For 45 years, Myanmar s people have been subjected to the junta s reign of terror.

There are no cultural institutions in Syria, no private independent NGOs, no civic institutions, who represent the populations except the government?

Corruption is widespread, and PDP politicians have been unable to deliver the prosperity and improved social services that Nigerians looked forward to following the return of democracy.

The popular vote was hailed as an important step in the country s transition from military to civilian rule, and the economy has made impressive strides under President Thein Sein s civilian government.

But the problem with military rule is a tendency toward incomplete understanding of the implications of political decisions a problem that will be aggravated further by collective leadership.

Argentina s trial of the generals was a successful ritual in the painstaking transition from military junta to democracy, but the experience ended with weeping self doubt.

Another negative scenario is military rule.

The election effected the final transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005.

All this changed, however, in the final days of the military dictatorship in the early 1970.

After the colonels junta there fell in 1974, a democratic system sprang up.

Military rule in Algeria continues de facto to this day.

But he stays too long (Uganda s Yoweri Museveni comes to mind).

China s national interest does not require it to prop up the Burmese junta forever.

But we believe that the protests represent the beginning of the end of military rule in our country.

The first woman minister was appointed in 1987 under the second military regime.

Under Communism, public debate was confined to private kitchens.

So Pakistanis have grimly accepted military rule as their destiny.

Thousands of people flocked back to Tahrir Square on Friday to protest against the country's military rule.

Successful transitions from military to civilian rule in Turkey, Spain, and elsewhere partly reflected sustained American and European support.

Mauritanians have been protesting for political and economic reforms, and the end to military rule, for more than a year.

Political parties, illegal during the military period, were legalized again in 1991.

RedDiaryPk writes on what this confirms the intentions of the current regime and the consequences of a military rule.

In Pakistan, the democratic transition, after years of military rule, is still not complete.

Transparency is my best protection under totalitarianism.

For nearly five decades, Burma s military rulers have systematically undermined the interests of their own citizens.

Last July, the Council s military leader, Abdul Fatah Younis al Obeidi, was assassinated under ambiguous circumstances.

The military situation along the ceasefire lines remained generally calm and stable.

So Pakistanis grimly learned to accept military rule as their destiny.

In fact, Country A is democratic India, and Country B is Pakistan the country that has a long period of military rule.

Sadly, Belgrade s vision of Kosovo returning to Serbian rule albeit with autonomy ignores these realities.

They remained in jail in Riyadh without legal representation until the final verdict.

During these three periods of military rule, the country was able to align itself quickly with the US.

After three years of military administration by the United States, the South Korean government was established.

Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.

Either man would be the first prime minister who was not born in the British Raj.

And it really makes difference in terms of the limits of state s discretion when safeguarding human rights in the peacetime and during the period of martial law.

In Burma, we see another model a bold attempt after decades of military rule to move in a controlled but purposeful way toward a new, inclusive form of government.

South Korean students filling the streets of Seoul in 1986 could not have ended the authoritarian military government either.

At first, we tried to show our displeasure with military rule by refusing to receive alms from them.

Nigeria endured almost 15 years of it, despite repeated pledges by three successive dictators to restore democracy.

But under ineffectual governance, particularly during the last three years, India is in danger of degenerating into a soft state.

He was careful not to humiliate Gorbachev, and to manage the transition to Boris Yeltsin s presidency in a newly independent Russia.

The possibility of military intervention in Syria, together with the deteriorating situation in Egypt since the army s coup, has placed the region on a razor s edge.

In the 1980s during the military dictatorship of Mengistu Hailemariam his writings caused him to spend 12 harrowing years in the dungeons of Addis Ababa as a political prisoner.

With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy.