Sentences with phrase «acheampong military government»

Pinochet was head of Chile's military government (1974 — 90).

Canadian and Malaysian officials met briefly with Pakistan's deposed leader, Nawaz Sharif who has been charged by the new military government with treason - a charge which could result in life in prison or death.

A four - member Commonwealth ministerial team meeting in Pakistan to assess the political situation has said that it wants a time - frame for the return of democracy to the country, and is offering the military government up to two years to achieve that goal.

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As Western countries distance themselves from the military government, Thailand has been busy courting regional allies.

Companies in Thailand may also follow their footsteps if the military government there goes ahead with implementing its heavy crypto taxation plans.

The Philippines under Marcos and Nicaragua under Somoza are examples of statist «third ways,» as was Peru under its military governments and Tanzania under Julius Nyerere.

«I see a lot of joy and celebration for Pope Francis, but I'm living his election with a lot of pain»: thus, the BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-2179479] reported the words of Graciela Yorio, the sister of Orlando Yorio — a priest who was kidnapped in May 1976 and tortured for five months during Argentina's last military government.

Moreover, Muslim influence in Nigerian public life is far disproportionate to the numbers: almost every major figure in the current military government, including the president and all but one cabinet member, is Muslim.

«The military government has made a mess of things,» he says.

The country's military government insists that the violence was quickly brought under control, and that not more than 130 people were killed.

a time which is no longer characterized by military Governments, but more by economic globalization and its — for many — disastrous economic and ecological consequences.18 In connection with the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency of ecological issues.

A good friend of mine in the American Military Government, Captain C. H. Bischoff, secured a Mercedes - Benz, painted on it the official AMG emblems and gave Martin written authorization to drive to Stuttgart, then on through the Soviet Zone.

The south was placed under the Interim Military Government of the United States.

Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a Christian group originally formed to bring humanitarian aid to the Burmese minorities displaced by ongoing persecution from their military government.

Israel has the structures of a Western democracy, with a representative government and courts, but the non-Israeli residents of the occupied territories are ruled by the military government.

Captain Koda is notorious for leading the torturing and maiming of civilians during the AFRC / PNDC military government and was instrumental in the military Coup d'état in the late 1970s that ousted the then civilian government of Dr. Hilla Limann.

After Mubarak gave up power, the interim military government held parliamentary elections that yielded an Islamist supermajority comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood and the extreme Islamist (Salafist) Alliance.

A chronic lack of trust has also fuelled escalation of the conflict between the interim military government and Morsy supporters, which erupted into shocking scenes of violence and brutality on Wednesday.

Their failure to defend the position of a democratically elected leader also signalled to the interim military government that the international community was prepared to tolerate democratic backsliding.

[218] Post-independence, the government and media often had a tense relationship, with private outlets closed during the military governments and strict media laws that prevent criticism of government.

Chiang was the son of Chiang Kai - shek, the leader of the Republic of China's Military Government from the 1930s to 1975 (from 1949 since the Chinese Civil War, Republic of China's central government moved to Taiwan).

Mubarak's lawyers have already declared their intention to summon the current head of the transitional military government to give evidence.

This group led the «NO» campaign in the UNIGOV referendum of 1978, ultimately bringing about the downfall of the Acheampong military government on 5 July 1978, and the restoration of multiparty democratic rule to the country in 1979.

Maybe because they only went from being under the boot of a quasi-military government to being under the boot of a fully military government?

On June 4, 1979, junior officers staged an uprising to free Rawlings from a possible execution after he had bungled an earlier attempt on May 15 1979 to overthrow General Frederick Akuffoâ $ ™ s military government.

Buhari, who like Obasanjo headed a military government before being elected civilian president, spent much of last year being treated for an undisclosed illness in London.

Detention without trial, almost all through the war, by the Gowon Federal Military Government.

«When I had the honour to lead a Military Government there were more Christians than Muslims in the Federal Executive Council and the Supreme Military Council.

Reports suggested the military government had confirmed an invitation for president Thein Sein to visit Britain, but the Foreign Office refused to confirm any invitation had been made.

Coincidentally, in same 1978, the oil boom period which started in 1971 had begun to decline with the then military government having nothing to show for the huge petro dollars that accrued to its coffers.

This system continued even during the Yakubu Gowon led Military government.

To be sure, that government was high on impunity (more than any military government before it); and had a quaint idea of mechanical «discipline», in the whip - coerced queues its War Against Indiscipline (WAI) programme decreed.

This arm characterizes democracy because in a military government you will have both the judiciary and the executive.

Tinubu only wants to corner the economy of Nigeria, using Buhari because he knows that he (Buhari) is weak and even at 41, his military government was ran by his deputy, Tunde Idiagbon.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

Observers see the move as a signal that the military government is trying to conform to global norms on the management of nuclear material as well as distance itself from a controversial figure regarded as the «father of the Islamic bomb.»

After weeks of protest, caused in part by perceptions of government corruption, Mubarak resigned in February 2011, replaced by an interim military government.

To start, the movie would have been better served if it had taken place after the military government left power when Carlos could have provided answers to long lingering mysteries with history at a safe distance.

They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom.

To top it all off, I got into serious trouble with the military government when I was caught red - handed putting up anti-government posters around Accra in the dead of night.

Englander's relatively short but immensely powerful first novel is set in 1976 at the start of the Dirty War, a 7 - year campaign by the Argentine military government against suspected subversives.

Jacob Hale is a Manhattan police officer rising in the ranks of the Safe Zone military government until a bank heist gone wrong lands him on suspension and under suspicion.

Thailand's military government, which seized power from an elected government in May, is considering a law that would ban the dog meat trade, and it has intensified enforcement of laws that ban slaughtering and transporting dogs without a license, the New York Times reported yesterday.

The newly installed military government may see cracking down on the dog trade as a way to enhance its image internationally.

Baltra also requires permits by the military government for overnight stays on the beach.

The artists — Htein Lin, Aung Khaing, Chan Aye, Phyu Mon, Zun Ei Phyu, Thynn Lei Nwe, Myint San Myint, and Khin Thethtar Latt (Nora)-- represent multiple generations of artists who share a common interest in working on subject matter and formats outside the realist schools of art favored by the previous military governments.

In the time of Japan's last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed «pleasure quarters,» where courtesans practiced prostitution and geishas entertained men by serving tea and food, dancing, performing music or chatting amiably.

, because that Military government don't care about us.