In March 2012, junior Malian military officers mutinied, overthrowing the civilian government in Bamako.
We work with both the civilian government and with the military, depending on the issue.
Burma installed a nominally civilian government in March 2011, ending almost half a century of military rule.
But it won parliamentary seats in by-elections in 2012 that came amid reforms by the new civilian government.
Guinea-Bissau's military junta handed power back to a civilian government six weeks after the army staged a coup.
The Greek junta had suddenly been replaced by a civilian government, so Mr Sampson had lost his backer.
In all of these arenas, a new civilian government will face a more complex landscape than its predecessors.
The two surviving leaders of Turkey's 1980 military coup have gone on trial charged with overthrowing the civilian government.
It offered to rein in Pakistan's armed forces in return for more robust American support for the civilian government.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has insisted that it will hand over power to an elected civilian government.
Myanmar has undertaken numerous political and economic overhauls since the country's generals handed power to Mr. Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government.
As Pakistan attempts what would be its first-ever transition from one civilian government to another, these Pakistanis are watching closely.
Nawaz Sharif, the main opposition leader, seems not to want to bring down a civilian government before elections are due.
Saturday's election, if successful, would mark the first time in the country's history that one civilian government is replaced by another.
Burma has launched a series of reforms since establishing a nominally civilian government in 2011, ending almost 50 years of military rule.
Saturday's election marks a historic milestone for Pakistan as one civilian government completes its term and prepares to hand off to another.
But it won seats in parliament last year following reforms by the new civilian government and is looking towards elections in 2015.
The civilian government isn't the only pillar of power that is changing.
Then you have the military and then you have the civilian government.
The second mirage - the second mirage is going into civilian government.
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Chile voted for a civilian government in 1989, and the following year Patricio Aylwin became the country's first president after democracy was restored.
Certainly it is hard to see Pakistan's army stepping in, even to install a new civilian government of technocrats, a favourite theory in Islamabad.
Saturday's vote, if successful, would mark the first time since Pakistan's establishment in 1947 that a civilian government is succeeded by another elected administration.
Now biding his time in Kuwait, he is set to take on the tenuous diplomatic role of transitioning Iraq to a new civilian government.
The statement was interpreted as a suggestion that the smaller groups have deserted the PPP-led civilian government at the behest of the security establishment.
They look like being joined by Indonesia, whose new civilian government, formed after its first free election in 44 years, contains many former opposition leaders.
But Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said U.S. officials expect that SCAF "will transfer full power to a democratically elected civilian government, " as it had promised.
But it's been difficult to stitch together a coalition of African countries willing or able to go to war on behalf of Mali's weak civilian government.
This election would mark the first time in Pakistan's coup-ridden history that a civilian government served a full five-year term and transferred power to another elected administration.
Pakistan on Wednesday announced that elections will be held on 11 May in what will be the first democratic transition between an elected civilian government to another.
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