000 people were "disappeared" during the seven years of military rule that followed the 1976 overthrow of the government of Isabel Perón.
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The People's Democratic Party, ousted by Buhari after dominating politics since military rule ended in 5003, has accused its successor of conducting a witch-hunt.
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Prayuth declared an end to more than five years of military rule on Monday, saying that the country must now function as a normal democracy.
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Suspicion is likely to focus either on political dissidents opposed to military rule or Muslim separatists based in the south of the predominately Buddhist country.
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And after 50 years of military rule, will the creaking bureaucracy be able to adapt and at least try to meet the citizenry's high expectations?
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When explaining why he moved from his birth country, Khan told The Washington Post it was because, in the 1970s, Pakistan was under military rule.
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But as Myanmar grows richer, opening up after decades of military rule, there are fears that fewer women are willing to part with their locks.
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Socially conservative and male-dominated, Myanmar lived under military rule for half a century until the election of the first fully civilian government in 2015.
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After many years of military rule in Peru during the 21973s and 20063s, García, then a charismatic young lawyer, was elected to Congress in 22006.
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A vote to end direct military rule has slid into confusion, with accusations of cheating and both main rivals claiming they can form a government.
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The country, which has been under military rule since 2014, is deeply polarized, but King Bhumibol has been a unifying figure, even in ill health.
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Dozens tearfully chanted, "Down with military rule" and "Blood for blood, we will not accept blood money" near the bodies that were covered in flags.
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Argentina's own immunity laws were overturned in the early 2000s, and its prosecutors have since charged thousands with human rights violations committed under military rule.
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Mr. Duterte announced the measures on Thursday, emphasizing that they were to protect the public and that there would be no return to military rule.
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Karn had joined an activist campaign calling for elections during a period of military rule that ended with a general election this year, Winyat said.
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Nigeria's constitution, established upon the country's transition from military rule to a democratic government, requires presidential election candidates to be at least 0003 years old.
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The president imposed military rule on the island of Mindanao two and a half years ago, after an Islamist rebellion in the city of Marawi.
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He passed the bar in jail and became a human rights lawyer, fighting for democracy and labor rights while the country was under military rule.
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The Interpreter Presidents are increasingly asking militaries to bail them out of crises, surfacing painful memories in a region where many grew up under military rule.
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My grandparents and all those Palestinian Arabs who remained and became citizens of the state of Israel were placed under military rule in Israel until 1966.
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The case was widely seen as a warning that military affairs remained off-limits even though direct military rule had ended and censorship had been lifted.
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Its response to a musical protest against military rule, Prathet Ku Mi ("What my country's got"), suggests it may already be trying to change its tune.
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In an apartment turned into a classroom, he explains how decades of military rule have weakened the profession and impaired readers' ability to assess information critically.
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They began to dream of gaining full strategic parity with their much larger neighbour, but they lacked public backing for bigger spending and indefinite military rule.
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"We will defend democracy and refuse military rule," said Mahgoub Bushra, a 45-year-old accountant who brought his two young children to the protest site.
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In neighbouring Myanmar, an election and formal transfer of power in 2015 should have marked the end of more than half a century of military rule.
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Ivory Coast's previous constitution, drafted under military rule following a 1999 coup, was at the heart of a decade of turmoil that included two civil wars.
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The case was widely seen as a warning that military affairs remained off-limits even though direct military rule had ended and censorship had been lifted.
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China hopes to regain some of the influence it enjoyed when Myanmar was under military rule, but Miss Suu Kyi, an icon of democracy, is wary.
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His 20-year sentence was largely symbolic because he is already imprisoned for other crimes, including the abduction of babies during the years of military rule.
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He eventually backed off, but raised the prospect that Haftar might defy the international community and attempt to assert control and establish military rule in Libya.
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Thailand's long-awaited election will be held on March 24, the country's Election Commission announced Wednesday, after almost five years of military rule.
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The youth voice The voters candidates will be hoping to win over are young people who came of age during the coup and subsequent military rule.
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"It's the sort of crude repression that recalls dark periods of Pakistani history under military rule," said Omar Waraich, deputy South Asia director for Amnesty International.
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But his dream was to attend the Defense Services Academy, the surest route to success for a young man during a half-century of military rule.
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"Argentina's armed forces began to atrophy after the end of the military rule," said Dan Wasserbly, the Americas editor of IHS Jane's, a defense-industry publication.
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Led by Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar is in the early stages of a transition to democracy after decades of military rule.
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From 1970 to 1974, Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra was the head of the DOI-CODI, the intelligence agency responsible for stamping out critics during military rule.
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Critics disappointed with Aung San Suu Kyi's first year in power say the case highlights the gaps in Myanmar's transition from military rule to full democracy.
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While most people in both major political parties oppose military rule, 23 percent of Republicans are attracted to this model, compared to 14 percent of Democrats.
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When I look at the West Bank as an Israeli, I see 2.5 million Palestinian civilians living under military rule, with all the misery that entails.
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Some say the charter will consolidate military rule by ensuring the generals have a say in political life, even after a general election tentatively set for 2018.
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Two of the red shirt leaders, Nattawut Saikua and Jatuporn Prompan, have been taken into custody several times since the 2014 coup for protesting against military rule.
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For the youth of Myanmar, like Wa Lone, that sharp turn of events brought a sudden, historically improbable expectation of freedom after decades of brutal military rule.
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One rumour claims that, before military rule ended in 25, a biker threatened a general with a finger-gun gesture and was able to escape with ease.
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The accusations have ratcheted up tensions in a country whose six decades of independence have been marked by long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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Two-way trade has grown to about $2.2 billion as India courts Myanmar following the gradual end of military rule, but Indian-funded projects have moved slowly.
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The party sprang not from trade unions but from elites desperate to establish a bulwark against communism after the end of military rule in the mid-1970s.
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Relations between the armed forces and Suu Kyi will define the success of Myanmar's most significant break from military rule since the army seized power in 1962.
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Two-way trade has grown to around $2.2 billion as India courted Myanmar following the gradual end of military rule, but Indian-funded projects have moved slowly.
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After decades of military rule, Nobel laureate Suu Kyi took the reins in 2016 after an electoral landslide, but is forced to share power with the generals.
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In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, a corrupt and incompetent ruling party was voted out for the first time since the end of military rule in 1999.
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They were among the few media organizations providing the world independent coverage of Myanmar when it was under military rule before a democratic transition began in 2011.
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The protagonist Si'r, a bright, impulsive 14-year-old, is enrolled in a secondary school where the uniforms and regimentation provide an unforced parallel to military rule.
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Crowds chanted: "Killing of a student, killing of a nation, down with military rule," at the rare rally in the center of the heavily-guarded Sudanese capital.
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Suu Kyi inherited the long-running ethnic conflicts when she came to power last year amid a transition from decades of military rule that wrecked rural economies.
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Over the past two decades, according to data from the World Values Survey, the proportion of Americans who express approval for military rule has more than doubled.
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There was also the large, unexplained hole Havelange left in the finances of the Brazilian soccer federation, of which he was the longtime president under military rule.
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They were among the few media organisations providing the world independent coverage of Myanmar when it was under military rule before a democratic transition began in 2011.
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Her decision to run could change the entire outlook for the long-delayed election, which will be the country's first after nearly five years of military rule.
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Suu Kyi's ambivalent position on the Rohingya has disappointed many outside Myanmar, who view her as a champion of human rights during her battle against military rule.
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A constitution drafted under military rule gives Parliament the power to choose the prime minister, including people who are not elected members of Parliament, like Mr. Prayuth.
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Case No. 173 began under military rule, lasted throughout the short presidency of Mohammed Morsi, and then was reopened under Egypt's current president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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In an address on state television, Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf, announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by presidential elections.
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The transition to democracy, given the fragmented and dark nature of Venezuela's military, will therefore never be a clean, overnight transition from military rule to civilian rule.
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And most important, following the transition from military rule to a form of democracy-lite, the military retained vast powers beyond its 25 percent stake in Parliament.
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Many have worried this time that Mr. Yameen might put pressure on the judiciary to do it again, or to use security forces to declare military rule.
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His performance has put to rest fears of turmoil in a nation that has suffered through coups, military rule and a bloody separatist movement in the south.
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When her party, the National League for Democracy, won elections in 2015 many hoped it would lead Myanmar toward greater democracy after 60 years of military rule.
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The incident cast a spotlight on the questionable involvement of soldiers in the army's commercial activities, in a country that has just emerged from direct military rule.
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But Myanmar has undergone a dramatic political transition since 2012, when its first free parliamentary election in decades ended a long and painful period of military rule.
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Removing hate Less than a decade ago, just 0.3% of Myanmar's population was connected to the internet as the nation emerged from years of isolated military rule.
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Israel's military rule over Palestinians in the occupied territories, which marked its 28500th anniversary this month, has defined and controlled every aspect of my life since birth.
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Thailand has been under military rule since a coup in 2014 unseated forces loyal to Thaksin Shinawatra, a brash billionaire who challenged the country's traditional power structure.
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The Constitution, which was drafted and came into force under military rule, does require a lofty 22017 percent of the combined houses of Parliament to pass amendments.
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Critics say PDVSA has done little to stem the fall in production since Quevedo's 2017 appointment ushered in a new era of military rule at the firm.
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The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory in elections late last year, ending more than two decades of brutal military rule.
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Guinea has around a third of the world's reserves of bauxite, used to make aluminium, although development has been hampered by years of military rule and popular unrest.
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In 1986, during the military rule of an Islamist general-turned-president, Muhammad Zia ul Haq, it became a capital offence for anyone to insult Muhammad the Prophet.
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The election result also saw Spain's Vox party gain 24 seats, making it the first far-right party to enter parliament since military rule ended in the 1970s.
