Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army reluctantly intervened to prevent an unscrupulous and corrupt political leadership from destabilizing the armed forces, the last remaining viable institution after Sharif had systematically eroded the autonomy and authority of the president, the parliament and the judiciary. Refusing to give a definite timetable for the restoration of a civilian, representative government, Musharraf claims that the military will withdraw to the barracks once it has prepared the grounds for a "true democracy," having eradicated all the ills of the Pakistani state, where violence is rampant as a result of political polarization and financial bankruptcy is only averted through external grants...
...also a supreme irony for a military junta to claim it intends to depoliticize state institutions. Not only will the armed forces play a direct political role but they will work, as in the past, through the civil bureaucracy, picking and choosing their civilian allies and in the process undermining institutional norms and procedures. In its first few weeks in power, the Musharraf regime has already appointed and dismissed a number of key bureaucrats and political expediency will continue to dictate its interaction with the civil administration...
...responsible for dictating and overseeing the framework under which it handed over power in 1988. Sharif himself was handpicked by the military and installed in power not once, but twice through manipulated elections. Tutored by his military mentors, it is but natural that Sharif behaved more like a civilian despot than an elected prime minister, riding roughshod over his political opposition and demolishing every government institution that stood...
...Chechnya, terrorism may be in the eyes of the beholder. Russian forces, purportedly on a campaign against Chechen terrorists, fired missiles into a crowded market place and a maternity home in Grozny Thursday, reportedly killing more than 100 civilians. Although Moscow denied that any civilians had died in what it called a strike on an arms depot, Western reporters inside Grozny reported seeing scores of broken bodies strewn across the marketplace and the corpses of a large number of women and babies at the maternity home. The U.S. expressed concern over the civilian casualties, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held...
...addition, Dan Moniz, the bill's most active civilian advocate, and Robert Curley, Jeffrey's father, testified before the council...