Dictatorship
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We should understand that this time-tested script for establishing or enforcing a
dictatorship
exists – but so does a counter-strategy for opening up a closed society.
Globalization has paved the way to a world dominated by the
dictatorship
of emotions – and of ignorance.
Suppose that US diplomats had discovered that democrats living under a brutal military
dictatorship
were negotiating with junior officers to stage a coup to restore democracy and the rule of law.
The daughter of the founder of independent Burma, Suu Kyi is now engaged in perhaps the most delicate task of her remarkable political career – trying to engineer a true democratic transition from decades of military
dictatorship.
For Syria’s Kurds, the struggle against more than four decades of the Assad family’s Ba’athist
dictatorship
became particularly harsh after 2004, when security forces killed dozens of unarmed protesters in the northeastern town of Qamishli.
For the Kurds, the widening conflict meant that, in addition to fighting a brutal dictatorship, we were now confronted by Al Qaeda militants seeking to establish an Islamic emirate in the Middle East.
With an oddball president who led a failed coup only to return to impose his brand of Cuban socialism cum Latin American tinhorn
dictatorship
cum political evangelism, poor Venezuela seems destined for a fall.
“Brussels,” after all, is a dictatorship, they say, and the British – or, rather, the English – are standing up for democracy.
All of this is taking place in a nation where Communist ideology remains strong and that remains in many respects a military
dictatorship
which threatens to conquer Taiwan by force, as well as uses North Korea, Pakistan, and Libya as stalking horses for weapons development.
But, when assessing Lee’s legacy, we should also heed the words of Kim Dae-jung, who was jailed and almost killed for opposing South Korea’s dictatorship, before becoming the country’s democratically elected president in 1998.
The problem, as Khodorkovsky’s conviction demonstrated, is that
dictatorship
usually seems to be trumping law.
The first is secular
dictatorship.
First,
dictatorship
itself is ugly and unacceptable; second, secular
dictatorship
excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system.
Of course, an Islamic
dictatorship
is also possible.
As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic
dictatorship
is ugly and destructive.
Such a
dictatorship
would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.
But four decades of military-based
dictatorship
may be enough for Libyans, a majority of whom never really benefited from their country’s wealth or potential.
Getting “stuck in transition” is a third possible scenario, with Libya remaining in a “gray zone” – neither a fully-fledged democracy nor a dictatorship, but “semi-free.”
But Libya is not the only country that has tried to move from
dictatorship
to democracy with weak institutions and strong tribal identities.
Either country, or both, could offer Libya successful transition models, erecting an important obstacle to military
dictatorship
or civil war.
Cory Aquino motivated ordinary Filipinos to peaks of daring and selflessness at a time when their spirit had almost been broken by a 14-year
dictatorship.
Now the world is suddenly asking whether Burma (Myanmar), after six decades of military dictatorship, has embarked on a genuine political transition that could end the country’s pariah status.
There is still a certain degree of nostalgia on the far right for Fanco’s
dictatorship.
It is right for a democracy to repudiate a dictatorship, and the new Spanish law is cautiously drafted, but it is better to leave people free to express even unsavory political sympathies, for legal bans don’t foster free thinking, they impede them.
The murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s bravest and best journalists, a woman who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya, is final proof that President Putin has delivered nothing more than a run of the mill
dictatorship
with the usual contempt for law.
Nor is it a communist dictatorship, with the likes of Joseph Stalin using the threat of the Gulag to discourage political expression.
Critics fear the emergence of a new and unaccountable dictatorship, with President Xi Jinping becoming “Chairman Mao 2.0.”
Suharto came to power in 1966, establishing a quasi-military
dictatorship
and encouraging Indonesians to “enrich themselves.”
The country’s activist mothers and grandmothers follow in the Latin American tradition of predecessors like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who in 1977 began to march in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to protest the mass disappearance of children under the military
dictatorship.
They marched weekly for years, forcing public discussion of human rights abuses under the
dictatorship.
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