Word: rebellions
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...years of colonialism essentially destroyed the social and political structures that had kept tribal peace for centuries. By 1959 the aggrieved Hutu majority rose up in rebellion; in some villages, machete-wielding gangs set upon the Tutsi and hacked off their feet, cutting them down to size. The Belgians, pushed by the wave of independence sweeping the continent, abruptly abandoned their Tutsi agents and sided with the Hutu majority. Having inflamed the Hutu's resentment of the Tutsi elite, the retreating colonizers left the minority to the mercies of the mob. Thousands of Tutsi fled into exile in Uganda, where...
Amidst this dark, frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...
...date of liberation approached over the past few weeks, the curse of violence grew across the land. It looked as if hundreds of thousands of black South Africans would be too frightened to exercise their hard-won right to vote -- and the country might dissolve into full-scale rebellion, shattering hopes of building a just nation. More than 20,000 citizens have died in the past 10 years, most of them in the rivalry between Inkatha and Mandela's African National Congress...
...fighters and asked them to take a closer look. Though there had been no reported violations of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq since January 1993, Iraqi helicopters had been a problem in the past, when Saddam Hussein used them to suppress the Kurdish rebellion that erupted after the Gulf War ended in 1991. The crews of the F-15Cs twice flew past the copters and identified them as Russian-made Hinds flown by the Iraqi military. The fateful, terse order came back from the AWACS to fire. Moments later, the blasted helicopters, each of them struck...
...think large institutions faced with rebellion often will look at ways to mitigate those," says Wolf, who is now a fellow at the Institute of Politics. "It may be that both Harvard and MIT found a fairly inexpensive way of trying to respond to the criticism which was not only in the University but in the community...