Students and peasant followers had imprisoned local small landowners, rich peasants and members of the local police force ; this action led to further unrest, causing the Derg ( the ruling junta ) to send a special delegation to Jimma, which sided with the local police.

On 1 January 1964, a Council of Notables comprising sixty leading citizens met for the first time, having been selected by Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo for Minh's junta.

In February 1981, with the support of the Islands ' Councillors, the British government met Argentine representatives in New York but the British proposal for a sovereignty freeze was rejected by the junta.

After the fall of the military junta, he returned to Buenos Aires, and the publication of his books were met with large success, not only in South America but also in Italy and several other countries where his works begun to be translated and published.

The ASCJ was a New Model Union, and Applegarth regularly met with other leading New Model Unionists in London, in what Sidney and Beatrice Webb termed a junta.

While he was in prison, Michaloliakos met the leaders of the Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974 and laid the foundations of the Golden Dawn party.

Golden Dawn's leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, met the leaders of the junta while in prison and was inspired to lay the foundations for the party.

Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Their actions, in turn, bred popular resentment among Quiteños, who, after several days of street fighting in August 1810, won an agreement to be governed by a junta composed with a majority of Criollos, although with the Peninsular president of the Royal Audience of Quito acting as its head.

Intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998 ; the civil war led to a 28 % drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999.

* 1965 – Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.

On 19 November 1968, a group of young Malian officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member military junta, with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

As a result of increased Chinese influence in Burma as well as the safe haven and arms trafficking occurring along the Indo-Burmese border, India has sought in recent years to shore up ties with the military junta.

However, with increasing bonhomie between the Indian government and the Burma junta and KIA becoming the main source of training and weapons for all northeastern rebel groups, R & AW initiated Operation Leech, with the help of Army and paramilitary forces, to assassinate the leaders of the Burmese rebels as an example to other groups.

However, after 1986, China withdrew support for the CPB and began supplying the military junta with the majority of its arms in exchange for increased access to Burmese markets and a rumoured naval base on Coco Islands in the Andaman Sea.

A new front of Marxist-Leninist revolution erupted in Africa, with revolutions in Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, and Somalia ; Marxist-Leninist liberation fronts in Angola and Mozambique revolting against Portguese colonial rule ; the overthrow of Haile Selassie and the creation of the Derg communist military junta in Ethiopia ; blacks led by Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia revolting against white-minority rule there.

Forms of government and other political structures associated with oligarchy can include aristocracy, meritocracy, military junta, plutocracy, stratocracy, technocracy, theocracy and timocracy.

* 1973 – Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.

There were strikes and demonstrations in Addis Ababa in 1974 ; and in February of that year, Haile Selassie ’ s government was replaced by the Derg, a military junta led by Mengistu Hailemariam ; but the Council was still Amhara-dominated, with only 25 non-Amhara members out of 125.

But at the end of 1811, dissatisfied with the political role that military officers were beginning to play, he resigned from the junta.

Meanwhile, Paraguay again declared itself independent of Argentina and expelled two junta members known to be sympathetic to union with Argentina.

In May 1961, the junta declared " Pledges of the Revolution ": anticommunism was to be the nation's main policy ; friendly relations would be strengthened with allies of the free world, notably the United States ; all corruption and government misdeed would be disposed and " fresh and clean morality " would be introduced ; the reconstruction of a self-reliant economy would be priority ; the nation's ability would be nurtured to fight against communism and achieve reunification ; and that government would be returned to a democratic civilian government within two years.

Koroma suspended the constitution, banned demonstrations, shut down all private radio stations in the country and invited the RUF to join the new junta government, with its leader Foday Sankoh as the Vice-Chairman of the new AFRC-RUF coalition junta government.

The military government, with support of the US, tightened its control over the country's politics, while intellectuals and leftist students strongly opposed the junta.

Later that year, Iturbide dissolved Congress and replaced it with a sympathetic junta.

However, its use by the military junta of 1967-1974 made it extremely unpopular, and it has almost disappeared from use after 1974, with the notable exception of the Order of the Phoenix, the country's second-highest award.

The junta embarked on a radical program of liberalization and privatization, slashing tariffs as well as government welfare programs and deficits.

Cartagena de Indias established a junta on May 22, 1810, followed others, including the viceregal capital, Bogotá, on July 20 ( today Colombia's Independence Day ).

Retired Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez, a member of the military junta that overthrew Mahuad, was elected president in 2002 and assumed the presidency on January 15, 2003.

A military junta headed by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized power on April 3, 1984 in a bloodless coup, ending Beavogui's brief rule.

The junta also explored other options, but public clamor, which included public demonstrations in support of potential candidates, eventually forced the officers to make good on their promise.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

After the junta seized power, they successfully repelled a counter coup on 30 April by loyalists from the red berets elite units.

* 1966 – After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.

As a result the military junta of Burma is highly reliant on the Chinese for their currently high level of power.

When the junta learned that a porteño diplomat was on his way to Asunción, it panicked because it realized it was not competent to negotiate without Francia.

In the absence of anyone equal to him on the junta, Francia now controlled the government.

The junta ruled the country by martial law and executive decree for weeks, until it promulgated an interim constitution on 2006-10-01.

* June 8 – A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs ; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.

For Corfiotes a recent example of such heroism is that of geology student Kostas Georgakis, who set himself ablaze in Genoa, Italy on 19 September 1970, in a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

According to human rights groups, 157 people died when the military junta opened fire against tens of thousands protesters in the city in on 28 September 2009.

A group of seventy volunteers led by Enrico Cairoli, Pavia and Terni joined the revolutionary junta in Rome on October 20, after having sailed down the Tiber and landing at the confluence with the Aniene river.

Conyers expressed concern that this silence was due to the CIA's connections to these military officers dating back to the creation of the Haitian Intelligence service known as SIN, as Alan Nairn's research has shown: " We have turned a very deaf ear to what is obviously a moving force ... it leads you to wonder if our silence is because we knew this was going on and of our complicity in drug activity ..." Nairn in particular alleged that the CIA's connections to these drug traffickers in the junta not only dated to the creation of SIN, but were ongoing during and after the coup.

President Alfonsín took office on the giving up of power by the last military junta, and his main task was to ensure a peaceful transition.

Minh took over the government under a military junta on 6 November, which consisted of 12 generals.

An Army junta under General Massu seized power in Algiers on the night of May 13, thereafter known as the May 1958 crisis.

the government appeared to be on the verge of succumbing to a military junta.

The U. S. Embassy suspended operations in Bissau on June 14, 1998, in the midst of violent conflict between forces loyal to then-President Vieira and the military-led junta.