Sentence examples for repressive campaign from inspiring English sources

Before his presidency, he commanded a military base in Zacapa, in eastern Guatemala, leading a repressive campaign against rebel guerrillas.

But residents say the army has conducted a repressive campaign that has killed civilians while failing to contain the Islamist extremists.

Since the fall of Allende, the reigning juntas of most Latin American countries have mounted a brutally repressive campaign against any manifestation of leftist activity, and have applied censorship savagely.

It ordered General Vides Casanova and General García, both former Salvadoran defense ministers who worked intimately with American advisers, to pay $54.6 million to three victims of the repressive campaign they helped direct during the 1980's.

Beijing's repressive campaign has also extended to academia.

I followed the repressive campaigns against Soviet dissidents, and I was aware that Jews suffered from state-initiated persecution.

Despite the promises from Mao, he said, the Chinese government carried out "a series of repressive and violent campaigns" through the decades, including what the Chinese called "patriotic re-education" and "strike hard" campaigns after the protests last year.

The event spurred Benenson to submit a full-page article in The Observer newspaper entitled "The Forgotten Prisoners," in which he promoted an "Appeal for Amnesty," a yearlong letter-writing campaign to repressive governments on behalf of what he termed "prisoners of conscience".

My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.

Because many Arab governments are repressive, the logic of the campaign goes, they are ultimately vulnerable to upheaval and potentially volatile.

Samutsevich's opening statement, read by her lawyer, included a stark warning: "Our criminal case is political censorship from the side of the authorities, the start of a campaign of authoritarian, repressive measures aimed at lowering the level of political activism and provoking a feeling of fear among citizens who hold opposition views".