Word: dictatorship
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...former senator who was shot and killed as he returned from exile two years ago this week. And last week Jaime Cardinal Sin, long a critic of the President, declared: "The Filipino has had enough of one-man rule. He has had enough of constitutional authoritarianism, of presidential dictatorship masquerading as democracy. The Filipino wants a return to genuine democracy...
...worst domestic violence since the Socialist government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou took power in 1981. The trouble began during the annual Nov. 17 march commemorating the 1973 student uprising that marked the beginning of the end of the country's seven-year military dictatorship. Thugs in the crowd ran amuck and attacked a police bus. One of the cops shot back, killing a 15-year-old schoolboy. The Athens government quickly charged the policeman with manslaughter. Papandreou, who has been under attack from organized labor for imposing austerity measures, condemned the shooting as a "horrible act of murder...
...started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality of the 1930s. They were quickly disillusioned. With victory, repression returned. Hundreds of thousands of returning pows were sent straight to the Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There...
...Harvard doubled its investment in PetroChina, a company accused of having ties to the dictatorship in Sudan, Terry and former UC president Matthew W. Mahan ’05 founded Senior Gift Plus to protest the University’s “lack of conscience.” Though Terry was no longer president of the BMF, having passed the role onto Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, the organization stood behind its former leader’s convictions. BMF joined with the other black organizations on campus and formed a strong black presence at the silent protests...
...ever-sympathetic South African President Thabo Mbeki could have deemed such and election fair. Instead, the MDC engaged in a futile campaign that only lent credibility to the farce elections in Zimbabwe. The MDC must learn from this mistake and refrain from inadvertently further validating Mugabe’s dictatorship...