Innumerable sexual atrocities were committed against Sinhala women during two Sinhala youth insurrections in the south of the island and there are reports of soldiers beating and/or sexually abusing their wives, their lovers and sex workers during rest and recreation leave.
We have witnessed political assassinations, insurrections, the flight of former president Salinas and the jailing of his brother, and seen alarming evidence that narcotics money has vastly aggravated Mexico's traditional corruption.
AS POPULAR insurrections go, it is a modest affair.
To settle the matter, guardsmen point out that their position is safeguarded by the American constitution, which calls for the raising of militias "to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions".In this section Peter Galbraith's smaller stage More oil, anyone?
This makes the Naxalites hard to treat in the way that India has treated its other insurrections: as military threats to be dealt with by force often brutally so.Even recognising that, the official response to Mr Singh's wake-up call from the governments of the affected Indian states has been dismal.
Reasons one and two above are obviously anachronistic: militias composed of private gun owners are no longer useful in repelling invasions or suppressing insurrections; they are more likely to be the insurrectors.
Demography is just one reason why Ethiopia's foreign well-wishers, who keep the economy afloat, are again getting nervous.As food gets scarcer again, small bands of guerrillas in the south and east, most of them no more than cattle rustlers and displaced people, could turn local tensions into insurrections.
First, of course, it is useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections.
Japan's stagger from one party-finance scandal to another.Third, these are insurrections of the social-media generation.
He usually grants them, encouraging the abductions to continue and exacerbating the PA's deepening fiscal crisis.Lawless in GazaHis own security services not only cannot cope but, perhaps at the prodding of local bosses, are causing their own insurrections.
Often they have not been, so the continent now has about a dozen major wars and twice as many rumbling insurrections.
