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...passing motorists. Observed Port-au-Prince Businessman Roger Savain: ''Any country that has such a legion of poor and unemployed is a volcano ready to erupt.'' The wave of unrest was also directed against the unpopular Colonel Williams Regala, the Interior Minister and a member of the ruling junta. Regala was blamed for a clash between demonstrators and security forces that occurred in April at the notorious Fort Dimanche Prison during a memorial service for thousands of Haitians who died there during the Duvalier dictatorship. At least seven people were killed after protesters attempted to invade the fort. Perhaps most...
...Sunny Thailand may once have been a political bright spot in a region overshadowed by autocrats and juntas, but the last few years have been nothing short of chaos. In September 2006, after months of street protests against elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the military deposed him in a bloodless coup. (Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon, was subsequently banned from politics and now faces corruption charges, which he denies.) A year of uninspired army junta rule followed. In elections last December, voters, who had once handed Thaksin the largest mandate in recent Thai history, brought to power right-wing firebrand Samak...
That campaign of state intimidation will continue in the months ahead, says Maroleng. "After the poll, we will see a consolidation of the military junta's control of the organs of state. They have seized the state, and now they will want to stamp out any opposition to their rule." Facing a future of worsening poverty and harassment, millions more Zimbabweans are expected to flee their homeland. An estimated fifth to a quarter of the original population of 13 million are now refugees...
...Joint Operations Command are now in charge of Zimbabwe, having staged a silent coup shortly after the March elections. In a telephone interview from inside Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai, 56, a former trade union leader, compared the militias to the janjaweed in Darfur and described the government as a junta. Indeed, under Mugabe's regime, the country is fast becoming Africa's Burma: an isolated military cabal bent on crushing democracy, paranoid about imagined foreign conspiracies and prepared to sacrifice its people to preserve its power...
...because then they will have removed any residual legitimacy they had. In fact, they should act to that extreme, and then they will have exposed themselves. And I'm sure that the South African Development Community and the African Union and the whole international community will see the military junta that is in place for what...