Few as they were, some immediate gains testified to the power of the mass uprising.

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Ms Megawati is Indonesia's third president since a mass uprising forced President Suharto from office in 1998, following 32 years of authoritarian rule.

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Milosevic, ousted in a mass uprising last October, has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for atrocities against ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1999.

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