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Ortega’s re-election to a third term, prohibited by Nicaragua’s constitution, completes the last stage of a “coup from above,” in which a government that came to power as a democratically elected political minority in 2006, uses its control of state institutions – the courts and electoral machinery, in particular – to undermine the rule of law.

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In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small minority are actual military actions.

And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out minority.

She clearly feels in a beleaguered minority.

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