Word: oppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live by Jewish values...We cannot live by them and oppress people," Aloni said. "An army cannot face people who stand up for their rights...
Cooper said the complete segregation of the South African school system makes education far more difficult for Blacks and "coloured" residents. Education has become not a tool for learning, but another way for the Soweto government to oppress South Africa's indigenous people, he said. But he said this same segregation has worked towards its own destruction...
...problems they see with their societies and politics. Scholars have suggested that the strange and bizzare events such as deaths and disappearances that mark Latin American novels are not as fictitious as they seem to North Americans, and are, in fact, a means of exposing the regimes that oppress their countries without being obvious...
Israel is an a quandary of state-threatening proportions. As Shimon Peres pointed out in a recent interview, either Israel admits the Palestinians to full citizenship in order to remain democratic but losing the notion of a Jewish state or it continues to oppress them and as a result becomes an illiberal regime...
Waldorf says that the Afrikaaners do not care what the United States or other countries think of their treatment of Blacks. "Their view is that this our business, and we will oppress Blacks as we want," he says. "International pressure has virtually no effect...