Sentences with phrase «military coup of»

Abousfian Abdelrazik was jailed in Sudan in 1989 after the successful military coup of Omar Al - Bashir.

Emma Watson will star opposite Rush's Daniel Brühl in Colonia, a political thriller set against the backdrop of the Chilean military coup of 1973, reports Variety.

The Harry Potter star will play a woman caught up in the Chilean military coup of 1973 in a film directed by Florian Gallenberger

Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.

The enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard - scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts.

After the first military coup of 1966 and under the short - lived administration of the then Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi, Decree 34 of 1966 was promulgated abrogating the federal system of government and substituting same with unitary system of government.

During that period 31st December was declared a public holiday and celebrated as such in commemoration of the military coup of 31st December, 1981.

This questioning led to a reaction, which preceded but was later emboldened by the military coup of 1964, and consisted of internal repression, manipulation of the electoral system, and isolation from international Presbyterian networks.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

Mugabe — the longserving president of Zimbabwe — was put under military control in what amounted to a coup ending his authoritarian rule.

Is this a coup or — as the military has suggested — merely a matter of «targeting criminals around» Mugabe?

The recent military takeover of the capital — which generals insist is not a coup — has made made the problem even worse.

It shut down when it became the center of fighting in a military coup by Greek nationalists, and then part of a demilitarized zone in 1974.

Thailand's military coup has recently prompted a period of diplomatic reorientation.

In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.

On Monday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed a seemingly staggering intelligence coup: Israeli operatives had penetrated a secret Iranian military facility in Tehran and spirited away tens of thousands of detailed files on the Iranian nuclear program.

As a missionary kid growing up in Guatemala, I survived the destructive effects of a massive earthquake and a major military coup.

In a similar way, military coups that changed power at the top were often incapable of controlling events and people at the base of society.

In Guatemala, the CIA - organized coup in 1954 began a period of ruthless military rule that still continues.

In a crackdown allegedly targeting what Turkey calls the Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization, tens of thousands of judges, journalists, military personnel and others have been jailed following the attempted coup.

I was born in Liberia, West Africa, where my father served in the Special Security Service of President Samuel Doe (no relation), who had come to power through a violent military coup ten years earlier.

Nonetheless, military coups, however decorous, are not part of the American tradition, nor that of the officer corps, which might well worry about how the citizenry would react to a move toward open military dictatorship.

This would clearly not be the Zealots» dream of a Jewish kingdom restored by a military coup against Roman power.

They oppose a new wave of military coups preferring «a permanent state of military control over civilian government, while still preserving formal democracy.

As we remember the dead of September 11, 2001, let us also remember those who died in the military coup in Chile of September 11, 1973.

There, following a military coup in June 2009, dozens of farmer leaders have been assassinated by private and state security forces, as they have tried to resist being evicted from their lands by companies in charge of a rapidly expanding palm oil monoculture.

Dangote enjoyed GON favoritism in the form of importing rights throughout the military regimes and coups of the 1980s and 90s.

Wolde, 65, whose plight has drawn the attention of Amnesty International and the International Olympic Committee, had been a captain in the Palace Guard of Haile Selassie before the emperor was deposed in 1974 by a military coup.

In 2002, a group of right - wingers, businessmen and sections of the military launched a coup against Chavez.

And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went to War College in the United States before the military handed over to the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at the end of 1983.

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.

On the December 1983 coup d'etat, Dasuki admitted that he and two young military officers (who are still alive) «travelled to Jos to brief Major General Buhari, who was then the GOC of 3rd Armoured Division on the furtherance of the planning of the 1983 coup which made Buhari the major beneficiary of the ouster of the elected President Shehu Shagari.»

The allegation raised public concerns about a military coup in the event of Mugabe's death while in office.

The NRC later metamorphosed into the Supreme Military Council (SMC), but a palace coup saw General Acheampong being replaced by Lieutenant - General F.W.K. Akuffo in I978 as the Chairman of the SMC and Head of State of Ghana.

A close ally of former Burkinabe President, Blaise Compaore has been named the country's new leader after a military coup.

Fernando Mathei, Evelyn's father, was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, while Alberto Bachelet, Michelle's father, opposed 1973 coup and was imprisoned and tortured for several months until his death in 1974 at the hands of the dictatorship.

While their economies are relatively strong, these 12 states have very low state legitimacy (which includes democracy, corruption, political participation, and government effectiveness), fail to protect human rights and the rule of law (including press freedom, civil liberties, and political freedoms), lack a monopoly on the legitimate use of force (including internal conflict, military coups, riots, and protests), and have highly factionalized elites (including power struggles, flawed elections, and defectors).

This particular part of the agenda is reportedly manned by one Captain Edmund Kojo Koda (rtd) who played a major role in the 1979 military Coup d?

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Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his government was subsequently overthrown by a GAF military operation codenamed «Operation Cold Chop» coup while Nkrumah was abroad with Zhou Enlai in the People's Republic of China for a fruitless mission to Hanoi in Vietnam to help end the Vietnam War on 24 February 1966 by GAF led by Col. Emmanuel K. Kotoka.

According to an article by Ria Novsti the Russian Foreign Ministry claims that the recently announced US Financial Aid to the new Kiev Government is illegal because the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits financial assistance to the government of any state whose legally elected president was overthrown as a result of a military coup or an unlawful decision.

Might this be the next step in the slow coup that will see the military retain its power and influence in Egyptian public life, thwarting the forces of true revolution?

If you can get control of enough of the military, then a coup can happen.

That move was seen as an attempt to position Grace Mugabe to continue a Mugabe dynasty of power - This prompted the military to step in and place Mr. Mugabe under house arrest, in events that stopped short of an outright coup de tat.

In case of this coup, if it had been successful, the military would have had to rely heavily on the old guard judges to get their way.

In December, president Mahamadou Issoufou announced the arrest of senior military officers for allegedly plotting a coup.

On 31st December, 1981, the Government of Ghana, established under the constitution, 1979 was removed from power in a military coup d'etat.

Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to Zimbabwe military take over of Mugabe's government o Tuesday Atiku said the coup was not the solution for problems...