The phrase "armed repression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the use of military or police force to suppress dissent or maintain control over a population.
Example: "The government's response to the protests was marked by armed repression, leading to widespread condemnation from human rights organizations."
Alternatives: "military suppression" or "forceful oppression".
In the Abobo district, though, where Mr. Gbagbo focused his bloody campaign of armed repression against Ouattara supporters, there was jubilation.
Even if Mr. Gbagbo agreed to step down, officials for Mr. Ouattara said they would insist on him being prosecuted — either at home or abroad — for the extended campaign of armed repression he waged against opponents for four months after the election.
Her research interests include state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence, and the development of civil society in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on Latin America.
Celebrations of the anniversary have been muted by catastrophic floods that killed at least 5,000, armed rebellion and repression.
The monks' demonstrations last September, and the violent repression by armed troops, looked like a small-scale version of the 1988 uprising, in the same rainwashed streets.
From 1966 to 1969 China experienced one of the largest political upheavals in the twentieth century, during which close to 1.6 million people died due to political persecution, armed battles, and state repression.
At the time, however, there was little concrete evidence of this progress: instead, rights groups documented mounting abuses and a dangerously narrowing political space marked by assassinations, arbitrary arrests, attacks by unidentified armed groups, and violent repression of the opposition.
Under Farinacci, the Fascist squadre d'azione (armed squads) engaged in brutal repression and violence, often incurring Mussolini's disfavour, especially by forcibly taking over Cremona (July 1922).
A murderous guerrilla insurgency unleashed by the Maoist Shining Path and a small Marxist rival was met by indiscriminate repression by the armed forces.
By early 1998 Mr. Milosevic, as many feared, began to stir again, this time in the Serbian province of Kosovo, where a large Albanian majority began an armed rebellion against years of repression by the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police.
Iran has defied United Nations Security Council resolutions to halt its uranium enrichment and has strongly supported the Syrian government's sharp repression of an armed uprising, a crackdown that Mr. Ban has repeatedly condemned.
