Belgian Congo Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...Nzansu's men fought on sporadically for five years more, and no record of his fate exists. The regime also faced resistance from within its own army, whose resentful African conscripts sometimes joined forces with the rebel groups they were supposed to be suppressing. The largest mutiny involved three thousand troops and an equal number of auxiliaries and porters, and continued for three years. “The rebels displayed a courage worthy of a better cause,” acknowledged the army's official history—which, remarkably, devoted fully one-quarter of its pages to the...
Indo-Pak Massacres Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...independent India, that the police were the main cause of their “misfortune.” They said that they could better defend themselves if the police were removed from the scene. With the exception of the Rawalpindi Central Kotwali police station, where Muslim constables appear to have mutinied against their officers, the constables appear to have taken their cue from their police and civilian superiors. There are parallels here again with major episodes of communal violence in postindependence India. Significantly, violence did not occur in March 1947 in such places...
Cambodia Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...1997 that further focused international attention on accountability for its atrocities. Son Sen and his family were executed, presumably under orders from Pol Pot. Ta Mok also became a target of Pol Pot. Although Ta Mok received assistance from some troops initially, they later mutinied against him. In 1998 Pol Pot died after a trial held by the remaining Khmer Rouge forces, for ordering the execution of Son Sen. The international community became increasingly concerned about the prosecution of Khmer Rouge leaders after Pol Pot's death. The negotiations...
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...the best known of which was the Young Ottomans, later called the Young Turks, which evolved into the Committee of Union and Progress ( CUP ). After 1902 the Young Turk movement, which many dhimmi supported, took hold, mostly at military schools and army centers, and mutinies began to break out across the empire. In June 1908 several officers, including Enver Bey, who was twenty-seven, led an insurrection outside of Salonika; it led to a coup that the sultan was unable to put down. On 24 July 1908 he assented to the Young Turks’ demand that he...
South American Southern Cone Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...cut off bank credits, and prevailed upon international organizations and allied governments not to lend money to Chile. Social and economic mobilization on the Left intensified as well, with seizures of land, takeovers of factories, and appeals to enlisted military personnel to mutiny. Against this backdrop of instability, the military concluded that the country was threatened by internal enemies and that elected officials were incapable of defending the nation against the threat of Communists and left-wing terrorists. On 11 September 1973 Allende was...
Burma Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...between Military Intelligence and the Armed Forces allowed Senior General Than Shwe to remain in power during the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. One of the most pressing issues for the SLORC was the ongoing civil war and the desperate need for hard currency. When a mutiny inside the Communist Party of Burma broke out in 1989 , Khin Nyunt realized that this was an opportunity for the SLORC to negotiate cease-fire agreements with most of the ethnic minority groups, (apart from the Karen National Union), and to secure an end to their opposition to...
