Word: coups
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...government-controlled TV and radio, that message has been hammered home in recent weeks, as Tunisians mark a historic date: the 20th anniversary of the coup that brought President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power on Nov. 7, 1987. Educated in France and the U.S., Ben Ali was Prime Minister when he ousted Habib Bourguiba, the founder of modern Tunisia. Today, celebratory billboards around Tunis hail the 71-year-old Ben Ali, often pictured wearing his ceremonial sash and medals...
...genuine dialogue,’” Maug said. Since August, monks in Myanmar have been protesting increased oil and gas prices imposed by the military junta. Last month, government soldiers tear-gassed crowds, arrested monks, and killed several protesters. The government, which came to power after a coup in 1988, is accused of human rights violations and of limiting freedom of expression. The bill approved by the council yesterday follows in the footsteps of a 1996 law, also introduced by Rushing, that barred Massachusetts corporations from doing business with companies tied to Myanmar. The U.S. Supreme Court struck...
...Arroyo's political opponents have charged the payouts were bribes intended to buy legislators' loyalty in pending impeachment proceedings, although the League of Provinces of the Philippines insists the money was for "capacity building." The President is facing increasing calls for her resignation, and even rumors of another attempted coup like those...
...accused rogue government and security officials of involvement.) Moreover, Bhutto can no longer count on unqualified support of party followers who first vaulted her to power in 1988, and again in 1993. And after eight years under President Pervez Musharraf, the general who seized power in that 1999 coup, Pakistan has become increasingly polarized: the civilian population wants democracy back, a fundamentalist religious fringe seeks the establishment of an Islamic state and the military is bent on holding on to power. How Bhutto, 54, negotiates this minefield will largely determine the fate of this nuclear-armed nation of 165 million...
...patrol the border between Iraq and Turkey. It would take at least another hundred thousand troops. We have little or no political leverage over Talabani, who on occasion has told interlocutors that the Turkish General Staff is funding the PKK - presumably to unbalance Turkish democracy and justify a coup d'etat. It's nonsense, of course, but demonstrates that Talabani is still not ready to confront...