31. Some historians estimate that as many as half a million of its supporters or sympathizers were later killed in a bloody crackdown. 32. Successive U.S. administrations later backed Indonesian dictator Suharto in his bloody crackdown against the rebels. 33. Since then, human rights activists have denounced the military for resuming their bloody crackdown against separatist rebels in Aceh province and killing hundreds of civilians in the process. 34. Some of them may face new charges for alleged involvement in a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters several months later. 35. Taiwan urged China on Thursday to institute political reforms as a guarantee against a repeat of its bloody crackdown on democracy activists nine years ago. 36. The European Union Monday announced a ban on investment in Yugoslavia in response to the bloody crackdown by Serb forces on the Albanian majority in Kosovo. 37. The cost of the breakup was bloody crackdowns by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic when republics declared independence. 38. The ethnic Albanians were seeking to get even for a bloody crackdown that was ordered by Milosevic and ended by the NATO airstrikes. 39. The former Yugoslav leader stood alone and expressed his contempt for the court as it arraigned him on four counts linked to a bloody crackdown in Kosovo. 40. The objective of any NATO military action would be to pressure Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into ending his bloody crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists. |