Unrest has continued, as have the violent crackdowns.
Amid increasingly violent crackdowns, the movement – and its demands – escalated.
Violent crackdowns, mass arrests and crippling economic decline have robbed them of hope.
Their largely peaceful demonstrations were met by violent crackdowns by state security forces.
Indeed, the administration has watched violent crackdowns in Bahrain, Yemen and other Arab countries without intervening.
Demonstrators expressing political and economic grievances faced violent crackdowns by their countries' security forces.
Violent crackdowns had gradually eased since the election of the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, in 1997.
In response to the violent crackdowns in Libya and Bahrain, the Foreign Office revoked their export licences.
He spoke as the authorities in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen were waging violent crackdowns on uprisings inspired in part by the Egyptian revolution.
There have been numerous reports over the years of human rights abuses and violent crackdowns by Indonesian authorities against a long running pro-independence movement in West Papua.
For years the Kremlin has supported Mr. Lukashenko, praising elections that independent monitors called rigged, while also ignoring violent crackdowns on the opposition.
