Word: dictatorship
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...wall went moderates, liberals and leftists who were on record as opposing the dictatorship of Muslim fundamentalists. The most illustrious victim was Poet Said Soltanpour, who had been arrested at his own wedding several weeks before. As an indomitable opponent of the Shah, Soltanpour had been tortured for his views by the SAVAK, the imperial secret police. At his summary trial last week, Soltanpour told Gilani that he regarded the Islamic Republic as a reactionary and corrupt regime that would soon be "crushed by the people it has betrayed." Gilani sentenced him to death as a "crusader against...
...politics into a welter of warring factions. Banisadr lost more favor when he seemed too eager to work out a deal with the U.S. for the release of the embassy hostages. Late last week, from hiding, Banisadr issued a call to Iranians to "unite against fundamentalists and the unprecedented dictatorship they are imposing on the country." He also demanded an open trial to defend himself...
...warn you that if you do not resist, dictatorship will prevail and reduce you to misery...
...another Maryknoll father, Roy Bourgeois, burst into the news when he disappeared in El Salvador, leaving behind a letter that accused the Reagan Administration of providing military aid to a "repressive dictatorship at war with its own people." Maryknoll Superior General James Noonan rushed from the society's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y., to El Salvador and indicated that the priest was the victim of foul play. After all, two Maryknoll nuns and two other missionaries had been murdered in December (six soldiers are currently under provisional arrest for the crime). But, to the embarrassment of Noonan and the whole...
...people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled. Troops demolished the Maryknoll radio station and printing press in Riberalta...