Word: putsch
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...fact, disillusioned with politics after years of futile activism. As a law student in Rangoon, he became involved with a troupe practicing a-nyient, a traditional Burmese form of comedy that often pokes fun at the country's military leaders. When those leaders reasserted their authority in a 1988 putsch, Htein Lin, along with many other student activists, fled into the jungle. While living in a rebel camp, he happened to meet an older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some...
Support for a putsch has been building in Washington to replace Maliki with Iyad Allawi, the former Prime Minister. Allawi hired the Republican lobbying firm of Barbour Griffith and Rogers to get American backing (though he subsequently tried to create some illusion of distance by having his political party technically hire the firm). The subtext of Allawi's message is, who cares about democracy and the will of the Iraqi people? I'm Washington's man, not Tehran's. Never mind that Allawi has little support among Iraqis...
...Nicolas Sarkozy - Napoleon III or Mick Jagger? "Sarko," the rock star, struts his stuff with gold chain and bared chest, hanging out with the high and mighty. The third Napoleon, French Emperor from 1852 to 1870, came to power in a putsch, installing an authoritarian monarchy...
...tribunal, handpicked by the junta, which had dissolved Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party for committing electoral fraud in last year's polls. In their defense, the ruling generals have promised to hold elections by the end of this year, and they point out that their putsch was met with almost no public outcry. That's true: Thaksin's popularity had nosedived by the end of his tenure, in part because of his autocratic style, and street protests against him last year still dwarf the current rallies against the junta...
...interim government has also drawn criticism for failing to quickly prove corruption by the former P.M., even though his alleged graft was a major rationale the generals gave for staging their putsch. (On Monday evening, a junta-appointed investigative committee announced it had ordered the freezing of Thaksin's domestic bank accounts, estimated at more than $1 billion.) More generally, many Thais blame the coup leaders for a series of economic missteps that dented Thailand's international reputation, as well as for scrapping the previous constitution and presenting a new draft that drew little from public consultation...