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The United States and other Western countries have become more engaged with Myanmar since it began a transition to civilian government after nearly 50 years of military rule.
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A major supplier in the global drugs trade, it is riddled with ethnic conflicts and still crippled by the legacies of imperialism and 50 years of military rule.
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Nearly 80 percent are ethnic Karen from eastern Myanmar who fled armed conflict and often persecution at the hands of the Myanmar army during decades of military rule.
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Several stabilization plans aimed at reining in inflation dramatically failed, and Brazil's first democratically elected president since military rule, Fernando Collor, resigned during an impeachment trial in 1992.
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Myanmar's emergence from nearly half a century of iron-fisted military rule less than a decade ago brought glitzy malls, smart phones, fast food and Western hotel chains.
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Mr Prayuth's coup suspended the previous constitution, itself drawn up during another period of military rule following an earlier coup that also unseated a democratic government, in 2006.
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Think big: Myanmar has only just opened up to the outside world after years of secretive military rule, culminating in a visit by then-President Obama in 2012.
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"This is about a political awakening, not just an environmental effort," Panupong, 28, said of the pent-up desire for political expression after five years of military rule.
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Thailand has been under military rule since a May 2014 coup which the army said was necessary to restore order after months of pro and anti-government protests.
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The National League of Democracy, the party led by Suu Kyi, triumphed in spectacular fashion over the party of the military, ending five decades of effective military rule.
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Just a few years ago, when Myanmar was under military rule, displaying a Kachin flag, much less publicly deriding the country's president, would have meant arrest, or worse.
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Mexico has a long history of giving refuge to left-wing exiles fleeing military rule and repression in the region, a history that Ebrard nodded to on Sunday.
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Despite these well-documented atrocities, more than 30 years after the end of military rule some people in Brazil seem comfortable speaking in support of the military regime.
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The end of the Pinochet dictatorship, in 1990, came with an implicit caveat: Military rule would end, but the socialist policies of Salvador Allende, the leftist president Gen.
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The United States said the army response to the insurgent attacks was "disproportionate" and the crisis raised questions about Myanmar's transition to democracy after decades of military rule.
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Other branches of the security forces have also flexed their muscles since the return of military rule, arresting protesters or clamping down on unlicensed street vendors, activists said.
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But once the coup was attempted, people in the country, even those bitterly opposed to Mr. Erdogan, seemed to have no desire for a return to military rule.
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The 11-member panel was formed in 2012 and includes officials who served in Myanmar's junta, which during decades of military rule was routinely accused of rights abuses.
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Once the military rule ended, the witnesses who had accused Ms. Hasina recanted, claiming their stories were extracted under duress; these retractions were reported in The Daily Star.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama pledged on Wednesday to lift all remaining sanctions against Myanmar, seeking to reward the country's recent moves toward democracy after decades of brutal military rule.
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He was once the most powerful person in the country after Bashir and protesters held him responsible for the killing of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule.
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The protest leaders wanted the military to immediately hand over power to civilians; the council insisted on military rule until elections, promised to be held within nine months.
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The result was almost 20 years of authoritarian military rule and the disappearance and torture of thousands of Chileans – and the intensification of anti-Americanism in Latin America.
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Working alongside Guatemalan prosecutors, the panel has worked to strengthen institutions in the fragile democracy that emerged after decades of military rule and Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
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Context: Myanmar emerged from decades-long military rule in 2015 but has since been run by an awkward power-sharing agreement between the military and elected civilian leaders.
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Once a symbol of resistance to military rule, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is known today as an enabler of ethnic cleansing and a foe of press freedom.
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It was the latest dramatic episode in a political crisis that has gripped Thailand for more than a decade, sending an Asian democracy sliding back to military rule.
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The continuing violence has fanned criticism of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her struggle against military rule.
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Yet in the eyes of the world, India maintained its exceptional status for decades, as many promising postcolonial experiments with democracy degenerated into authoritarianism, if not military rule.
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The president was making an annual speech to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the nation's liberation from Japanese military rule that began in 1910 and ended in 1945.
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Experts say that Mr. Bouteflika is a front for military rule, one reason there is skepticism over whether a government investigation will provide any answers about the crash.
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Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 190 million, has been ruled by the military for almost half its history and has repeatedly swung between democracy and military rule.
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Some have compared the crackdown to martial law — a sensitive subject in the Philippines, where the years of military rule under the dictator Ferdinand Marcos are still remembered.
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But the younger generation was not interested, he told a reporter in 2010, around the time that a half-century of repressive military rule was beginning to ease.
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But left-wing political parties have promised protests on Thursday, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the coup on March 24, 1976, that installed right-wing military rule.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Protesters stood behind a brick barricade in downtown Khartoum last week and did what they've done for almost two months: demand an end to Sudan's military rule.
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That played no small part in Mr Jonathan's defeat at the ballot box in 2015, the first by an incumbent president since the end of military rule in 1999.
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Analysts say the presidential election pitting President Muhammadu Buhari against businessman and former vice president Atiku Abubakar will be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule in 1999.
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When Mr Kerry visited she had just taken office as Myanmar's de facto leader; the transition from military rule to civilian had started to look irreversible, if still incomplete.
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Ms Rousseff looks likely to follow in the ignominious footsteps of Fernando Collor, the country's first directly elected president after two decades of military rule ended in the mid1980s.
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But since 21976, when the country returned to democracy after 290 years of civil war, military rule, and destabilizing coups, Nollywood has seen explosive growth and increasing international visibility.
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Residents across Benghazi struggle with deteriorating living conditions and critics are alarmed at the spread of military rule in the city where the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began.
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"The groups that benefited from military rule, they don't like the political class that share this power," Haqqani said, adding some of the military and their offspring feel marginalized.
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At least 2,000 people calling for an end to the autocratic military rule of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have been arrested since protests started on September 20.
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The treatment of the roughly one million Rohingya in Myanmar has emerged as the country's most contentious human rights issue as it transitions from decades of harsh military rule.
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The big picture: Myanmar had only just opened up to the outside world after years of secretive military rule, culminating in a visit by then-President Obama in 2012.
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Wirathu is the most prominent of Myanmar's hard-line nationalist monks, who have emerged as a political force since the country's transition from full military rule began in 2011.
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In Buenos Aires, Obama announced an agreement in which the United States would declassify secret military and intelligence documents about the 1976 coup that installed right-wing military rule.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Duterte warned that he might impose military rule over the rest of the country, citing the possibility that terrorists could begin operations in the northern Philippines.
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Like much else in the country, which is still emerging from decades of isolation under military rule, the Circle Line is a functioning, if fading, piece of the past.
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Direct military rule officially ended in Thailand in July, although the new civilian administration is led by the former army chief who overthrew the previous elected government in 2014.
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Administration officials have been nervous about punishing Myanmar's government because they worry that broader sanctions could jeopardize the country's fragile transition to democracy after decades of repressive military rule.
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Gosh was once seen as the most powerful person in the country after Bashir and protesters held him responsible for the killing of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule.
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U Ko Ni's political advocacy predated the lifting of military rule in Myanmar in 2010 and he was a prominent critic of the army's containing political role in the country.
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His death closes a brutal chapter in Argentina's history, during which rights groups say military rule was responsible for "disappearing" - a euphemism for kidnapping and murdering opponents - some 30,20003 people.
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Standing before bare shelves that he says are becoming harder to restock, Mabhena told BuzzFeed News that his hope for peace was coupled with a hope anything but military rule.
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While there, Suu Kyi, whose administration has no control over the security forces under a constitution drafted during military rule, discussed the Rohingya crisis with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Now, with tension in the streets and negotiations deadlocked, the next few days could decide whether Sudan transitions peacefully to democracy, or backslides into military rule and open armed conflict.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prestigious Chulalongkorn University has removed the head of its student council, a vocal critic of military rule, after he was accused of disrupting a royalist initiation ceremony.
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No group has claimed responsibility for several small blasts in Bangkok in recent months, but they have fueled speculation that opponents of military rule are making a show of defiance.
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The escalation in hostilities in Myanmar's fractured north is another setback for civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's bid to bring peace amid a stuttering transition from full military rule.
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It may be repeated in Brazil, where the front-runner to win the presidency in October is Jair Bolsonaro, who speaks viciously about gay people but warmly of military rule.
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The treatment of the roughly one million Muslim Rohingya has emerged as majority Buddhist Myanmar's most contentious rights issue as it makes a transition from decades of harsh military rule.
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After decades of military rule and economic stagnation, much of Myanmar's population came to smartphones and the internet after 2015, at a time when Facebook was already popular in Asia.
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The disagreement heightened tensions in the Southeast Asian country's transition from military rule, in which pro-army and royalist parities have portrayed their opponents as a threat to the monarchy.
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Some 90% of public spending is protected from cuts, partly by the constitution which, in 1988, celebrated the end of military rule by enshrining generous job protection and state benefits.
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A recent opinion poll showed the Temer administration's approval rating has sunk to 5 percent, making it Brazil's most unpopular government since the end of military rule three decades ago.
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He was once seen as the most powerful person in the country after Bashir and protesters held him responsible for the killing of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule.
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The percentage of people who say that living in a democracy is "essential" has declined, and polls show rising support for nondemocratic forms of government, from technocracy to military rule.
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The vote will be the first major test of the military's standing with the public, as much a referendum on the legitimacy of military rule as on the draft constitution.
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These lessons have put them ahead of most people in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, whose first civilian government took office in March after half a century of military rule.
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She was born into a conservative Catholic family in Chile in 1967, and grew up during Augusto Pinochet's murderous, 17-year military rule (18–1990), studying typography and graphic design.
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Foreign direct investment has fallen 30 percent from the previous year to $6.6 billion in 2016/17 due to sluggish progress on retooling the economy after decades of military rule.
