General Surayud did not want to be prime minister and was not the junta's first choice.
Of course, the UN's operations in Myanmar may have done other things to upset the junta.
Mubarak's successors in the junta do not perceive their interests in the same way.
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Perhaps 10, 000 Argentines died this way in the seven years the junta was in power.
Over the weekend, the junta now ruling Egypt refused to explicitly commit themselves to maintaining the treaty.
But it is worth asking whether Mr Petrie had given the junta a justifiable pretext for taking umbrage.
Neighboring states, Western powers and the United Nations have condemned the coup and demanded the junta restore Toure's government.
The junta complained to the Vatican, but whatever Rome's own misgivings about the cardinal, it declined to chide him.
The junta insisted that the African Union, whose rotating presidency is currently held by Angola, supports intervention by Angolan forces.
The then-cardinal mostly avoided addressing his actions during the junta until publication of his authorized biography, El Jesuita, in 2010.
But he was only thought to be fourth in the junta's hierarchy and his demise seems unlikely to change things.
Amadou Sanogo, the junta leader "promised to ensure the security and safe evacuation of the officials, " the African Union said.
One of them, N'golo Coulibaly, has been appointed finance minister and three other associates of Mr Ouattara are now in the junta.
Maxima's father, Jorge Zorreguieta, had been Minister of Agriculture in the junta of General Jorge Videla, which terrorized Argentina in the 1980's.
In theory it may be possible, as France's foreign minister has argued, to obtain a United Nations' resolution obliging the junta to accept aid.
General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who led the coup, has retired as army commander and quit the Council for National Security, as the junta calls itself.
Five years later, in 1979, he became part of the junta that ended the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and in 1985 was elected president.
Under last October's Conakry agreement, the junta was supposed to give up power and Mr Kabbah was to return and form a government of national unity.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for defending human rights during the dictatorship, believes Fr Bergoglio "tried to... help where he could" under the junta.
The cardinal also said he pulled strings to try to win the priests' release, convincing a military chaplain who celebrated Mass for the then-head of the junta, Gen.
Raul Alfonsin's government, the first after military rule, could do that because the junta had collapsed in the wake of defeat in its 1982 Falklands war with Britain.
Noting that Aris may be so ill that he might not survive the journey, the junta says it does not want to encourage or endorse such an endeavor.
Some Europeans are reconsidering even that, though the European Union this week renewed its sanctions directed at members of the junta and at the export of Burmese gems, timber and metals.
On Sunday, the junta closed all Guinea-Bissau's air and sea borders after Portugal announced it was sending two navy ships and a military plane for a possible evacuation of its nationals.
European diplomats ventured into the capital Yangon, formerly Rangoon, this week to discuss the junta's recent charm offensive, and came away little the wiser, though there are plenty of encouraging signs.
The African Union said earlier Tuesday that it would impose more sanctions on Mali, one day after the Economic Community of West African States slapped the junta with travel and economic restrictions.
Ministers at a European Union meeting in Brussels said they may consider increasing sanctions against the junta, and will press counterparts in Southeast Asia to put more heat on Myanmar to encourage full democracy.
India in particular faces an increasingly untenable balancing act in maintaining its current accommodation of the junta, and will be under growing pressure this year to move toward a policy that better aligns its values and interests.
Nigeria's military leader, General Sani Abacha, ordered his troops to boot out the junta in Sierra Leone without a mandate from the United Nations and without telling its secretary-general of his intentions, as he had promised (see article).
"The junta had given a written undertaking following its meeting with a high-level ECOWAS delegation ... to step aside to pave the way for the immediate return to constitutional normality, " the group of West African states said in a statement Thursday.
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