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Indeed, Bin Laden’s death should open the international community’s eyes to the source of his movement: repressive Arab regimes and their extremist ideologies.
Given decades of repressive rule, and tens of thousands of disappeared Iraqis, there are already endemic problems of verification.
As anti-Musharraf sentiment grew within Pakistan, and repressive measures aimed at the judiciary and the press cost him ever more support among the intelligentsia, his hold on power began to slip.
Bulgaria’s Betrayal of EuropeWhen Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind.
Hadjiev and his family fled to Europe in 2001, escaping one of the world’s most repressive regimes: the absolutist dictatorship of the late Saparmurat Niyazov, who fancied himself “Turkmenbashi,” the father of all Turkmen.
Repressive policies have never succeeded in eliminating demand for drugs.
Moreover, in a repressive climate, drug users who avoid arrest are more likely to face increased discrimination, reducing their motivation to take measures to protect their own health and the health of those around them.
When its black majority was finally given a say in governance, it elected an African National Congress (ANC) government that, by refraining from confiscating and nationalizing private property held by the privileged minority, distinguished the country from many others, in Africa and elsewhere, that have emerged from repressive colonial rule.
The recent protests may seem insignificant compared to the scale of Putin’s repressive resources and the spectacle of his inauguration.
The biggest failures of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia may not have been their repressive politics but their failed economics.
Without their involvement, Assad’s regime would most likely have remained repressive; with their involvement, Syria has become a site of mass death and destruction.
Like the Christian and Jewish Bibles, the Koran is open to interpretation, whether quite liberal or dogmatic and repressive.
Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.
The Arab Spring, however, reveals the fragility of repressive political regimes that try to maintain their legitimacy by limiting information flows.
“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”
This is the same UN whose officials took kickbacks from the Iraqi oil for food program and jetted around the world on Concorde while supposedly trying to ameliorate poverty, and whose Commission on Human Rights was until recently chaired by Libya and now includes five of the world's fifteen most repressive nations - China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
Moreover, they have implemented repressive media laws that amount to state control of the Internet, which they claim is necessary to preserve stability, fight terrorism, or defend national sovereignty from Western interference.
By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.
But it was not until Tung tried to ram through draconian internal-security legislation that many of Hong Kong’s citizens began to feel that they were being overtaken by the repressive governance from which they were supposed to be exempt.
In repressive societies, good literature is by definition subversive.
In 1989, the fall of repressive East European regimes in quick succession stunned the world, including dissidents who had long recognized communism’s vulnerabilities.
Several countries are pursuing policies that emphasize prevention and treatment rather than repression – and refocusing their repressive measures on fighting the real enemy: organized crime.
A growing number of countries in Europe and Latin America are moving away from a purely repressive model.
But it is time to recognize that repressive policies towards drug users, rooted as they are in prejudice, fear, and ideology, may be no less a threat to liberty.
Unfortunately for many African countries, freedom and independence ended up in the hands of a few who had tasted and become addicted to the repressive practices that Africans had spent decades fighting.
The Crisis of PutinismPARIS – Why is Russian President Vladimir Putin resorting to increasingly repressive measures against his opponents?
The government’s recent record is depressing: in just a few months, the authorities have imposed several new repressive laws, forced influential journalists out of their jobs, and prosecuted human-rights defenders, mayors, lawyers, and prominent politicians.
A coup would almost certainly fail, giving an already repressive government a new justification to crack down on its opponents.
Here, countries with fresh memories of repressive rule, such as Latin American and East European nations, have increasingly taken the lead in promoting human rights initiatives and defending the principles.
What explains this slew of repressive measures?
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