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"Those who peacefully challenge military rule, including journalists and human rights defenders, face harassment, intimidation, threats, and arbitrary detention," said Andrea Giorgetta, Director of Asia Desk, Southeast Asia at FIDH.
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But administration officials continued to rule out broader sanctions against Myanmar's government because they said it could jeopardize the country's delicate transition to democracy after decades of repressive military rule.
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When the country emerged from two decades of military rule in 773, the population celebrated the end of a regime that had killed or disappeared 434 people and tortured thousands.
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But, while Myanmar is much freer since the end of military rule, her acquiescence to repressive measures against free expression is another indication that she is part of the problem.
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In 2012 the Cornell physics professor and documentarian Robert H. Lieberman directed "They Call It Myanmar," an impressive portrait of that country as it struggled to emerge from military rule.
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In her testimony before the Senate on Monday, Dilma likened her situation to that of João Goulart, ousted in the 1964 coup that ushered in two decades of military rule.
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The treatment of approximately 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya has emerged as majority Buddhist Myanmar's most contentious human rights issue as it makes a transition from decades of harsh military rule.
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Meant to legitimize rather than supplant military rule — which the White House saw as "essential to United States' interests" — the 1967 election nonetheless roused Saigon's long-suppressed cynical civilian opposition.
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The violence that began in August and the refugee crisis it caused has drawn international condemnation and raised doubts about Myanmar's transition to democracy after nearly 50 years of military rule.
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Plush pensions have their origins in the constitution adopted in 1988, which sought to confer as many rights as possible on Brazilians who had suffered under two decades of military rule.
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Suu Kyi, who came to power last year amid a transition from military rule, leads Myanmar through the specially created position of "State Counsellor", but is also minister of foreign affairs.
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Duterte placed restive Mindanao, which has a population of 22 million, under military rule after the attack on Marawi, and martial law was due to be lifted there on Dec. 31.
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Mr Bolsonaro, who has spoken of his nostalgia for military rule, has eight generals in his cabinet of 22; AMLO is weakening competing centres of power, such as elected state governors.
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Ex-Prime Minister and current leader of the Democrat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva told CNBC that Thai voters' support for military rule was part of a trend of disenchantment with traditional politics.
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Relations between the armed forces and Suu Kyi will define the success of Myanmar's emergence from decades of isolation and military rule that began when the army seized power in 1962.
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Supporters hope that within the constraints imposed by the legacy of military rule, Suu Kyi's NLD will succeed in improving human rights in a country that has long stifled personal freedoms.
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Wirathu is infamous as a proponent of anti-Muslim rhetoric that has spread as Myanmar has transitioned from full military rule and as social media sites like Facebook have become popular.
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However, Japanese investments in Thailand nosedived by 81 percent last year, according to official data, something analysts say mirrors concern about Thailand's economy which continues to struggle under prolonged military rule.
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In striving to be the next Itamar Franco he could suffer the fate of José Sarney, a vice-president who was unexpectedly promoted in 1985 after the end of military rule.
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The most divisive election since the end of Brazil's military rule three decades ago has become increasingly polarized between right and left, raising concerns about the future of the country's democracy.
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Three years later, during an actual coup attempt, I scanned the Twitter feeds of many of the dissidents who took part in the protests and found strong opposition to military rule.
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More than 500,000 people were at the protest in São Paulo, according to the Datafolha polling company, ranking it among the largest since the end of military rule in the 1980s.
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During the later years of military rule, he became a senior customs official, and later a businessman with ventures in port oil and gas logistics as well as a private university.
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Divisions between leftists and Islamists in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 also helped set the stage for the country's return to military rule in mid-2013.
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Bolsonaro counts as a personal hero Colonel Carlos Brilhante Ustra, who was found by Brazil's National Truth Commission to have supervised the torture of more than 500 people during military rule.
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The United States and other Western countries have become more engaged with Myanmar in recent years, since it began a transition to civilian government after nearly 50 years of military rule.
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Although a National Truth Commission reported that an estimated 8,000 indigenous people and at least 434 political dissidents were killed during the period of military rule, no one was held accountable.
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Second, a military strategy manufactured to undermine Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's standing at home and abroad, and to pave the way for a return to a form of military rule.
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The Thai monarchy has never been a powerful or outspoken champion of democracy, but many Thais believed the king's late father, Bhumibol Adulyadej, tried to soften the harshness of military rule.
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When the U.S. instituted a civilian colonial authority over the Philippines, Mindanao was put under military rule and subjected to a campaign of pacification which resulted in many thousands of deaths.
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The Constitutional Court found Thanathorn guilty of holding shares in a media company on the date his candidacy was registered for the election to formally end five years of military rule.
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Under the era of military rule, the Brazilian government regarded indigenous communities as impediments to the development of areas that were rich in minerals or that could be turned into farmland.
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Mr. Abubakar, a former vice president, and Mr. Buhari, a former general who was in power under military rule in the 1980s, are establishment candidates who are both in their 70s.
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The prosperous examples of America, Europe, East Asia's tiger economies and a Latin America abandoning military rule, along with a lack of alternatives, would bring the rest of the world on board.
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Venezuela's crude output fell in 2019 to its lowest in almost 75 years due to lack of investment, a brain drain that has accelerated under PDVSA's military rule, mismanagement and U.S. sanctions.
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Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on Tuesday, and said he would keep it that way for a year if necessary.
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Later, Bhadmus explained that the men were "free readers"; in a tradition dating back to military rule, free readers crowd around newsstands all over Lagos, reading the news and chatting about it.
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Venezuela offers a case study in how by politicizing the law, the regime -- incompetent in every other respect -- managed to seize control of the country without the need to impose military rule.
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The escalation in hostilities in Myanmar's fractured north is another setback for civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's bid bring peace to the country amid a stuttering transition from full military rule.
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Duterte is notorious for comments often deemed offensive and intended the remark as a joke, reiterating that only he would be liable for any backlash over military rule on southern Mindanao island.
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For the first time, as of next year political power will not be wielded solely by the two major coalitions that have governed Chile since the end of military rule in 1990.
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The late Wednesday vote followed a general election on March 24, the first since Prayuth's 2014 coup, when he ousted an elected government and ushered in a phase of strict military rule.
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It is run by Win Tin's former colleagues and counts among its patrons Tin Oo, one of the senior-most figures in the movement against military rule and a senior NLD member.
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After a period of exile in the United States, Kim Jong-pil returned to South Korean politics in the late 1980s, as military rule was nearing its end amid huge street demonstrations.
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During the era of military rule, Mr. Prabowo commanded the feared special forces, known as Kopassus, and ordered the kidnapping of student activists in a failed effort to keep Suharto in power.
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As Latin American countries changed from authoritarian and military rule to democracy, their new leaders and our government understood that creating fair, transparent judicial systems would be essential for sustaining true democracy.
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The orders were just the latest moves to clip the group's wings amid fears that it could further destabilize a newly democratic country struggling to shake off the vestiges of military rule.
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The announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the Trump administration's vote of confidence in a new Sudanese civilian-led government installed in August after a sweeping revolution ended military rule.
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Tamar Herman, a Billboard journalist who has covered K-pop and the East Asian entertainment business, said the group and their fans are generally aligned and in support of the military rule.
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In my studies, I showed that citizens now give less importance to living in a democracy than they once did, and that they are more open to authoritarian alternatives like military rule.
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But the Israeli-controlled industrial and commercial zones of the West Bank are often held up by Israel supporters as evidence that military rule over the West Bank can benefit the Palestinians.
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Israel first took over the West Bank and eastern parts of Jerusalem after winning the Six-Day War in 1967, and has administered military rule over Palestinians in those areas ever since.
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Israel first took over the West Bank and eastern parts of Jerusalem after winning the Six-Day War in 383, and has administered military rule over Palestinians in those areas ever since.
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The monk is the best-known proponent of anti-Muslim rhetoric that has spread as Myanmar has transitioned from full military rule and as social media sites like Facebook have become popular.
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The so-called People Power Revolution three decades ago attracted government leaders, church groups and civilians in a series of protests that ended Marcos' 14-year military rule marred by human rights violations.
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In Sudan, Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf announced the end of Bashir's rule, saying the country would enter a two-year period of military rule to be followed by presidential elections.
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A worrying 22006% thought that military rule would be fine, and 220% liked the idea of "a strong leader" who "can make decisions without interference from parliament or the courts" (see chart 261).
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But "there are elements within the junta which want to turn back the clock" and impose military rule "based on coercion not consent", says Murithi Mutiga of the International Crisis Group, a watchdog.
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In Myanmar, on a fragile path of democratisation after nearly half a century of military rule, the power of the forces that filled that void—nationalism and religion—is only now becoming clear.
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One big reason why so many superstitions hold such sway in 21 st-century Myanmar is the more than five decades of repressive military rule that only ended (nominally at least) in 2016.
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The opposition's fraud accusations have heightened tensions in the region's most populous nation and biggest oil producer where six decades of independence have seen long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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U.S. Ambassador Joseph Yun's trip to Myanmar underlined continuing U.S. worries over North Korean links that date back to Myanmar's decades of military rule, according to a senior State Department official on Friday.
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"It suggests Aung San Suu Kyi's government is serious about reform and could help turn the page on the ruthless military rule, cronyism and human rights abuses of the recent past," Kubba said.
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They used the protesters to get rid of Hosni Mubarak, then the Muslim Brotherhood to sideline liberals, and finally exploited liberal protesters to get rid of the Brothers and introduce direct military rule.
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Duterte placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on Tuesday, after a fierce bout of fighting erupted during a raid by security forces at a hideout of Islamic State-linked militants.
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Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by two million Palestinians.
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An annual climate risk index by Germanwatch, a green research group, ranked Myanmar - which suffered decades of military rule - second among the 22 countries worst-affected by extreme weather from 2300 to 21.
