Now the regime insists it is committed to introducing multiparty democracy.
Russia, which protects the Abkhaz regime, insists that Georgia is planning to use Kodori to attack Abkhazia.
Korea's history, the regime insists, is the history of a child-race abused by adults Chinese, Japanese and American.
As The Economist went to press, the country was on the point of launching a long-range rocket carrying, the regime insists, only an innocuous satellite into orbit some time between April 12th and 16th.
Shahla Sherkat, the editor of a magazine specialising in women's issues, is charged with calling for the repeal of laws that enforce the hejab, the female head-covering that the regime insists on.
The regime insists rocket technology is central to its peaceful space programme, but the US, South Korea and Japan say the launches are being used to test ballistic missile technology.
After years of army rule and a decade of democracy sullied by corruption, nepotism and greed, the military regime insists locally elected councils are the first step to solving Pakistan's crisis of governance.
YET this regime insists on tearing services from the survivors and our soldiers' families.
