The ill-fated venture started in 1998, just before the collapse of General Sani Abacha's military regime.
For some however, the tournament was tainted, offering apparent legitimacy to the country's oppressive military regime.
Even Myanmar's military regime has realized that the public clamor for effective leadership cannot be silenced.
The old military regime used to herd peasants forcibly into collectives, with lethal results.
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Some ministers are already cautioning the public about the pitfalls of a military regime.
The military regime in Myanmar has not yet allowed any prevention campaigns on radio or television.
He has called for a military regime and says Japan should build nuclear weapons.
He visited Athens from time to time urging the military regime then in power to seize Cyprus.
The military regime is being phased in over four years, which gives the school a curious appearance.
The country also shares a border with Myanmar and has enjoyed good relations with the military regime.
Even so, 300-400 leftist opponents were killed or disappeared under the military regime and several thousand were tortured.
Her only caveat was that visitors should avoid the tourist establishments that have close ties with the military regime.
But it is unlikely, sadly, to have much effect on Myanmar's military regime.
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Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been under house arrest for years under orders from Myanmar's military regime.
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The US drifted from Brazilian politics under Jimmy Carter, who grew wary of human rights abuses under the military regime.
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Western governments have responded to the efforts by starting to ease sanctions put in place to pressure the military regime.
Mainstream political parties, newspaper editors and intellectuals, despite their aversion to any military regime, have thrown their weight behind him.
Just three years ago, Mr. Thein Sein was one of the top generals in a military regime feared for its brutality.
He's expected to denounce the military regime in neighboring Myanmar -- also known as Burma -- for its human rights abuses.
He was also an activist who, while at Corinthians in the late 1970s, founded a movement opposing the country's military regime.
Earlier on Tuesday she described how supporters around the world had given her strength while she campaigned against Myanmar's military regime.
Yet the question remains why an entrenched military regime, in power since 1962, is doing all this now, and so fast.
To enforce this, the country's military regime imposes jail terms of up to 15 years for unauthorised use of a modem.
Myanmar's military regime has held Suu Kyi under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years and rarely allows her visitors.
Chinese soft loans to Tonga, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and, more controversially, to the military regime in Fiji, have raised American eyebrows.
But a 1996 visa blanket ban that targeted officials from the former military regime and their families was terminated, the State Department said.
Critics have accused the military regime of convicting her to prevent her participation in the upcoming 2010 election, the first one since 1990.
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Visiting London on Tuesday, Suu Kyi described how supporters around the world had given her strength while she campaigned against Myanmar's military regime.
Rather than being arrested for the crime of assaulting a foreign embassy, the rioter was embraced as a hero by Egypt's military regime.
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