Word: revoltion
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...school to earn a place at Dili's Universidade da Paz in 2002, the same year his homeland gained independence. Soares chose to study law, believing that a strong legal system was a key institution for the young nation. But all that changed last April, when the army revolt ignited clashes between Dili residents from the country's east and west. "Before the crisis, east was where the sun rose and west was where the sun set," says Soares. "Now, differences between these two groups, which I never even knew about growing up, have been politicized." In late April, Soares...
...March-May 2006: An army revolt sparked by tensions between rival soldiers leads to riots that cause more than 150,000 people to flee their homes. An Australian-led force returns to East Timor just one year after international peacekeepers had left...
...account of the early years of former University President Lawrence H. Summers—was filling bookstores while at the same time Harvard professors were filling University Hall to protest their president. An unprecedented no-confidence vote would soon fuel the faculty’s revolt, and some observers thought Summers might not survive...
...once again shut out of most senior government and military positions. With the defeat of Saddam's army in the 1991 Gulf War, Shi'ites saw a chance to rise against the dictator. But they received no protection from the allied forces, and Saddam was able to smash the revolt. By some estimates, more than 300,000 Shi'ites were killed; many were buried in mass graves. For the rest of his reign, Saddam kept the Shi'ites firmly under his thumb. Several popular clerics were killed, including Muqtada's father. Saddam ordered the murder of Sunnis too, but there...
...being decadent and in terminal decline as is often thought, late Mughal Delhi was a thriving city, full of poets, artists and traders. Religiously eclectic, Delhi culture freely blended Hindu and Muslim influences. Although Indian nationalist memory glorifies cities along the Ganges like Kanpur as the centers of the revolt, Dalrymple suggests that Delhi was the true locus of the 1857 uprising. Drawing on contemporary accounts from the Indian and British sides, he paints a vivid portrait of a city under siege, giddy with the thrill of being independent, but faced with food shortages, anarchy, and the imminent likelihood...