The retaliation, which was intended to encourage a Lebanese government crackdown on Palestinian militants, instead polarized Lebanese society on the Palestinian question, deepening the divide between pro-and anti-Palestinian factions, with the Muslims leading the former grouping and Maronites primarily constituting the latter.

The progress made by Gaddafi's government in improving relations with the Western world was swiftly set back by the regime's authoritarian crackdown on protests that began the following month.

Atta was also enraged by Egypt's ruling elite, and the Egyptian government's crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members.

In the same month, the home of opposition leader Jean Pierre Fabre was raided by security forces, and thousands of protesters again rallied publicly against the government crackdown.

They considered it to be bad that there was no effective federal military crackdown to an armed tax rebellion in western Massachusetts known as Shays ' Rebellion.

George III was able to crush the revolt and embarked on a campaign of crackdown on the defiant aristocratic clans ; Ivane Orbeli was put to death and the surviving members of his family were driven out of Georgia.

Tamar was also pressured into dismissing her father's appointees, among them the constable Qubasar, a Georgianized Kipchak of ignoble birth, who had helped George III in his crackdown on the defiant nobility.

A revolt of slaves was occurring in St. Croix, which increased the general fervour in the islands, but the free population of Tortola were much more concerned with two other grievances: the appointment of public officials, and the crackdown on smuggling.

During the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Li used his authority as Premier to declare martial law, and in cooperation with Deng Xiaoping, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, to order the June 1989 military crackdown against student pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

Although the Tiananmen crackdown was an " international public relations disaster for China ", it ensured that Li would have a long and productive career.

In the major crackdown against the Mafia following Falcone and Borsellino's deaths, Riina was arrested on January 15, 1993, and is now serving a life sentence for sanctioning the murders of both magistrates as well as many other crimes.

The group suffered a major setback in a crackdown in 1992 when much of its leadership was neutralized through incarceration.

This song was based on the Pakistan Army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War.

This violent crackdown was nicknamed " Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew ".

The government crackdown was extremely successful.

In 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had previously granted various rights to French Protestants ; the subsequent royal crackdown was driven by the king's strongly anti-Protestant views.

Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq was founded in 1982 during the Iran – Iraq War after the leading Islamist insurgent group, Islamic Dawa Party, was severely weakened by a government crackdown following Dawa's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

In August 1993, al-Jihad unsuccessfully attempted to kill the Egyptian Interior Minister, Hasan al-Alfi, who was leading a crackdown on Islamic militants.

* 2012: GSG 9 was involved in a raid on the Hanover Hells Angel chapter leader Frank Hanebuth's house, as part of a crackdown on the group.

As a result there was a police crackdown on street prostitution following the report.

The first was erected in Hong Kong on 4 June 1997, ahead of the handover from British to Chinese rule on 1 July 1997, as a protest against China's crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

In 1989, then Premier Li Peng, in cooperation with the then Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping, was able to use the office of the Premier to declare martial law in Beijing and order the military crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

With the additional crackdown on casinos in Miami, Lansky was forced to depend on his Las Vegas revenues.

The Canadian government in response issued a crackdown on the FLQ and suspended civil liberties in Quebec, forcing the FLQ leadership to flee to exile in Cuba where the Cuban government accepted their entry.

In response to widespread condemnation of the trial from human-rights groups and the Malaysian bar association, he ordered a crackdown on the media and opposition parties who protested the trial.

This attack was the Irgun's response to a British crackdown, " Black Sabbath ", launched on 29 June 1946.

She also instituted a task force to combat air pollution in response to a government study that listed Huntington Park as one of several communities particularly at risk and launched a crackdown on a black market for illegal documentation.

In the early 1990s, pirate radio briefly declined in response to tougher penalties, an intensified crackdown by the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) and the leading dance pirate radio station Kiss FM responding to the Government's offer of amnesty for pirate stations that closed down voluntarily and applied for an official licence.

In March 1971, in response to a crackdown on locals in East Pakistan, the five battalions of the East Bengal Regiment mutinied and initiated the Bangladesh War of Liberation.