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The United States did not impose sanctions during the 2006 military coup that ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, so another period of overlooking temporary military rule for democratic reform is in order.
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ANA had agreed to take a 49 percent stake in the airline, which would have focused on international routes, in anticipation of growing demand as Myanmar opens up following decades of military rule.
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BANGKOK — Amid monsoon downpours, pro-democracy demonstrators sang and danced at a police barricade in Bangkok on Tuesday, marking the fourth anniversary of an army coup that again plunged Thailand into military rule.
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On Wednesday, he raised the prospect that Islamic State-linked rebels could gain a foothold in the northern Philippines and warned that he might impose military rule over the rest of the country.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has inherited an intractable-seeming problem after decades of military rule, and its specifics need to be understood if the Rohingya stand any chance of being helped effectively.
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While Erdogan is democratically elected and most Turks prefer him to military rule, he has also placed his supporters into key positions of power while ridding himself of "any form of opposition," Haykel said.
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There appears to be little U.S. appetite, though, for re-imposing broad economic sanctions lifted by former President Barack Obama as the country shifted from decades of direct military rule toward a democratic transition.
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The generals running Sudan since the fall in April of its dictator, Omar al-Bashir, reached a power-sharing accord with the pro-democracy movement that has been demanding an end to military rule.
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Many of the ruling party's members themselves spent years in jail as political prisoners during their decades of struggle against military rule, while Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest for some 15 years.
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But with the country under military rule, the king's stabilizing force gone and successor Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn failing to command the same devotion as his father, there are many uncertainties in Thailand's outlook.
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The four groups make up the Northern Alliance, and are among the many Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) that exist in Myanmar, which was under military rule until elections in 202 partially opened the country.
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But his nostalgia for the days of military rule has alarmed many Brazilians, and according to the Washington Post, Bolsonaro has appointed seven former military officers to cabinet posts, the most since the dictatorship.
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Tamimi has become an international symbol of resistance to Israel&aposs half century-old military rule over Palestinians In Israel, where she is seen as a troublemaker or threat to the military&aposs deterrence.
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The rescue, carried out successfully against high odds, was a rare moment of uplifting news from Thailand, which has been mired in political conflict and heavy-handed military rule for more than a decade.
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"It is also driving up the risks that the country's five-year-old transition from military rule will stumble, that Rohingya communities will be radicalised, and that regional stability will be weakened," it said.
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Their followers rub shoulders in the narrow, numbered alleys that slice up Yangon, which to an outsider feels like a multi-cultural Asian city on the make after decades sealed off under military rule.
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This means that parliamentary elections scheduled for next year can only produce a weak and fragmented legislature, leaving Thailand's increasingly repressive generals at the controls while creating the illusion that military rule has ended.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha formally resigned as the head of the military government on Monday, saying the country would function as a normal democracy after five years of military rule.
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Criticism of the royal family and royal institution is a serious offense in Thailand, and the number of such lèse-majesté cases has multiplied since the country returned to military rule three years ago.
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Mr. Prayuth, a former general who held the title of prime minister during the years of military rule, won by a combined vote of 500 to 244 in the House of Representatives and Senate.
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Mr. Suazo Córdova was the first civilian president of Honduras after nearly a decade of military rule in a Central American country that had been dominated by the military through most of its history.
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Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in coastal enclave inhabited by two million Palestinians.
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The Philippines: President Rodrigo Duterte announced that military rule in the southern Philippines would soon end, two and a half years after he imposed it in response to a rebellion by Islamic State militants.
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Myanmar's junta handed power to a semi-civilian government made up of ex-generals in 2011, after nearly 50 years of military rule, but the constitution it drafted left the military with considerable power.
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Last week, Thanathorn accused the government of unfairly targeting him and the party with legal tactics that undermined democracy in Thailand which, after the 2014 coup, was under military rule until the March election.
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Rights groups and opposition politicians have criticized Mr. Duterte's request to extend martial law, warning that the authoritarian president was setting the stage for an eventual declaration of military rule across the entire country.
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Observers said this was a throwback to outright military rule and times when opposition politicians were accused of stealing cattle or a bomb was discovered in the home of the dissident poet Ustad Daman.
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Observers said this was a throwback to outright military rule and times when opposition politicians were accused of stealing cattle or a bomb was discovered in the home of the dissident poet Ustad Daman.
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The May 22 attack at the Phramongkutklao Hospital, in central Bangkok, came on the third anniversary of the army's seizure of power, and the army initially blamed the bombing on groups opposed to military rule.
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Western trade and investment in Myanmar is small, but there were hopes that a series of reforms this year would prise open an economy stunted by international sanctions and decades of mismanagement under military rule.
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Military rule might "return by the ballot", meaning through the generals that he plans to appoint to his cabinet if he is elected, he told reporters at an evangelical "march for Jesus" on May 9003st.
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He told CNBC that's because processes that were stalled during the period of military rule, such as trade deal talks with the European Union, are expected to resume after a democratically elected government takes office.
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Sunday's general election has been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics say a new army-backed constitution gives junta-appointed officials a large say in the next government.
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The center-right president was elected late in 2017 with 54.47% of the vote but now has an approval rating of just 14%, the lowest since the 1973-1990 military rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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State media PNA reported that a joint session of Congress approved, 240-27, President Rodrigo Duterte's request to extend military rule on the island, which has a sizable Muslim population, until the end of 2018.
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A vibrant domestic media has flourished since Myanmar eased media restrictions in 2012 as it began a transition from decades of military rule, but reporters can face intimidation or legal threats for covering touchy subjects.
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Supporters of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and urban dwellers "are significantly more likely" to support military rule than backers of the opposition Congress party and rural residents, the Pew Research Center survey showed.
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A 1932 revolution in Thailand ended absolute monarchic rule, though kings are still highly revered and have played a unifying role in a country plagued by political instability, cycling between elected governments and military rule.
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Duterte placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on May 23, hours after hundreds of pro-Islamic State militants seized control of the predominantly Muslim town of Marawi, which is on the island.
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The new president will replace U Thein Sein, a former general who oversaw a gradual reduction in military control and the increasing democratization of Myanmar, also known as Burma, after decades of outright military rule.
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Jair Bolsonaro, the leader of Brazil's right-wing populist movement, once told a female legislator she was unworthy of rape and praised the man who oversaw torture during the country's two decades of military rule.
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There have been press crackdowns in Turkey before, especially during periods of military rule, and even Mr. Erdogan and his government have used press laws and intimidation against journalists on a large scale since 2012.
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Under military rule until 1966, Arab citizens — described by Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as a potential "enemy within" — were a captive political audience, their lawmakers confined to satellites of Jewish political parties.
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But the film casts a shadow forward in time, into the darkness of Chile's later, bloodier period of military rule, and beyond that into the political uncertainties of the present, in Latin America and elsewhere.
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Among his supporters is a new far-right party, Cabildo Abierto, led by a former military leader, a jarring development for Uruguayans who have bleak memories of despotic military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, who led Nigeria under military rule in the 1980s, has promised to continue a crackdown on corruption that helped him gain office in 2015, the country's first peaceful democratic transfer of power.
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The country has been under direct military rule for nearly five years since then-army chief Prayuth overthrew an elected government linked to populist Thaksin, who himself was thrown out by the army in 2006.
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YANGON (Reuters) - About 100 Myanmar journalists gathered signatures on Friday for a petition denouncing the recent arrests of four reporters that raised concern about the freedom of the media despite a transition from full military rule.
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In Brazil's most bitterly polarized election since the end of military rule in 1985, Bolsonaro's stabbing by a mentally disturbed man has been the most prominent in a string of violent acts hanging over the race.
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The plight of Myanmar's Muslims has raised questions about the democracy champion's commitment to human rights and represents a politically sensitive issue for her after the end of decades of repressive military rule exposed communal tensions.
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Murphy said later, after talks with government leaders, that Washington was alarmed by reports of rights abuses and called on authorities to stop the violence, which raised concern about Myanmar's transition from military rule to democracy.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Bure'e Mahjoub still hopes democracy will prevail over military rule in Sudan despite the bullet wounds he sustained in a raid on a protest camp that signaled another Arab uprising was facing the end.
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Facebook has 20 million users in Myanmar — nearly all of the country's internet users — who started using the social network after the country opened up partially in 2015 by holding elections after years of military rule.
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Brazil appears poised to elect Jair Bolsonaro — a longtime backbencher who has spoken fondly of military rule and was best known until recently for his penchant for racist, sexist and homophobic comments — as its next president.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military-government is hoping big-ticket investment projects will spur Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, which has struggled after more than two years of military rule, with exports and domestic demand persistently weak.
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Her mother filmed the incident and posted it on Facebook, where it went viral and, for many, instantly turned Ahed into a symbol of resistance to Israel&aposs half-century-old military rule over the Palestinians.
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After independence Ghana went through a cycle of military and civilian leaders, that wreaked havoc on its economy, and only finally transitioned away from military rule in 1992 by electing Jerry Rawlings, the former military leader.
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It's "quite likely" that Thailand's next government will be formed through a coalition, a senior government official told CNBC on Monday, as initial tallies came following Sunday's long-awaited election after five years of military rule.
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Thailand has been under direct military rule since then-army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha overthrew an elected government linked to exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who himself was thrown out by the army in 2006.
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Increased competition saw the cost of a SIM card, which was once $200 or upwards of $1,500 during military rule, drop to below $5 prompting the country's 55 million population to move to mobile en masse.
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We welcomed a new era for the Americas marked by President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba ("Habana, Yo no te pido") and remembered military rule in another of his destinations, Argentina ("Solo le pido a dios").
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Whereas the first gives him powers such as instructing the army to supervise the production and distribution of food, the second would give him the ability to impose something closer to military rule across the country.
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential campaign, already the most divisive since the end of military rule three decades ago, is growing increasingly polarized each day and raising concerns about the future of the country's democracy.
