Sentence examples for ruthless crackdown from inspiring English sources

Burundians took to the streets in protests which were met by a ruthless crackdown.

That is in part because the government's ruthless crackdown has made protest far more risky than in other uprisings.

Indonesia's own jihadists have been largely subdued over the past decade after a ruthless crackdown by the country's security forces.

It took the regime several months — and a ruthless crackdown, mass arrests, and Stalinesque trials — to quash it.

The assault on Puerta Caracas is part of what observers call the most ruthless crackdown unleashed by Maduro since coming to power in 2013.

Top leaders were jailed and sentenced to death, while the post-coup regime embarked on a ruthless crackdown that effectively drove the Brotherhood back underground.

Others, though, have never forgotten his ruthless crackdowns against opponents, some of whom were tortured or executed, and blame him for delaying the arrival of democracy.

The prospect of unrest and terrorist violence has led to ruthless crackdowns, including a raid last December when Chinese paramilitary forces killed 28 suspected militants in an operation that involved flushing the suspects out of a cave with flamethrowers.

Governments in Uzbekistan and other central Asian countries have often justified their ruthless crackdowns on dissent as a fight against Islamist extremism, but analysts say the claims may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, seeing many turn to radicalism due to a lack of other opportunities.

At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in ruthless police crackdowns, while the London-based company was allegedly manipulating voters' online prejudices on behalf of the ruling party.

Bashar al-Assad has also proven to be a ruthless dictator whose crackdown on internal dissent has left more than 5,000 Syrians dead.