Ukraine's problems are compounded by the fact that many men under arms are ethnic Russians, though analysts have thus far played down the prospect of mutinies or defections, arguing that ethnicity in the Ukrainian army is not as powerful an idea as it was in the Balkans for example.
Fearing arrest or an attack by thugs, the 1,400 others in Dhinkia facing criminal charges dare not leave the village.Of India's million mutinies, many involve the emotive issue of land.
It has so far held together, despite several mutinies.
He has since relied on foreign intervention to fend off ethnic tensions, mutinies, banditry and spill-overs from conflicts in neighbouring Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ever since the Tiananmen protests of 1989, the Communist Party has been haunted by fears that the million mutinies it faces daily could again coalesce into a broad-based opposition movement.In this section Spinning the wrong 'Un Noynoy's welcome stand Prosecutors or persecutors?
The real danger of bloodshed will come if the armed forces split, or if there are serious mutinies among the lower ranks.
Democracy is India's way of prosecuting the struggles V.S. Naipaul wrote about in his 1992 book, "India: A Million Mutinies Now".The outcome of the 1999 general election, a drawn-out affair that began on September 5th and ended on October 3rd, does not look much like a mutiny.
A recent report by Chatham House, a London-based think-tank, points out that soldiers in the north-east are suffering from malfunctioning equipment, low morale, desertions and mutinies.
This has led to riots by disabled SPLA veterans and mutinies by soldiers.
The results, published in Nature, cannot be translated into a prognosis for the effects that global warming may have on ancient grudges and new mutinies.
He has had to cope with mutinies, banditry and the spillover from conflicts in neighbouring Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
