Sentences with phrase «against the military dictatorship»

Speaking on Norwegian radio, she said Ms Suu Kyi won the prize because of her «role as a freedom fighter in Myanmar and against the military dictatorship».

It is public knowledge that Dasuki had served previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida but was against dictatorial regime of General Sani Abacha, before he sought asylum outside the country where he teamed up with other Nigerians in the Diaspora to campaign against that military dictatorship and entrenchment of democracy.

The producers of God's Not Dead takes on the Biblical epic with the low - budget, faith - based production Samson (2018, PG - 13) and 1987: When the Day Comes (South Korea, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the historic public outcry against the military dictatorship that led to the birth of South Korean democracy.

It was a massive groundswell of public protest against the military dictatorship of Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn and to demand the release of 13 students arrested by the military.

Not exact matches

Workers have a difficulty to fight against the plan because they have experienced corruption by illicit collusion between the government and capital from military dictatorship.

Vatican City (CNN)- The Vatican pushed back Friday against claims that Pope Francis failed to protect two fellow Jesuit priests who were kidnapped during Argentina's military dictatorship.

The Bush and Blair governments tacitly supported Mubarak's Egypt and Sharif's Pakistan, although they were both essentially restrictive military dictatorships, seen as a less evil bulwark against radical Islam.

Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the Cultural Revolution with archival footage from three other radical movements, all from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning military dictatorship.

For Oiticica, leisure — sheer fun — was an ethical imperative, a joyful protest against the oppressive realities of life in his home country, which had been under military dictatorship since 1964.

A 2002 lawsuit, Kiobel v. Shell, alleges that Shell «aided and abetted» the Nigerian military dictatorship in committing severe human rights abuses against members of the Ogoni people who were involved in a nonviolent movement to stop it from drilling for oil in their rich Niger River Delta homeland.

Or, do you think the death squads in Honduras, the CIA coup against Allende leading to the Pinochet regime in Chile, the military dictatorship in Argentina, the CIA orchestrated Contra attacks against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua after they overthrew the Samoza dictatorship, etc, are examples of proper governance?