After a 16-month occupation, the firehouse reopened.
The one notable exception to this is Kuwait, where most people hold bitter memories of Iraq's seven-month occupation.
In 2010, members of the Hito native clan staged a six-month occupation of Hangaroa, claiming the property had been taken from their ancestors illegally.
Bornholm's fraught 11-month occupation by Russian troops left almost as powerful a mark on the local psychology as the five-year German invasion that preceded it.
They include Roman Catholic priests (who always tended to be anti-Rwandan), academics and businessmen, as well as the legions of jobless young men who hang around the poorer districts, ranting at Rwanda's 18-month "occupation".
The government is seeking to silence an aggressive and sometimes violent opposition, which it says has continued to plot against it since a two-month occupation of parts of Bangkok by "red shirt" protesters was crushed by force on May 19.
The deputy mayor sat with Abou Zeid on Timbuktu's crisis committee, a body set up to liaise between previous civilian authorities and the new Islamist rulers during the 10-month occupation.
Sebageni says three of his friends "disappeared" over the course of the 15-month occupation of the Rutshuru territory in eastern DRC by the M23 movement, a mainly ethnic-Tutsi force who mutinied from the Congolese army in 2012.
They claimed the island "in the name of Indians of all tribes," and during their 19-month occupation Ms. Mankiller visited them frequently and raised money for their cause.