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I hoped Libya could escape its cycle of violence by drafting a new constitution and holding new elections, ultimately proving that it could build democratic institutions, as Tunisia did, without plunging into autocracy and military rule.
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Pakistan is preparing for its second democratic transition after military rule, but a number of terrorist attacks targeting candidates and a growing sense of political unrest and turmoil threaten to undermine the credibility of the election.
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Founded in the 1970s while Brazil was under military rule, it became a hub for artists and intellectuals who pushed the boundaries of criticism during an era in which the press and speech were heavily censored.
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The Interpreter YANGON, Myanmar — Nearly a decade into Myanmar's transition out of military rule, the country's once-celebrated transition toward democracy is hardening into something very different from what activists and world leaders had hoped for.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her long struggle against military rule, has come under increasing international criticism for the plight of the Rohingya.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of students and supporters held a protest in Bangkok on Saturday against a court decision dissolving Thailand's second largest opposition party, less than a year after an election that ended direct military rule.
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Just as many had feared, Sudan fell under military rule when Ibrahim Abboud, then-commander in chief of the army, took over the country's democratically elected government in 1958 and became Sudan's first post-independence president.
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Haftar, a divisive one-time Gaddafi ally, launched "Operation Dignity" against Islamist militants who had carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations in Benghazi, though he has also fought former rebels opposed to military rule.
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The legal action had sparked fears over curbs on free speech during Myanmar's transition from decades of military rule, under a government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, following a landmark 2015 election win.
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Duterte placed the restive region of 22 million people under military rule on May 23 after Islamist militants took over parts of the southern Marawi City in what was the Philippines' biggest security crisis in years.
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But the 2008 constitution, drafted during military rule, guarantees the army a quarter of seats and change to the charter needs a vote of more than 75 percent of members, giving the army an effective veto.
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He said the LNA had intervened at popular request because "the council was internally split and not offering anything for citizens", seeking to manage the situation until the liberation of Benghazi, "not a return to military rule".
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A new chief of Thailand's army took command on Friday, a staunchly royalist general who will oversee a return to barracks to make way for a civilian government after nearly five years of military rule.
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Many Thais remember him as the prime minister who served as the bridge between decades of military rule and a period of democratisation that came after he handed over power eight years later to an elected leader.
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YANGON (Reuters) - The abrupt cancellation of the screening of a film critical of Myanmar's military has exposed sensitivities over portrayal of the army as the country deals with the legacy of 49 years of harsh military rule.
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The reporters' convictions were heavily criticized by press freedom advocates and Western diplomats, putting additional pressure on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who took power in 2016 amid a transition from military rule.
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Relations between Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the armed forces, and Suu Kyi will define the success of Myanmar's emergence from decades of isolation and military rule that began when the army seized power in 1962.
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Their battle is an illustration of land rights disputes engulfing Kachin state and the whole country, a largely agrarian nation emerging from decades of military rule where rights are fragile and victims of injustice have little recourse.
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Egypt's struggle with democracy, Islam and military rule plays out in one corner, while the main event has become the increasingly open antagonism between Saudi Arabia and Iran, each backing allies around the region to deeper division.
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Many Thais remember him as the prime minister who served as the bridge between decades of military rule and a period of democratization that came after he handed over power eight years later to an elected leader.
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The junta hopes the new policies targeting industrial clusters and value-added sectors will draw foreign investors back to Thailand, which has been under military rule since a coup in May 2014 ended months of street protests.
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The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld as constitutional President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of 60 days of military rule on a southern island, a ruling that would reinforce unity in the fight against militancy, his spokesman said.
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Most experts say she will most likely be convicted by a required two-thirds majority, making her the second Brazilian president to be ousted since democracy was re-established in 1985, after two decades of military rule.
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For his presidential run, Bolsonaro chose a retired military general as his running mate who's also made disconcerting statements about military power, including that the return of military rule in Brazil could be justified under some circumstances.
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Despite pressure from human rights monitors and Western diplomats, the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which took power amid high hopes for democratic reform in 2016, after decades of hardline military rule, has retained the law.
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The criticism by General Apirat Kongsompong came less than three months after direct military rule officially ended in Thailand, although the new civilian administration is led by the former army chief who overthrew the previous elected government.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 2.2 million children living in remote, conflict-hit parts of Myanmar could be left behind as the country rapidly develops following decades of military rule, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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The polls were the first since the military took power in a coup in 2014 and were embraced by many, especially younger voters, as a chance to restore democracy to Thailand after five years of military rule.
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The United States said earlier the army response to the insurgent attacks was "disproportionate" and the crisis raised questions about Myanmar's transition, under the leadership of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, after decades of military rule.
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His rise reflects widespread hatred of the PT and a popular demand for change, economic renewal and security in the face of a failing political system, economic slump and a crime wave—but not necessarily for military rule.
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Suu Kyi has identified economic reform as a key goal to complete Myanmar's democratic transition after decades of isolation under military rule, but the sluggish pace of change has disappointed many in one of the region's poorest countries.
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The big picture: Throwing out the conciliatory political playbook that winning presidential candidates have used since the country's 1985 transition from military rule, Bolsonaro won for a simple reason: He credibly promised to turn Brazilian politics upside down.
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The DVB and the Irrawaddy, which operate in English and Burmese, were formed in exile during military rule but have both set up bureaus in the city of Yangon since pre-publication censorship was officially abolished in 2012.
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In the most polarized election since the end of military rule in 1985, Bolsonaro is backed by a group of retired officers like Mourão who have criticized Workers Party governments and publicly advocate military intervention if corruption continues.
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The violence and the refugee exodus is the biggest crisis that the government of Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi has faced since it came to power last year in a transition from nearly 50 years of military rule.
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Critics of Duterte, who has held open the possibility of extending military rule to the whole country, have slammed the imposition of martial law in Mindanao as a misuse of power and evidence of the president's authoritarian tendencies.
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Daniel Slater of the University of Michigan points out that during that period not a single regime met even minimally democratic standards, excepting Thailand's brief flirtation with democracy in 1973-76, which soon gave way to military rule.
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Reporting on the Pushtun Protection Movement, a tribal protest group that criticises human-rights abuses by the army, has been banned in print and on TV. "It is worse now than under direct military rule," adds Mr Solangi.
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It is unclear when a winner will be declared but the vote pitting incumbent Muhammadu Buhari against businessman and ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar is expected to be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule in 1999.
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In his final opinion on the case, the prosecutor said the army action, which did not result in any direct military rule, constituted a real coup attempt and could not be defined as "post-modern", broadcaster NTV reported.
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The PMDB, a party with no fixed ideology, has been in power ever since Brazil restored democracy in 1985 after two decades of military rule, either in the government or controlling one of the two house of Congress.
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If you look at the track record of other countries in Asia, we see similar trends: an early constitution after military rule still embeds the military in the government apparatus but over time, there's dissolution of that power.
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It was unclear when a winner would be declared but the vote pitting President Muhammadu Buhari against businessman and ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar was expected to be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule in 1999.
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As parts of the media and academia decry what they say is an unprecedented crackdown, Umit, 55, a former Communist activist who was tortured during military rule, offers a blistering critique of modern Turkey through a fictional lens.
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The former prosecutor has threatened several times to invoke military rule to help his war on drugs and said he had the power to declare martial law, even though narcotics did not meet conditions required by the constitution.
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"It's not 30 pesos, it's 30 years" has become one of the slogans of the protests — a reference to the proposed metro fare increase that set off the crisis and to the three decades since military rule ended.
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That, they ruled, disqualified him under a clause in the constitution, inserted during one of Pakistan's several periods of military rule, that insists that leaders uphold Islamic virtues and be "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate, honest and upright".
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Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former darling of the human rights community for her years under house arrest while opposing military rule, has recently been under international pressure over her army's alleged genocide of the Rohingya Muslims.
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Last week Buhari, who is seeking re-election in 2019, changed the date of Nigeria's Democracy Day, a day that marks the transition of military rule to a democracy, from May 29 to June 12 to honor Abiola.
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During a May speech to troops in Mindanao — a region placed under martial law amid militant activities — Duterte said he would take full responsibility for potential crimes committed by soldiers during the period of military rule, including rape.
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Congress also impeached Johnson on political grounds and withdrew the court's jurisdiction over a constitutional challenge to a prosecution before a military commission and, more generally, to the federal law that provided for military rule in the South.
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Either Israel would feel compelled to retake Palestinian cities and institute direct military rule over the West Bank or Israel would withdraw completely — perhaps even leading it to seal off the West Bank as it did with Gaza.
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After Egypt's generals overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, I started attending and live-tweeting the huge sit-in in Cairo protesting the restoration of military rule, just 30 months after Egyptians had risen up against it.
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On Monday, Mr. al-Hussein called such accusations a "complete denial of reality" that was damaging the international standing of a leadership that had benefited from considerable good will as the country emerged from decades of military rule.
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The festival marks both the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration — when Japan did away with the military rule of the shoguns and consolidated power under an emperor — and 160 years since France and Japan established diplomatic relations.
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President Sebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and ordered the armed forces to restore order — measures that were jarring for Chileans who lived through a repressive period of military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The jockeying takes into account a principle that has been in place since the 1999 end of military rule: the informal agreement that the presidency rotate after every two terms between the overwhelmingly Muslim north and Christian south.
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An occasional contributor to The New York Times and other foreign publications, Mr. Swe Win served seven years in prison for taking part in a 1998 demonstration that protested military rule and backed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Conde's first election victory in 2010 raised hopes for democratic progress in the former French colony after two years of military rule and nearly a quarter of a century under authoritarian President Lansana Conte, who died in 2008.
