Hopes that a popular uprising might topple the regime have fizzled.

Bahrain is now in the third year of its crackdown on a popular uprising.

Yemen's popular uprising in 2011 helped oust President Saleh after 33 years in power.

In 1990, a popular uprising against an entrenched military dictatorship brought the first real push towards sustained democracy.

March 15, the day of Bassel's arrest, is also the day that commemorates the start of the Syrian popular uprising.

The country is already divided by sectarian tensions following the popular uprising in 2011, when people called for more political reforms.

Yemen s popular uprising has splintered the security establishment, with different military factions now in charge of different neighborhoods in the capital, Sana.

Bahrain witnessed a popular uprising in 2011, which was followed by a crackdown that is still hitting hard on the small kingdom.

General Suharto rose to power during this period and remained Indonesia s leader until 1998, when a popular uprising forced him to resign.

He was in charge of the French Army in Madrid when the popular 2 May uprising that started the Peninsular War happened.

The uprising in 1952 is particularly revealing, because it was widespread and intensely popular, for it was directed against the much hated British.

Hand kissing was popular during the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and is viewed as against the values of post uprising Tunisia.

Bahrain, which bans political parties but allows political societies to function within narrow parameters, has been witnessing political turmoil following the 2011 popular uprising.

The resulting power vacuums were filled by those whose prior positions in society gave them an inside track at the time of the popular uprising.

Dashti is a critic of Saudi Arabia, in particular its war in Yemen and its 2011 military intervention in Bahrain to crush the popular uprising.

Such a popular uprising would be brutally suppressed, strengthening both sides intransigents in the short run and undermining America s automatic support for Israel in the long term.

Ghouta is one among the many Syrian towns that have been subjected to siege, bombing, destruction and starvation since the beginning of the popular uprising in March 2011.

Car owners are an affluent, socially active, and easily organized group. Street protests against the import duties became the first serious popular uprising that Russia has seen in many years.

Bahrain is now in the third year of its crackdown on a popular uprising. International media reports the protests in Bahrain as a Shia led revolution against a Sunni regime.

It is no secret that the Saudi government has always shown full support for the Bahraini regime and sent the Peninsula Shield forces to crush the popular uprising in 2011.

In 1948, massive violent protests, known as the Al Wathbah uprising broke out across Baghdad as a popular demand against the government treaty with the British, and with communist part support.

The revolution in Tunisia was just a matter of time a popular uprising to end a system that failed to deliver the free society for which the Tunisian public has long been ready.

In a response to a popular uprising in February 2011, the Bahraini regime responded not only with violent force, but also by encouraging a nasty sectarianism in order to divide the popular movement and to build domestic and regional support for a crackdown, wrote Mark Lynch at Foreign Policy.

The 17th century was rich in popular risings, such as the liberation of Moscow from the Polish Lithuanian invaders (1612), the Salt Riot (1648), the Copper Riot (1662), and the Moscow Uprising of 1682.

Everywhere you looked, people were excising hated autocrats. Here, at long last, was Poland s long awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.

Shortly after this, the Second Serbian Uprising began.

The uprising failed after seven days of fighting.

Libya s transition was arguably further impeded by NATO s intervention, as the rapid shift from a spontaneous popular uprising to an elite led and externally supported movement prevented the revolution from following the linear course seen in Tunisia and Egypt.

On 29 March 1979, the Herat uprising began the uprising turned the revolt into an open war between the Mujahideen and the Afghan government.

It's been six months since the Libyan uprising began.

This came five years after the failed Guangzhou uprising.

Malagasy Uprising During the Malagasy Uprising of 1947, in Mananjary hundreds of Malagasy were killed, among them 18 women and a group of prisoners thrown from aircraft.

Some have said that the uprising in Burma is over.

The first days of the current uprising favored the people.

And the least popular became the most popular.

The resulting power vacuums were filled by those whose prior positions in society gave them an inside track at the time of the popular uprising. They assumed power with a set of ideas and operating procedures that had to catch up with the new Egypt.

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

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This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

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In 1930 he conspired for an armed uprising against the Monarchy.