He is consistently portrayed as a rebel in the Pythagorean tradition, in one case a democratic rebel who challenged the aristocratic Pythagorean leadership in Croton (Iamb. VP 257), but more commonly as the thinker who initiated Pythagorean study of mathematics and the natural world.
Mr. Connor stepped down after a group of Democratic senators rebelled against him, accusing him of assisting Tom Golisano, a third-party candidate for governor, over H. Carl McCall, the Democratic candidate.
The specter of a violent tribal conflict within the rebel ranks touches on a central fear of the Western nations backing the Libyan insurrection: that the rebels' democratic goals could give way to a tribal civil war over Libya's oil resources.
The Rwandan genocide and subsequent Congo wars brought further instability, with the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda establishing itself in the centre of the park.
It also deployed two thousand U.S. troops to advise the Syrian Democratic Forces, a rebel militia that ousted ISIS from its capital, in northern Raqqa, in October.
Last week, she says, Congolese government troops moved into Bukala only to be confronted by units from the rebel Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
All but one of those rebels are Democratic, which is not coincidental.
Mr Chávez claims to be "neutral" in the conflict between Colombia's democratic state and the rebels, who rely on kidnapping and drugs.
The leader of the Alliance for Democratic Change and other rebels said they feared that the peacekeeping force would aid the Déby government, which in the past had counted on French assistance.
Kerry said more must be done to combat Congo-based rebels, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, known by its French acronym, FDLR, whose members are accused of perpetrating the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.
