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Military government

Military junta, extralegal rule of a country by military committee, usually after a coup d'état


11441 Anadiego

It is named for Ana Teresa Diego (1954–1976), an astronomy student at La Plata Astronomical Observatory and political activist who was kidnapped and disappeared in September 1976 by unidentified persons believed working for the military junta then ruling Argentina.

2009 Guinea protest

The 2009 Guinea protest was an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on Monday, 28 September 2009, with about 50,000 participants protesting against the junta government that came to power after the Guinean coup d'état of December 2008.

Carter B. Magruder

During his command, a military junta led by Park Chung-hee overthrew the elected premier, John Chang.

Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Chalongphob Sussangkarn was the President of the Thailand Development Research Institute and later served as Minister of Finance in Surayud Chulanont's military junta.

Conservatism in North America

When Panama was separated from Colombia in 1903, the newly independent country of Panama was initially controlled by a military junta led by José Agustín Arango and Manuel Amador Guerrero.

Francisco Urcuyo

This announcement provoked a strong reaction from the Sandinistas, other Latin American states, and the Carter Administration in the U.S. Recognizing the untenability of his situation, Urcuyo fled to Guatemala on 18 July, effectively handing the country over to the Sandinista junta.

Kaleb Tedla

Since he was Eritrean and best friend to two of the top-ranking Eritrean-born Ethiopian Generals, General Aman Andom and General Bereket, Kaleb's case was weighed more than the any other Ethiopian, and he was accused of helping the ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front), and also alleged that he ordered the ruthless interrogations of one of his employees who stole from him more than 150,000,000 Ethiopian birr, which was found later to be a simple fabrication by the junta's cadres.

Leighton Gage

He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany and Yugoslavia in the days when the Soviet Union held sway and also lived in Brazil during the time of the military government.

Manno Charlemagne

He lived abroad in exile twice, both during the 1980s and again during the years 1991-1994, when the country was ruled by a military junta led by Raoul Cédras.

Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country

Although after only hours of taking the capital and instituting a three-man junta including CONAIE president Antonio Vargas the government dissipated, echoing CONAIE’s frustration.

Plan de Sánchez massacre

He formed a three-member military junta that annulled the 1965 constitution, dissolved Congress, and suspended all political parties.

Ricardo Cavallo

Under the name Miguel Angel Cavallo and pseudonym "Serpico", he served as an officer of the National Reorganization Process (El Proceso), the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.


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A. K. Fazlul Huq

He was dismissed from public office by the Governor-General of Pakistan on charges of inciting secession, and was later banned from politics by the military junta of General Ayub Khan.

Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla

Urrutia was a Panamanian soldier who commanded, alongside José María Pinilla, the military junta which overthrew elect president Arnulfo Arias on October 11, 1968.

Brazilian Military Junta of 1969

During the redemocratization process, the then president of the National Constituent Assembly (1987-1988), Ulysses Guimarães, a staunch opponent of the military regime, famously referred to the Military Junta of 1969 as The Three Stooges.

Chilekommittén

In response to a request from the Chilean trade union centre CUT, Chilekommittén propagated boycotts of Chilean imports, arguing that trade with Chile strengthened the military junta.

CSRD

Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, a military junta which staged a coup d'état in Niger in 2010

Internal conflict in Burma

In November 2005, the military junta began transferring the government away from Yangon to a location near Kyatpyay, just outside Pyinmana, for the purpose of designating a new capital city.

Joseph Nérette

He served as the provisional president of Haïti between 1991 and 1992, part of a period in which real political authority rested with the military junta headed by Raoul Cédras and Michel François.

Mariano Grondona

A non-authorized biography of Grondona, El Doctor, by Martín Sivak (2005), pointed out that he worked as an advisor of military junta member Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, on whose request he wrote a government programme titled Bases Políticas para la Reorganización Nacional (echoing Juan Bautista Alberdi's Bases and Points of Departure for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic).

Matthei

Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General, member of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973-1990

Nigerian Presidential Complex

The palatial residence was completed in 1991, the same year the military junta of Ibrahim Babangida relocated the national capital from Lagos to Abuja.

Sathiraphan Keyanon

Admiral Sathiraphan Keyanon (Thai:สถิรพันธุ์ เกยานนท์) is a Thai naval officer, Commander of the Royal Thai Navy, and a deputy in the military junta that overthrew the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a 2006 military coup.

Saw Wai

On 22 January 2008, Saw Wai was arrested by Burmese authorities for publishing a poem that secretly criticized Than Shwe, the head of Burma's ruling military junta.