After decades of Qaddafi's bizarre and repressive rule, key institutions — to the extent that they operate at all — are largely incapable of meeting ordinary people's needs.

在卡扎菲荒诞，高压式的的数十年的统治之后，利比亚重要的职能机构，这些机构在一定程度上掌管国家一切，在很大范围内已经无法满足普通民众的需要。

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The revolution was meant to end a repressive rule.

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Ironic, say Ms Park's critics, that it is precisely the generation who suffered under her father's repressive rule who seem most firmly in favour of electing her.

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And as for Cuba, the embargo imposed by the United States has probably been counter-productive, prolonging the repressive rule of the Castro brothers instead of helping to end it.

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Shariah is, of course, the term used by adherents to the totalitarian ideology practiced by the Saudi Wahhabis, the Iranian mullahs and the Taliban to describe the all-encompassing theocratic code they use to justify repressive rule at home and to extend their dominance elsewhere.

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