Word: dictatorship
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...Aristide endured three years of exile, the grassroots supporters of this democratic movement suffered the greatest hardship. With tacit support from the first Bush administration, training from U.S. Special Forces and CIA financing, the military dictatorship and its paramilitary forces murdered thousands whose only crime was supporting democracy. Little over a decade later, the U.S. has allowed these same paramilitary forces to come to power. Their only demand: to reinstate the military that Aristide abolished...
...island that has suffered decades of bloodshed and dictatorship--not to mention the possession of souls--seems to offer a formidable prospect for a novelist: What fiction can possibly stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained...
...south and Turkish north of Cyprus after realizing that April 21 - the date earmarked for the ballot - coincided with the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern Greek history. On that day in 1967, the Greek military mounted a coup that resulted in seven years of military dictatorship in Athens and eventually triggered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
...Mainstream political opposition leaders like Evans Paul, who is co-authoring a still-unfinished transition scheme called the Platform Democratique, promised a fresh democracy. ?We are committed to never again returning to a dictatorship in Haiti,? Paul insisted. ?We will show the world we can build a different Haiti...
...entirely on the line? if they ignore their pledge to disarm. His concern is widely shared: A wide swath of the rebel army has links to some of the most brutal military abuses of Haiti?s recent past, including massacres of civilians committed during the three-year army dictatorship that aborted Aristide?s first presidency in 1991, until a U.S. intervention restored Aristide to power...