Word: rebellion
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...That war was just as cruel as WW II. On many days thousands of soldiers lost their lives. Why aren't we creating elaborate new memorials for them? Is it because most of the soldiers involved in that conflict were not Americans? Igor Tyolgovatsor Budapest After the Rebellion "Two faces of china" [June 14] reported how the 1989 protests and their brutal suppression by the government are rapidly fading from the Chinese people's memory. That is too bad. China is still haunted by the ghosts of Tiananmen Square, as the Communist Party continues to ignore the people's best...
...night the P.L.A. opened fire on peaceful crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators, but he also revealed that China's late President Yang Shangkun and Party elder Chen Yun privately expressed regret over the carnage. For the past 15 years, Beijing has insisted the demonstration was a "counterrevolutionary rebellion" engineered by a small number of "black hands," and denied reports of the mass killing of innocent civilians. Jiang argued in his letter that if the leaders responsible for ordering the troops to open fire had admitted they made a mistake, then it was time the current leadership did the same...
...cracks down hard on incitement of all kinds--from urging sectarian violence to rebellion, riot and noncompliance. As for Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shi'ite firebrand who whipped up mayhem in the sect's holy cities after his newspaper was shut down at the end of March, al-Rubaie brushes him aside. "This is a bubble that will burst, and we will see it go away," he says. Al-Sadr has indicated he plans to form a political party to compete in coming Iraqi elections. Meanwhile he is keeping up the heat and late last week preached a sermon urging...
...accusing the Prime Minister of "incompetence" for failing to unite Nepal's fractious political parties and crush the kingdom's bloody Maoist insurgency. Since then, Gyanendra has appointed?and seen depart?two more Prime Ministers, endured months of violent protests against his royalist government, and watched the Maoist rebellion claim as many as 3,000 lives. Thus his decision to return Deuba to power was widely viewed as an admission of failure?and a victory for the parties that had finally united against the King...
Embryonic Rebellion Why states are revolting against the President's stem-cell policy...