They then launched an uprising in pursuit of an independent Tuareg homeland in northern Mali.
THE National Transitional Council (NTC) grew out of a clutch of lawyers who launched an uprising in February in Libya's main eastern city, Benghazi.
The group, whose name means "western education is sinful", has killed thousands and abducted hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009.
He was the last of the nine so-called sons of Toussaint, who launched an uprising against French rule on 1 November 1954.
Only a few streets away, on a breezy evening in January, the night after the dictator of Tunisia fell, Karman and a small group of like-minded Yemenis launched an uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
He watched with a dispassionate eye the chaotic storming of the Tuileries, when the masses launched an uprising against the assembly, pushing the revolutionary government even further to the left.
But so far civilians appear wary of launching an uprising while there are still a large number of Fedayeen commandos in the city, which lies 150 miles south of Baghdad.
Correctly foreseeing that the Arab-dominated north would seek to oppress, exploit and marginalise the south, where traditional beliefs and Christianity prevailed, southern rebels launched an uprising known as Anyanya I.
But the original meaning of May Day reappeared at the darkest moments of the Nazi era, as when it was celebrated in the Warsaw ghetto which launched an uprising against the regime.
