Sentences with phrase «armed uprising in»

Extension cables loop upwards toward an installation in the darkened attic, where an immersive installation remounts an account of the 1989 armed uprising in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, when the Bougainville Resistance Army rebelled against both Papua New Guinean occupation and the island's Australian - owned copper mine, Conzinc Rio Tinto.

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Kyrgyz Republic By Simon Watkins Kurmanbek Bakiyev After a week of defying a provisional government that seized power in an armed uprising that left at least 84 people dead, the Kyrgyz Republic's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, resigned and...

Four months later he had been detained on charges that large quantities of explosives and leaflets calling for a national armed uprising were found in his house.

And in Michoacán, Dr. Jose «The Doctor» Mireles rousts a popular uprising known at Autodefensas, armed citizens who move from town to town driving out members of the Knights Templar.

Mau Mau Uprising Begins October 1952 The Land Freedom Army, a growing movement against white colonial rule, launches the first armed liberation uprising in Africa.

I remember, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call and we detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages through — it was Facebook Messenger in this case — to each side of the conflict, basically telling the Muslims, «Hey, there's about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place.»