It was discriminated against by the military governments that have mostly ruled South Korea since the 1960s.
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This is to curb the power of big landowners in the east, some of whom gained their land illegally from military governments.
Nor has the belief that only authoritarian governments could bring about reform: military governments have been the worst at dismantling the state.
The Spanish Government has backed an extradition request by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who is investigating crimes committed against Spaniards by former military governments in Latin America.
The 1980 map of Latin America was largely one of authoritarian, often military governments, generally controlled by small oligarchies, with hyper-cyclical, commodity-based economies, nearly all plagued by huge debt and hyper-inflation.
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The South Korean political left has also slowed pressure on human rights because they have traditionally seen criticism of the North as an excuse by past conservative military governments to restrict civil liberties in the South.
During Mr Stroessner's government, Paraguay took part in Operation Condor, a campaign of state-terror and security operations which were jointly conducted by the right-wing military governments of six Latin American countries (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil) in the 1970s.
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Under the military governments that ruled Myanmar from 1962 until 2011, ethnic and religious unrest was typically hushed up, an approach made easier in pre-Internet days, when there was a state monopoly on daily newspapers, radio and television, backed by tough censorship of other media.
It occurred under authoritarian (and military) governments, however.
Often called "the Nelson Mandela of Asia, " Kim dedicated his early years to fighting the tyranny of Seoul's military-backed governments.
The country has spent more years ruled by the military than by civilian governments.
You know, we've gone through a number of different periods over the last 20-something years, family dictatorship, military regimes, elected governments, more coups.
That appeared to be a minor concession to Russia, which has argued vehemently against any foreign governments providing military assistance for fear it would aid extremists.
By rushing into military alliance, both governments are running risks.
In the short term, perhaps the most serious fall out from the war may be the damage done to the image of the Israeli military among Middle East governments.
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Lord Archer of Sandwell, who served as Solicitor-General during the Wilson and Callaghan governments, argues military action without new UN authority would be "flagrantly unlawful".
To this should be added savings by state and municipal governments, and in military and other special pension schemes.
But parliament, the paper adds, will never admit that the country has ended up in the Hague dock, not because of its military but because of its successive governments.
We had a military government since 1958 because the civilian governments could not govern any more.
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Rwanda wants them eased: co-operation between militant Hutu groups in Rwanda and Burundi has forced the two governments into a sort of military alliance even though politically they are far apart.
Equally troubling, the two governments have been expanding their military cooperation after Iraqi Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Babaker Zebari met with Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Mohammad Pakpour last November in Tehran.
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Boeing's purchase of Argon ST may seem small for the aerospace and defense giant, but it's the right move as governments begin to cut back on military spending.
But in the absence of a decisive diplomatic shift in the right direction, Western governments should try to give the military effort against Mr Assad a further push.
Historically, South Korean governments have tried to de-escalate military tensions triggered by North Korean aggression.
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Perhaps a particularly jarring spike in violence might jolt outside governments into more urgent diplomatic or even military action.
Peregrine's swashbuckling style and its willingness to cosy up to even the least pleasant governments notably Myanmar's military junta and North Korea's communists have left it with plenty of detractors.
France also has 3, 500 troops stationed in neighbouring countries - part of the long-standing military commitment to French-speaking Africa that recent governments have actually been promising to scale back.
We know that autocratic governments share information, governance strategies and military hardware, and it's only logical that the configuration that one state designs (if it works) will proliferate among its allies and assorted others.
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