Word: dictatorship
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...atrocities. "It's just a black campaign against him," says Catalín Pastor, an Ixil Maya in traditional garb, as she mounts the stage for a Ríos Montt rally in San Juan Cotzal. At 22, Pastor doesn't remember Ríos Montt's dictatorship - and she's proud to be running for a seat in Congress with his party, the Guatemalan Republican Front (frg). The prospect of a Ríos Montt presidency is a moment of high anxiety even in dysfunctional Guatemala. Polls show Ríos Montt is running a close third and gaining...
This week’s expedition to Burma, hosted by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), stands as a symbol of Harvard’s complacency and ignorance in response to the numerous and excessive human rights abuses of the Burmese military dictatorship, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC...
...government of Burma—which arbitrarily renamed the country Myanmar in 1989—has long been considered a human rights pariah within the international community. Burma seized the world’s attention in 1988 when the dictatorship massacred thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrating for democracy. In a further display of contempt for democratic ideals, the SPDC held free elections in 1990, naively believing that it would win. When the opposition won all but 10 out of 485 seats in the People’s Assembly, however, the SPDC imprisoned or killed members and supporters of the democratically...
...Danilov’s bell tower makes the monastery seem far removed from the frenetic, modern city that has grown up around it—and the political and cultural revolutions of the past 100 years that have transformed Russia from a centuries-old monarchy to a Communist dictatorship to a free market democracy...
...provide impoverished North Korea with energy assistance. In exchange, the North agreed to halt production of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Countries in the Stalinist state's menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement was signed, Clinton assured the world that the deal was "the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula...