From 15,000 to 30,000 dissidents, guerrillas and others viewed as dangerous to the dictatorships disappeared or were executed from 1976 to 1983, when civilian government resumed.
Groups representing dissident republican guerrillas still intent on violence denounced the I.R.A. for betraying republican principles and accepting British rule on the Irish island.
"We are very sad about this," said Maung Maung Aye, general secretary of the National Council of the Union of Burma, an umbrella group of dissidents and guerrillas based on the border.
Exxon had previously made an agreement with Maliki to undertake two drilling projects in southern Iraq, and Maliki, a former dissident and guerrilla fighter, threatened to cancel them if Exxon pursued the Kurdish deal.
Thorne — a dissident playwright and guerrilla leader of the revolutionary Citizens for Justice and Democracy, who has been released from prison and made a member of Parliament in an effort to undermine his populist mystique — shoots the president and first lady and seizes power.
Perhaps the biggest failure involved the disappearance of about 500 dissidents, leftists and suspected guerrillas during the 1960s and 1970s.
Having already ended its romance with the most notorious Islamic radicals, Khartoum set about mending relations with many of its neighbors, quietly cutting off its support to a variety of guerrilla and dissident groups throughout the region.
"Dirty War" comes from the events of the 1960s 1980s during which South American (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay) military and security forces and right-wing death squads hunted down and killed left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism.
He joins a guerrilla army of dissident Somalis only to find his life at risk from his Amhara-hating comrades in arms.
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