In March 2012, junior Malian military officers mutinied, overthrowing the civilian government in Bamako.

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Some 800, 000 people have fled the most recent unrest which started last April after the M23 fighters mutinied from the army.

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The rebellion started in April, when a militia that had been absorbed into the Congolese army mutinied and went on the rampage.

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Mr Nasheed, the country's first democratic president, claims he was forced to quit under duress after soldiers and police mutinied in the capital.

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Meanwhile some of Yukos's managers in Moscow have mutinied against the executives who, to avoid Mr Khodorkovsky's fate, have been trying to run the company from abroad.

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In 1918, part of the German fleet mutinied at Kiel.

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