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Conde's first election win in 2010 ended two years of military rule and raised hopes for democratic progress in Guinea, which was governed by President Lansana Conte for nearly a quarter of century until his death in 2008.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that he may declare martial law throughout the Philippines to deal with the threat of Islamist militancy, making the remarks one day after he imposed military rule on a southern island.
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The unrest has exposed the dark side of Myanmar's historic opening: an unleashing of ethnic hatred that was suppressed during 49 years of strict military rule that ended when the generals stepped back from direct rule in 2011.
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Thailand will head to the polls Sunday for the first elections since a military coup in 27, with the ballot widely considered to be a vote between a return to democracy and legitimized military rule.
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While South Korea was under military rule, Korean citizens were forced to stifle their outrage; but with the assassination of Park Chung-hee in 1979 and the onset of democracy in the late 703s, they found their voice.
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Some activists say the Nobel laureate, who leads a civilian administration that took power in 2016 as part of a transition after decades of harsh military rule, could legislate or at least speak out against curbs on dissent.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha on Tuesday ordered an end to military rule before his new civilian government is sworn in, but kept the power to let security forces carry out searches and arrests unchallenged.
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For his presidential run, Bolsonaro chose as his running mate a retired military general who has also made disconcerting statements about military power, including that the return of military rule in Brazil could be justified under some circumstances.
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Read more: The US military is getting ready to fight underground — here are 10 things it'll need for subterranean combat "Pakistan has seen four bouts of military rule after the British gave India and Pakistan independence," said Mir.
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That he considers Bolsonaro, who has made numerous homophobic and sexist remarks and spoken fondly of military rule, an ally in the fight to "advance the rule of law and increase security and prosperity" is likely to garner attention.
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Trade sanctions would end an economic opening granted to support Myanmar's transition to democracy after Suu Kyi emerged from 15 years of house arrest under military rule and led her party to take both the parliament and the presidency.
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Tension between Myanmar's majority Buddhists and the Rohingya, most of whom are denied citizenship, has exploded several times over the past few years as old enmities, and Buddhist nationalism, surfaced with the end of decades of harsh military rule.
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Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey published to mark World Press Freedom Day.
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In the most polarized election since the end of military rule in 1985, Bolsonaro is backed by a group of retired generals who have criticized the PT governments from 2003-2016 and publicly advocate military intervention if corruption continues.
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Animosity between Buddhists in Rakhine state and the Rohingya goes back generations, but has seethed in recent years, fueled in part by a surge of Buddhist nationalism since nearly five decades of strict military rule came to an end.
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The election is seen as a battle between voters who want junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha to retain the premiership and political parties, including the populist forces backed by Thaksin, that want to see the end of military rule.
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Relations between the armed forces and Suu Kyi will define the success or otherwise of Myanmar's most significant break from military rule since the army seized power in 1962, even though the constitution bars her from taking the presidency.
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Now, seven years on, vast swathes of the oil crescent, the country's economic heartland, and eastern Libya are controlled by a man who does not believe in democracy or freedom, but in his own military rule at any cost.
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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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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar on Tuesday, after the administration assured lawmakers it would not rush to ease sanctions as the country moves from decades of military rule.
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The telecommunications law was a main piece of legislation introduced by a semi-civilian administration of former generals which navigated Myanmar's transition from full military rule to the coming to power of Suu Kyi's government, from 2011 to 2016.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's media was widely seen as among the region's most vibrant after military rule ended in 2008, but a dozen newspaper and TV journalists say the industry is now in disarray because of intimidation and army pressure.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, above, was once hailed as a beacon of hope who would steer the country away from decades of military rule and into a stable democracy.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, above, Myanmar's civilian leader and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was once hailed as a beacon of hope who would steer the country away from decades of military rule and into a stable democracy.
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The seizure, which took place while Mr. Duterte and his top security officials were visiting Russia, prompted the president to cut short the trip and place the island of Mindanao — the second largest in the Philippines — under military rule.
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The United States shifted its stance in part to raise pressure on Myanmar's military and civilian leaders, who have shared power for the past two years under an uneasy arrangement after decades of military rule, to address the crisis.
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The conflict in the north of Myanmar has escalated over the past month and the latest attack marks a further setback for civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's stated priority of achieving peace amid a stuttering transition from full military rule.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar is training up hundreds of midwives in an effort to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth, one of many social policy reforms launched by the country as it emerges from decades of military rule.
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Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who accuse Khan of colluding with the still powerful army, said the vote count was rigged in what it termed an assault on democracy in a country with a history of military rule.
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Several journalists in Myanmar have been arrested this year, leading rights groups to warn that the gains made in press freedom since the end of military rule risk being reversed under the administration of national leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Brazil's most polarized election since the end of military rule in 1985 pits Bolsonaro, a former Army captain running on a law-and-order platform, against leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party, whose leader is in jail for corruption.
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Several journalists in Myanmar have been arrested this year, leading rights groups to warn that the gains made in press freedom since the end of military rule risk being reversed under the rule of national leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Mr Daura was immediately sacked, but the sight of armed troops surrounding a building that symbolises Nigeria's return to civilian rule in 1999 raised uncomfortable memories of its years of military rule, including a stint under Mr Buhari, then a general.
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The reporters' imprisonment has sparked an outcry from press freedom advocates, Western diplomats, and world leaders, adding to pressure on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who took power in 2016 amid a transition to military rule.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A small "ping pong" bomb hidden in a plastic bag exploded in Bangkok on Friday, wounding a street cleaner, police said, after a spate of small bombs in the Thai capital raised speculation about opposition to military rule.
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Despite the end of full military rule, and the election in 2015 of a government led by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, concern in Myanmar is growing about press freedom, and about the challenge Suu Kyi faces in achieving peace.
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The Southeast Asian country is currently under military rule and pro-establishment lawmakers intend to ensure that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, a former army chief, keeps his post during general elections next year, according to reports this week.
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Suu Kyi led efforts to end decades of military rule and won a landmark election in the Buddhist-majority country in 2015, but her civilian government shares power with the military and has no control over the army and police.
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But who is to say that the recent crackdown on gay and transgender Egyptians does not contextualize the aggressive return of military rule since the 2013 coup against Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt's history?
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Beyond a sizable population of 50 million people, it is quite unique because it has gone from zero internet access to widespread adoption, creating an open field of opportunities for businesses, after the country emerged from decades of military rule.
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The stock exchange's single listing represents another important step for the one-time pariah nation, which is slowly working to open up its economy and its political system after around five decades of military rule that left the country deeply impoverished.
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"It appears that Jatupat was singled out from the thousands of people who shared the BBC article, and prosecuted for his strong opposition to military rule more than for any harm incurred by the monarchy," Adams said in a statement.
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Sunday's general elections have been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics believe they have been rigged by a new army-backed constitution giving military-appointed officials a large say in the next government.
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Meanwhile, those who express opposition to military rule — the current form of government and one that has been a staple throughout the nation's 19 army coups since 1932 — can get slapped with sedition charges that carry a seven-year jail term.
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Rights groups were hopeful there would be further gains in press freedoms after Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi came to power last year amid a transition from full military rule that had propelled her from political prisoner to elected leader.
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For the first time in over 50 years the South-East Asian country now has a civilian president and executive, all from the National League for Democracy (NLD), founded by Aung San Suu Kyi in 1988 to oppose military rule.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee approved President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar on Thursday, after the administration assured panel members it would not quickly change sanctions policy as the country moves from decades of military rule.
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Khan's party has a commanding lead in partial election results, but supporters of jailed ex-prime Nawaz Sharif alleged rigging in the vote count, calling the process an assault on democracy in a country that has a history of military rule.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Negotiators from Sudan's ruling military council and main opposition coalition have made progress on the sticking points in discussions on the transition from military rule and are set to hold direct talks within 48 hours, an opposition leader said.
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"Government of the rich, for the rich, making rules for the poor," protesters chanted against a backbeat of anthems by Afrobeat superstar Fela Kuti, a fearless critic of Nigeria's often brutal and corrupt military rule until his death in 1997.
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More talks between the two sides on the transition from military rule to a new sovereign council were due to take place on Tuesday but were postponed after the shooting, a pattern that has happened repeatedly after bouts of violence.
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And the U.S. applied no serious pressure when General al-Sisi exploited a mass uprising against the incompetence of the elected Islamist regime — one of the largest political demonstration in human history — to reimpose military rule and crush all peaceful dissent.
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Just over a decade after the end of Pakistan's most recent era of military rule, Wednesday's vote features competing narratives of democracy amid Sharif's accusations elements of the powerful army are working to throw the race to Khan, which he denies.
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More troublingly, these consecutive de-facto recognitions of Israeli annexations may also embolden voices in the Israeli right calling for the annexation of the West Bank, which is under Israeli military rule, but has not been incorporated into Israel by law.
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The cancellation highlights sensitivities over portrayals of the army as Myanmar grapples with the legacy of nearly 50 years of military rule, following a semi-civilian government and 2015 elections that led to the administration of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Since taking power in April, former political prisoner Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has released scores of detainees and is making a big push to revise some of the most repressive measures from the long years of military rule.
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Many student activists during South Korea's military rule in the 1980s studied and even sympathized with the North's ruling ideology of Juche - a concoction of Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism championed by Kim Il Sung.
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Thailand has moved one step closer towards entrenched military rule in recent days, after the governing junta granted sweeping powers of arrest and detention to military personnel, drawing harsh criticism from civil society groups and the US government in the process.
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Thailand's move towards increasing authoritarianism and the possible rooting of the military in the legislature has come at a time when neighboring Myanmar is being lauded for emerging from the political wilderness of almost half a century of military rule.
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Human rights activists say such arrests show room for free expression is shrinking under Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's government and the gains made in securing such freedoms since the end of military rule in 2011 risk being reversed.
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But other widely criticized laws dating from military rule have been, including the Electronic Transactions Law, which bars distributing information in digital form that "lowers the dignity of any organization or any person" and has been used to prosecute journalists.