He was a contributor to the satirical newspaper “ O Pasquim ”, which began publication in response to press censorship in Brazil following the military crackdown of December, 1968.

The Urumqi bus bombs of 25 February 1997, perhaps a response to the crackdown that followed the Ghulja Incident, killed 9 and injured 68.

In response to the state ban on hazing, the school's longstanding policy of don't ask-don't tell evolved into a crackdown of hazing activities.

In the following decade, a new District Attorney, Al Schmutzer, launched a crackdown on the various moonshining, gambling, and cockfighting rings within the county, with some success.

The decision for the atypical setting was believed to be part of a crackdown on fanciful scenes erected in various cities around Italy.

The crackdown on Sikh militant organisations by the Indian Government in the early 1990s, followed by government infiltration of the Khalistan movement and the various militant organisations respectively, greatly weakened the Babbar Khalsa, ultimately leading to the death of Sukhdev Singh Babbar ( 9 August 1992 ) and Talwinder Singh Parmar ( 15 October 1992 ).

Among the policies Cristea introduced during his rule as Prime Minister was a crackdown on Protestants, by disallowing religious service to small congregations with less than 100 heads of families, basically banning the services in around 1500 small chapels belonging to various Christian denominations.

The party did not at the outset give open support to an independent Taiwanese national identity – a move that could have invited a violent crackdown by the Taiwan's Kuomintang rulers.

The Brazilian Integralists led by Plínio Salgado, claimed as many as 200, 000 members although following coup attempts it faced a crackdown from the Estado Novo of Getúlio Vargas in 1937.

The assassination of the Babylonian governor around 582 by a disaffected member of the former royal house of David provoked a Babylonian crackdown, possibly reflected in the Book of Lamentations, but the situation seems to have soon stabilised again.

The day would become known as " Black Saturday " and mark the beginning of a renewed crackdown by the New Order government against supporters of democracy, now called the " Reformasi " or Reformation.

Molotov cocktails used by United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship | protesters in Thailand, 2010 Thai military crackdown | May 2010.

Despite the crackdown by Interpol on traffic and illicit manufacture of temazepam, the country has also become a major exporter of illicit temazepam of the " jelly " variety, trafficking it to the United Kingdom and other European nations.

Singer Diana Ross performed the national anthem, which followed a moment of silence in support of the Polish trade union Solidarity ; following the crackdown by the communist government of Poland on the pro-democracy union.

The newly formed union government of Serbia and Montenegro reacted swiftly by calling a state of emergency and undertaking an unprecedented crackdown on organized crime which led to the arrest of more than 4, 000 people.

These numbers swelled significantly and later led to a crackdown by the government.

It began with an oppressive period of crackdown and paternalistic rule, then a dōka ( 同化 ) period of aims to treat all people ( races ) alike proclaimed by Taiwanese Nationalists who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations ( 民族自決 ) proposed by Woodrow Wilson after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( 皇民化 ), a policy which aimed to turn Taiwanese into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor.

During the ensuing crackdown by the KMT administration in what became known as the 228 incident, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the incident became a taboo topic of discussion for the entire martial law era.

Under Jiang's leadership, the crackdown on Falun Gong became part of the Chinese political ethos of " upholding stability " – much the same rhetoric employed by the party during Tiananmen in 1989.

Human Rights Watch notes that the crackdown on Falun Gong reflects historical efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to eradicate religion, which the government believes is inherently subversive.

But in 1956, after the crackdown by the Soviets of the Hungarian Uprising, the soccer team were caught away from home, and for two years, Fritz managed their games and provided the financial backing and in small measure, paid them back for having saved his life.

In the 1970s, the roles of Pakistan and Afghanistan reversed, despite the fresh crackdown on Baloch and Pashtun nationalists by the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

On 17 March 1831, while fleeing Italy due to a crackdown on revolutionary activity by Papal and Austrian troops, Louis-Napoléon's brother, suffering from measles, died in his arms.

In July 1862 a number of county citizens were rounded up by Union troops during a crackdown against suspected Confederate sympathizers.