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junta

noun as in council

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Sixty percent of the people involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement, a peaceful protest designed to shut down the country, are women, and they continue to face sexual violence, harassment, abuse, and threats from the junta.

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Before they left, the junta forced them to sign a bond saying that they and their children would never speak out against them, to guarantee the safety of their family that remained in the country and the privilege of being allowed to return.

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Once, when I was staying with a cousin in Yangon, I had to hide in her wardrobe as junta inspectors came to the door because I wasn’t listed as a resident.

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Under the previous junta, which ruled from 1962 to 2011, there was little access to information outside of military propaganda.

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On March 25, Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize—and just weeks ago, protesters were using creativity, humor and the arts to inspire solidarity and mock the junta.

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If J-Law suddenly decided to declare solidarity with Thai anti-junta activists?

The students were protesting the May 22 military coup that brought a junta and Gen. Prayut to power.

A junta can do it, using their military power to overtly or covertly control decisions at the highest level.

Markov still calls Ukrainian officials “the junta,” enemies.

The junta reportedly has appointed a six-member advisory board to look after security, the economy, and laws.

One of the provisional junta of government is the greatest slave merchant here.

These papers were received by the junta of Provisional Government, at whose head was the Bishop.

Each of these has as its head an officer called a regedor, and occupies the attention of a junta de parochia, or parish council.

La junta passada de adonde comenron todas las desverguenas que al presente ay en este reyno.

The viceroy of Peru, dismayed by this disaster, asked a truce, which the Junta consented to accord to him.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to junta, such as: faction, government, assembly, cabal, committee, and convention.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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