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Doesn't the fact that Israel controls the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories through military rule mean that it is now a state in which one population has civil rights and a second population is under occupation and lacks civil rights?
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Her foreign supporters and Western governments that backed her campaign against military rule, and see her as the best hope for Myanmar's future, will be hoping to see her make a commitment to protect the rights of the Muslim minority.
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"Last year's election was supposed to bring an end to military rule in Thailand, but after today no one is fooled into believing this is the case," said Francisca Castro, a Philippine lawmaker and member of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Tuesday that military rule in the southern Philippines would soon end, two and a half years after he imposed it in response to a rebellion by Islamic State militants in the city of Marawi.
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Tusk, jailed during Soviet-backed military rule in Poland, seized on Pence bringing up his own youthful travels to divided Cold War Berlin to remind him at the news conference of commitments made by an earlier Republican president, Ronald Reagan.
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The changes are the biggest shift in Brazil's environmental policies since it adopted a new constitution in 1988 at the end of a military rule, said Adriana Ramos from the Social and Environmental Institute (ISA), a Brasilia-based campaign group.
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Tension between majority Buddhists and Rohingya, most of whom are denied citizenship, has simmered for decades in Rakhine, but it has exploded at times over the past few years, as old enmities surfaced with the end of decades of harsh military rule.
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The violence in Rakhine State and the refugee exodus is the biggest crisis the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has faced since it came to power last year in a transition from nearly 50 years of harsh military rule.
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The United States was a strong backer of Suu Kyi as she emerged in the 1980s as a pro-democracy icon who endured years of house arrest for standing up to military rule and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle.
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Social media users have criticized the speed and professionalism of the police response after the girl's family filed a complaint more than a month ago, underscoring a lack of trust in authorities in a country still emerging from decades of military rule.
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The recent arrest of several journalists has raised fears that free speech is under pressure in Myanmar, even under a government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who led efforts to end decades of military rule and won a landmark election in 2015.
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By returning to serve a sentence that he attributes to an army conspiracy, Mr Sharif has tried to persuade voters that the election is a choice between democracy (supposedly represented by his party) and military rule with the PTI as its front.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A constitution that Thailand will decide on in a referendum next month is not aimed at perpetuating military rule, an official who helped write it said on Wednesday, as a former premier from a pro-establishment party rejected the draft charter.
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But three years ago she was asked to run for parliament by the National League for Democracy (NLD), the political party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the activist whose long campaign for democracy was instrumental in ending military rule in Myanmar.
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The Southeast Asian country's economy was devastated by nearly 50 years of military rule and rapid reforms since the junta handed over power in 2011 have included the development of capital markets to help finance growth, such as the new stock market.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A draft constitution for army-run Thailand to be unveiled this month will be "strong medicine", the constitution panel head said on Wednesday, adding that there was no guarantee it would pass a referendum, meaning a further extension of military rule.
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Former cricket star Khan, 2000, took office last month after an election campaign in which he railed against what he denounced as corruption and waste by the two main political parties that ruled for than 50 years in between periods of military rule.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro, known for misogynistic, racist and homophobic remarks, as well as approving comments about military rule, won praise this month from Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, who said the US was "thrilled" to be working with a "like-minded" leader.
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Volkswagen, the third largest automaker in Brazil by sales, said it is not considering financial compensation for the victims at the moment and has no plan to extend the study to its factory in Argentina during the years of military rule there.
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Growth in Myanmar's investment follows reforms launched in 2012 by former president Thein Sein, a former general who enlisted help from technocrats and global financial institutions to overhaul an economy that wilted under sanctions and inept policymaking during five decades of military rule.
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The reporters' imprisonment has sparked an outcry from press freedom advocates, Western diplomats, and world leaders, adding to pressure on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who took power in 2016 amid a transition to democracy from military rule.
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He was released in 2004 after an eight-year stretch behind bars, and returned to Pakistan from self-exile three years later alongside Benazir Bhutto in her bid to retake the prime minister's office and end the military rule of General Pervez Musharraf.
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The crisis has raised grave doubts about Myanmar's transition from military-ruled pariah to budding democracy, and about the commitment to human rights of the democracy leader who struggled to end nearly 50 years of harsh military rule - Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Popular support for Ma Ba Tha did not hurt Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party in Myanmar's 2015 general election, the first since the end of military rule, because many people voted for broad change instead of specific policies, Mr. Walton said.
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Like many of the 220 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut-chan-o-cha seized power in a 203 coup.
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An outbreak in Myanmar, for example, could strain a country that's still grappling with the legacy of decades of brutal military rule, where one in four people live in poverty, and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis are among the leading causes of death.
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (Reuters) - A Thai soldier's killing of 29 people in a rage over a housing deal involving his superior officer has brought attention to the business dealings of army personnel in a country that just emerged from direct military rule.
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Still, others contend that Myanmar's democratic transition is barely three years old, emerging from more than 50 years of military rule, and that it is unreasonable for her or the country's nascent democratic institutions to effectively address decades of persecution and hate.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey published to mark World Press Freedom Day on Thursday.
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The Israeli communities — distinguished by their red roofs and access to Israeli-supplied water pipelines and Israeli-only highways — are a stinging reminder to the Palestinians that Israeli military rule over the West Bank is creeping toward permanence with every passing year.
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In his book's scariest section, Mounk relates research showing, among other antidemocratic attitudes, that the percentage of Americans who say they have a favorable opinion of military rule has increased from one in 16 in 1995 to one in six in 2011.
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Myanmar's first freely elected Parliament after half a century of military rule opened on Monday, a symbolic but critical milestone in the country's fragile transition to democracy, and a moment long awaited by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the nation's democracy movement.
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Suu Kyi's less than two-year old civilian government has faced heavy international criticism for its response to the crisis, though it has no control over the generals it has to share power with under Myanmar's transition to power after decades of military rule.
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Output has continued to stagnate since the deals were signed, dropping to 1.46 million barrels per day in November from more than 2 million at the end of last year, according to OPEC figures, in a sign of the company's struggles under military rule.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi has for years been feted in the West for her role as a champion of democracy during years of military rule and house arrest, and her landslide election win last year on a platform of reform was widely hailed.
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In one of its firmest statements yet, the 28-nation bloc, which is a significant donor to Myanmar, said that the case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo was an important test for the country's commitment to developing democracy after years of military rule.
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The government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticized for failing to speak out against the military crackdown in Rakhine, and investors have voiced concern that sanctions that long hobbled the economy for years under military rule could be reinstated over it.
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The issue of how far to go in reaching out to former foes from nearly half a century of military rule may prove one of the first faultines to emerge within the NLD, with the potential to threaten or even derail Suu Kyi's ambitious agenda.
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Tension between majority Buddhists and Rohingya, most of whom are denied citizenship, has simmered for decades in Rakhine, but it has exploded several times over the past few years, as old enmities, and Buddhist nationalism, surfaced with the end of decades of harsh military rule.
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The southern island of Mindanao was placed under military rule Tuesday following an attack on Marawi City, the capital of Lanao del Sur province, by the Maute Group — a local affiliate of the Islamic State who is lesser known than fellow homegrown network Abu Sayyef.
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But the killing comes at a time of heightened communal and religious tensions in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where a civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been in power for 10 months after a formal transition from decades of military rule.
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WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials on Tuesday said they would lift a broad array of sanctions on Myanmar, removing restrictions on state-owned banks and businesses as they seek to reward a historic move toward democracy in a country dominated for decades by brutal military rule.
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But on Wednesday, Khalid Omar, from the opposition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, said their lower-level technical committees isolated the key points of contention in a constitutional declaration that will set the path from military rule to a new sovereign council.
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Prayuth, in a televised address to the nation, said military rule had brought success in many areas, from fixing the problem of illegal fishing and human trafficking, to the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave last year.
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The transition from military rule to a civilian-led government, which allowed the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to become the de facto head of state, ground to a halt and even regressed after she took office, he remarked later to reporters.
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On Tuesday, Francis is scheduled to meet with the civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who's been criticized around the world for not doing enough to halt the violence — but who may be the country's best chance to prevent a backslide into absolute military rule.
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Last year, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the young leader of the Future Forward Party and a vocal critic of military rule, was accused of violating the Computer Crime Act, which penalizes the sharing of fake news and is considered a blunt political instrument by human rights groups.
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The reporters' imprisonment has sparked an outcry from press freedom advocates, Western diplomats and world leaders, adding to pressure on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who took power in 2016 as the country made a transition to democracy from military rule.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her long struggle against military rule, has many fans among lawmakers around the world, and that may insulate Myanmar from more serious censure from the United States and other governments.
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Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi's less than two-year old civilian government has faced heavy international criticism for its response to the crisis, though it has no control over the generals it has to share power with under Myanmar's transition after decades of military rule.
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In fact, much like in the US and in democracies across Western Europe — as Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa's work on democratic deconsolidation shows — a decline in trust in political institutions is making people more open to authoritarian alternatives such as military rule.
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Under military rule, "all of us were fighting for democracy and rights and freedom," said Mr. Khin Zaw Win, who was jailed for 11 years, often alongside activists who are now officials in Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy.
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Concerns that Bukele is using troops to intimidate lawmakers comes at a time when leaders of several nations in Latin America, where military rule was common in the 1970s and 80s, are leaning on armed forces to give them a helping hand in domestic politics.
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"These channels (of communication) have been closed for the last two years, so the games have already had significant effects on the ability of the governments to start talking again," Smith, the author of "North Korea: Markets and Military Rule," told CNBC on Wednesday.
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If the State Department were to adopt the terminology for the situation in Rakhine, it would increase pressure on the U.S. government to implement new sanctions on Myanmar, which has moved toward a democratic civilian government in recent years after decades of military rule.
