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EarthRights International - Give Green, Give the Gift of Earth Rights
Burma for one month as they risk their lives to document the abuses by the military junta and its corporate partners who continue to profit from destructive natural resource exploitation. A $100 ...
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EarthRights International - ERI Calls on Oil and Gas Industry to Help Stop Violence in Burma
The military has recently responded with violence, killing at least several protestors (including monks) and arresting ... company in Burma, has only issued a statement. “The corporations who can influence the military junta know who they are. They must pressure the regime to maintain peace, and respect the ...
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ERA | Environmental Testimonies 12
Shell, Agip, Texaco, Mobil, Chevron, etc., the military regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar responded in the language it understands best violence. The ... became a reminder of sorrow and mourning as soldiers acting on the orders of the military junta opened fire on unarmed youths, sending an official under estimate of seven persons to their ...
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US Complicity in Pushing Aside Aristide - Opinion Forum - Global Policy Forum
From 1915-1934, Haiti was under US military occupation. After the US left Haiti in 1934, the ... military. Dumarsais Estimé, who replaced him in August of that year, was forced out of office by a military junta in October 1950. Paul Magloire, a member of that junta ... junta and was forced to flee the country. His replacement, Leslie Manigat was also forced from office by a military ...
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Costa Rica - Democracy: an Overview
After ruling for eighteen months, the Junta fulfilled its agreement of reinstating the people's choice for a leader ... of the Presidents of the country: out of fifty three leaders, only three have been military men and six can be considered dictators. Most Latin American countries can't affirm ...
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Costa Rica - The Civil War of 1948
He also insisted in remaining in power of the country for 18 months, through a military junta. He didn't betray this promise, because exactly 18 months after rising up to ... passed on the office to the candidate elected by the people, President Otilio Ulate. The military junta established extremely important institutions and reforms that clearly indicated a Socialist tendency. This temporary ...
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February 2007 - mongabay.com
At several points during this time, the people have taken to the streets to peacefully protest the military ... % of the vote. Sadly, regardless of their promises, the military junta had no intention of relinquishing their power, and ...
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Alan Rabinowitz - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Quicktime.] lan Rabinowitz isn't afraid of the village strongman or a military dictatorship. He shrugs off 600-mile (966-kilometer) treks through malaria-infested jungles. That's ... , too, with resentments of their own, were local police and federal forestry officers from the military junta that rules the country once known as Burma. These fractious groups had come together for ...
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Gold Mining Polluting Myanmar Tiger Reserve
Myanmar Tiger Reserve January 11, 2007 — By Michael Casey, Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military junta is allowing gold mines to pollute the world's largest wild tiger reserve in northwest ... Kachin Development Networking Group, a coalition of NGOs, also accused the government of doubling its military presence in the area, the Hukaung Valley. The government signed a peace pact with the ...
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OneWorld.net / In depth / Human rights
(Democratic Republic of)] [Refugees] [Civil society] [Governance] [Arms & military] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] Banished in Burma [photoessay] 24.04.2008 The Burmese military's reign of terror -- which has displaced 2 ... to endorse a constitution that took a decade and a half to be drafted. The military junta, however, seems to have its own plans to swing the tide in its favour. Story ...
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