Word: dictatorship
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...ROK’s neighbor, North Korea, has conducted a nuclear test detonation. But the Associated Press reported last night that a team of U.S. experts has begun disabling North Korea’s nuclear weapons-making facilities, marking the first time the isolationist dictatorship has ever moved to scale back its development of atomic bombs...
...what does this mean for the future of the country? It is a very big problem. It means that dictatorship will be sustained until it is reversed. It is a clear breach of the understanding that Musharraf has with my party. We have been engaged with him for a period of time for a negotiated peaceful transfer to democracy. He has promised to retire as army chief. He has promised to hold fair elections, and implement fair election reform. Contrary to these promises, he has imposed emergency without consulting me. We advised him against doing this. And he chose...
...been convicted by an Iraqi court, and if they request it, we will hand him over." Iraqi officials argue that if Hashem doesn't hang, other war criminals may get away with their crimes. They insist that if Iraq is to move toward democracy after decades of dictatorship, the independence of its courts and the sentences those courts hand down must be upheld without the kind of interference they say is blocking Hashem's execution. With Iraq's high tribunal determined to carry out his sentence, Hashem's fate rests on the extent of U.S. determination to keep him from...
...crowd were fans. Raheel Iqbal, the former information secretary for the Karachi wing of the People's party said that Bhutto had betrayed her father's cause. "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's manifesto was anti-imperialist, anti-general and anti dictatorship. We spent years in jail to stand up for this manifesto, and now Benazir arrives with American support, and has been making meetings with General Musharraf. Democracy does not require a deal with a dictator." Bhutto has returned to Pakistan with the tacit support of President General Pervez Musharraf, who took power in 1999. Bhutto and Musharraf have been negotiating...
...time when nationalist sentiment is running high in Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia, it makes sense that the monarchy, that most Spanish of symbols, would come under questioning. But a broader change is afoot as well. After decades of silence about its Civil War and 40-year dictatorship, Spain is experiencing a dramatic revival of interest in its recent past: witness the slew of books and movies documenting the crimes of the Franco regime, or the teams of volunteers who spend their weekends unearthing mass graves from the Civil War. It was only a matter of time before...