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Most Egyptians want the soldiers to leave politics and return to their barracks.
And, in 2012, the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer trials – which resulted in the incarceration of hundreds of military officers, including several generals, for plotting a coup against the government – seemed to guarantee civilian rule once and for all; the military was back in the barracks.
Otherwise, Egypt’s generals will not be returning to their barracks anytime soon.
The onus now is on Suu Kyi to do what is needed to keep the army in its barracks.
Several hundred dissidents have been detained at military barracks for up to a week at a time.
When faced with the choice of leaving the tanks in their barracks or calling them out onto the streets, he opted for a peace and later accepted the new reality that people in East Germany had created with so much courage.
The world of the Cold War is gone, as are schools and factories organized like barracks, authoritarian trade unions, gay bashing, and women’s obligation to receive permission from their husbands before being able to work or open a bank account.
As calls in the US intensify in clamoring for military retaliation against Iran for its assumed involvement in the attacks on the US barracks in Dahran, Saudi Arabia last year, the sober assessment of the West’s strategy that Madeleine Albright seems to favor may be derailed.
Then he announced a plan to replace the tree-lined Gezi Park in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with a replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks that would house a shopping mall, sparking massive popular protests.
As military rule became the norm in Africa in the 1970’s, northern army officers imposed an authoritarian and predatory mode of governance on the country, a vicious grip that was loosened only when a resurgent civil society forced them to return to the barracks in 1999.
But this time the soldiers have remained in their barracks, for the simple reason that an awakened populace, an active civil society, and a free and vibrant media would not tolerate another venture into politics by the army.
Another crack appeared with the 1983 Hezbollah attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which triggered an abrupt US withdrawal from Lebanon.
When the going gets tough, no one turns to the military barracks anymore.
But something other than this "order of the barracks" is possible.
They know that elected politicians are prone to graft, but now refuse blatant disenfranchisement and the formation of governments like Abhisit’s, which was brokered in an army barracks.
The violence that had been widespread in previous Bangladeshi elections was entirely absent, with the security services’ professionalism in policing the elections – and the army’s willingness to return voluntarily to its barracks – playing a key role.
Then came the bombings of the US barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the USS Cole in 2000.
The protesters’ main demands were the restoration of Egypt’s fragile democratic institutions, the release of political prisoners, and the army’s return to its barracks.
And following the bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut, Reagan was quick to retreat from Lebanon.
One could vaguely distinguish four immense blocks of small houses, back to back, barracks or hospital blocks, geometric and parallel, separated by three large avenues which were divided into gardens of equal size.
Not a gleam shone from the closed shutters, the house fronts slept, with the heavy sleep of snoring barracks.
It would be enough if the workman and the peasant in the barracks were to remember their origin.
Doctor Slammer and his friends repaired to the barracks, and Mr. Winkle, accompanied by Mr. Snodgrass, returned to their inn.
The hands engaged in the actual work of building the railroad lived in huge barracks near by, or in temporary cabins or tents.
He led her through the long lines of dark shops planted in and among the ruins of palaces, whose builders had been long since forgotten, and about the straggling; barracks, past knots of fantastically attired soldiers, who hung their day's marketing from the muzzle of the Brown Bess or flint-lock; and then he showed her the mausoleum of the kings of Gokral Seetarun, under the shadow of the great temple where the children of the sun and moon went to worship, and where the smooth, black stone bull glared across the main square at the cheap bronze statue oi Colonel Nolan's predecessor an offensively energetic and very plain Yorkshireman.
They will therein find portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of cabarets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less faithful than in the history of M. Anquetil.
Here are the palaces of Louis XIV., long barracks for courtiers, stiff, cold, tiresome.
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