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Calheiros, 60, is part of a group of politicians known in Brazil as the "dinosaurs", an old guard who entered politics under military rule and consolidated power after the return of democracy in the 1980s with a knack for compromise and sharp survival instincts.
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He is from a generation of student leaders who fought for democracy under military rule in the 1980s and went on to political careers; such politicians often present themselves as being of better character than older conservatives, many of whom had connections to the dictatorship.
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" Rohingya in 'no man's land' to be sent back to Myanmar Oxford honor previously rescinded In November, Suu Kyi was stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award, which honored her in 1997 for "her opposition to oppression and military rule in Burma.
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Videla may only have lasted as dictator until 1981—military rule finally collapsed under Leopoldo Galtieri a year later after defeat in the Falklands War—but Argentina winning the tournament allowed the junta to continue their human rights abuses beneath a veneer of popularity.
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"It is a difficult path, but we've tried to convince our people that it's a success, and we think that it will pave the way to an end of any military rule in Sudan," Siddig Yousif, one of the main negotiators, told the BBC.
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For a country that has been deeply divided by political strife and remains under military rule following a coup four years ago, the sight of mud-caked soldiers and volunteers working in pouring rain has filled Thais with both pride and a sense of common cause.
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Given the dismaying accumulation of such embarrassments, it is not surprising that Pew Global, a polling group, last year found Indians to be less enthusiastic about democracy, and more drawn to having a strong leader or even military rule, than citizens of any other democracy surveyed.
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In this post-apocalyptic future, a huge class divide is maintained by military rule—the elite live in fancy, militarized high rises in Los Angeles while the poor are relegated to massive slums on the outskirts of the city, where they are slaughtered indiscriminately by the military.
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The violence in Rakhine State and the exodus of refugees is the biggest crisis the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has faced since it came to power last year as part of a transition away from nearly 50 years of harsh military rule.
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Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's less than two-year old civilian government has faced heavy international criticism for its response to the crisis, though it has no control over the generals it has to share power with under Myanmar's transition after decades of military rule.
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The United States maintained military rule from 1945 to 1948, and this led to the establishment of two separate governments in the north and south, which in turn led to the Korean War in 85033 when the United States took operational control of South Korean forces.
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At the time, Brazil was basking in its triumphs — including a growing presence on the world stage, the lifting of millions of poor people into the middle class and the maturing of its young democracy after 230 years of military rule that had ended in 210.
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The election's main contest is expected to be between populist parties loyal to ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra and pro-establishment parties seeking to extend military rule through the ballot, but complex electoral rules mean smaller parties will likely play a role in any coalition government.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - As many as 39 people have been killed in election violence in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaited the results of voting in what was forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999.
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But his dramatic courtroom act has drawn new attention to the simmering tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in southern Thailand, where more than 163,000 people have been killed by militants over the past 15 years and countless more have had their rights diminished by military rule.
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After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Cuba was put under United States military rule until 1902; in the treaties that followed, ownership of the Isle of Youth was left so vague that American companies bought up most of the arable land and opened it to settlers.
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The latest outbreak in violence, which has killed at least 3903,000 people, threatens to destabilize Myanmar's neighbors and permanently tarnish the reputation of the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was once widely revered as a democratic icon for helping to end Myanmar's decades of military rule.
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The latest outbreak in violence, which has killed at least 1,000 people, threatens to destabilize Myanmar's neighbors and permanently tarnish the reputation of the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was once widely revered as a democratic icon for helping to end Myanmar's decades of military rule.
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Denying Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza the fundamental right to vote for the leaders of their nation-state, while keeping them under military rule with daily violations of their human rights, has deeply corroded the ability of Israel to be the place its founders longed for.
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" He complains that, because the West Bank (called Judea and Samaria by the Israeli government) is under military rule, Maale Adumim's residents need to apply to the army if they wish, for instance, to close a veranda: "There is no reason that the Israeli law shouldn't apply here.
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The region of 22 million people, which has a history of separatist and Marxist rebellion, was placed under military rule on May 23 after rebels from the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups took over parts of Marawi City, plunging the Philippines into its biggest security crisis in years.
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Only two governments have completed their five-year terms in Pakistan's 10-year history, and Pakistan's has swung back and forth between military government and civilian democracy, with military rule resulting in repression and civilian rule in a lack of delivery on its promises and disappointment for Pakistanis.
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The action against Future Forward took place less than a year after Thailand held the election to end direct military rule, strengthening the position in parliament of a coalition led by Prime Minister Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former junta leader who took power in a 2014 coup.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) swept to power in elections last November, and the United States eased sanctions against Myanmar in May, buoying hopes for a quick uptick of foreign investment into the country which has suffered from decades of economic hardship under military rule.
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"The marriage ended with no hard feelings," he said this month after sacking Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a minister who had said that others in government should be more careful on social media—thus outraging Bolsonaro fans who tweet about the virtues of military rule and the horrors of homosexuality.
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Indonesia has long been considered moderate in its practice of Islam but since the end of military rule, it has steadily grown less tolerant, with one province, Aceh, implementing Shariah law and many local governments adopting Islamic measures, such as requiring women and girls to wear hijabs, or head scarves.
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Op-Ed Contributor YANGON, Myanmar — The National League for Democracy celebrated its first year in power recently, and the record of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's young government, which succeeded decades of military rule, already is disappointing some ethnic groups and outside observers, notably when it comes to human rights.
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In a country still haunted by the years of military rule, the man who was General Pinochet's son-in-law and used that position to become first the government's representative on the SQM board and then its major shareholder in the privatisation process of the 1980s is, well, a controversial figure.
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The unusually high number of military officers in his government, including the recently retired army general Hamilton Mourão, who was his running mate, represents a remarkable shift for a nation that kept the military largely out of sight as it rebuilt democratic institutions after the end of military rule in the mid-1980s.
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The entrenched one-state reality that Israel has created through its relentless colonization of Palestinian land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (Israel's settler population grew by more than 100,000 during the Obama era), has already resulted in a separate-and-unequal status for generations of Palestinians subjected to brutal military rule.
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While Mr. Buhari failed to keep some of his early promises, especially in cracking down on terrorism, many voters still see the former general, who led the nation under military rule in the 1980s, as a strongman with the credentials to fight Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group ravaging the country's northeast.
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Though Myanmar is facing rapid political and cultural shifts—more than 50 years of military rule came to an end in 2016, and decades of US sanctions, which severely crimped the country's economy, have been lifted—it remains to be seen how long it will take for attitudes around the LGBTQ population to thaw.
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During the decades of military rule, the country lacked a free press and the junta operated largely in secret—the military changed the country's flag and moved the capital with almost no prior warnings—people in Myanmar had spent decades reliant on state-run propaganda newspapers, parsing opaque military announcements for what was really happening.
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Thangyat performances are a form of role reversal in which the authorities permit ordinary people to say things that would not otherwise be tolerated, said Christina Fink, a Myanmar expert at George Washington University and the author of a 2009 book about survival under military rule in the country, which is also known as Burma.
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Instead Venezuela could face either a relatively long transition under military rule, lasting until the armed forces are convinced that a return to democracy will not jeopardize their power and privileges, or a hybrid military-civilian regime in which Mr. Guaidó and other opposition leaders will share power with military leaders accused of serious crimes.
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A draft law that seeks to provide greater protection for women by modernizing Myanmar's statutes has wide support among local advocacy groups and legislators from the governing National League for Democracy, which came to power last year on the heels of an election victory that ended more than half a century of military rule.
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The action against the Future Forward Party took place less than a year after Thailand held an election to end direct military rule and it strengthens the position in parliament of a coalition led by Prime Minister Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former junta leader who first took power in a 2014 coup.
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They saw the pair's jailing as yet another symptom of Myanmar's failure to reform itself, even under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, a democracy activist and winner of the Nobel Peace prize who ended many decades of military rule in 2016 when she came to power as head of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
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Shockingly, that's also the case in the United States, at least according to a study in the Journal of Democracy, which examines an apparently growing openness to living under military rule among Americans and Europeans Included in the study is a graph tracking the percentage of people who believe it "essential" to live in a democracy.
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Over the course of the next three decades, Hosni Mubarak's Egypt would go on to win the Cup of Nations on four separate occasions, with football sponsored heavily by the establishment, while Nigeria under military rule became a serious footballing force, with the Super Eagles contesting four finals over the course of the eighties, winning one.
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U Swe Win, a veteran journalist and former political prisoner who is himself facing defamation charges that could return him to jail, noted that the news media, which had been muzzled during military rule, enjoyed a renaissance during a period of transitional governance from 2011-15, when U Thein Sein, a former junta general, led the country.
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Given the flood of ore from Myanmar, it's no surprise that tin dropped in January to the lowest since August 2009, but it is somewhat more surprising that the metal has recovered so strongly, even as China continues to soak up output from the country that returned to democracy after elections in November 2015 ended more than five decades of military rule.
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Notably, the administration's Latin America strategy has involved closer engagement with Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro — who has spoken fondly of military rule — in the fight to "advance the rule of law and increase security and prosperity" within the region Go deeper: Inside Trump's Venezuela pivot Juan Guaidó vows to return to Venezuela after border clashes U.S. sanctions cripple Venezuela's oil sector
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Thailand's jolts between civilian and military rule in recent years have been attributed by analysts to a battle between the entrenched Bangkok-based elite and the popular rural-based political movement of Shinawatra, whose social programs directed at countryside communities have provided him with unwavering support among impoverished farmers, even in the face of compelling evidence of his involvement in graft.
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The rift between the chief justice and the president widened after Ms. Sereno voted against two of Mr. Duterte's signature initiatives — his declaration of military rule in the southern Philippines last year to defeat a group linked to the Islamic State, and a directive allowing a hero's burial for Ferdinand Marcos, the ousted dictator who died in exile in 1989.
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