Junta | Military Rule, Dictatorship & Autocracy | Britannica
WEBJunta, (Spanish: “meeting”), committee or administrative council, particularly one that rules a country after a coup d’etat and before a legal government has been established. The word was widely used in the 16th century to refer to …
Military junta - Wikipedia
WEBA military junta (/ ˈ h ʊ n t ə, ˈ dʒ ʌ n t ə / ⓘ) is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808. [1]
Myanmar’s military junta escalates terror tactics against civilians ...
WEBMar 27, 2024 · CNN investigation uncovers Myanmar military’s brutal and violent attacks on its people as junta faces increasing threats to its fragile hold on power
Myanmar civil war: Opponents vow ‘beginning of the end’ for junta …
WEBNov 28, 2023 · Almost three years on from its bloody coup, Myanmar’s military junta is facing the biggest threat to its hold on power as it fights wars on multiple fronts across the Southeast Asian nation. CNN ...
Myanmar’s Junta Recaptures Town That Was a Significant Gain for …
WEBApr 24, 2024 · By Richard C. Paddock. April 24, 2024. The Myanmar junta has recaptured the town of Myawaddy, an important trading hub on the border with Thailand, reversing a key victory for resistance soldiers ...
Myanmar’s Coup and Its Aftermath, Explained - The New York Times
WEBDec 9, 2022 · The junta has arrested more than 143 journalists as of December 2022 and shut down independent news outlets. In rural areas, soldiers have burned homes and villages, raped women, shot at fleeing ...
Is Myanmar's army reversing its losses? It's complicated - BBC
WEB4 days ago · A rebel group that took a key town lost it to the junta two weeks later. But there's more to the story.
The US military will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger
WEBApr 20, 2024 · The prime minister of Niger, appointed by the ruling military junta, Ali Lamine Zeine, and U.S. deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell, agreed on Friday that the two nations would begin to plan the withdrawal of American troops, the U.S. State Department told The Associated Press in an email Saturday. A U.S. official said there was no …
Fifty years after military junta, Greece still reflects divisions of ...
WEB3 days ago · In the past month, Greeks have been intensively discussing the nature of their democracy. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of the collapse in 1974 of the military junta which had dominated the ...
Malian group asks Supreme Court to annul junta's ban on political ...
WEBApr 22, 2024 · The Malian Supreme Court should annul the ruling junta's order to suspend political activities, a group of Malian political parties and civil society organisations said in an appeal on Monday.
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