31. The Senate approves an amnesty law designed to quell an uprising in the southern state of Chiapas. 32. The uprising was finally quelled Tuesday night after U.S. airstrikes and attacks by the northern alliance. 33. Troops quelled the uprising by killing hundreds if not thousands of people. 34. Troops quelled the uprising, killing hundreds. 35. Chun has argued in court that the security command had to send combat troops to Kwangju to quell the uprising because of the threat from North Korea. 36. Chun has testified that he was not in command when the troops sent to quell the uprising in the city shot dead civilian demonstrators. 37. Jailed former president Chun Doo-Hwan, a general in the junta at the time of the masssacre, became president after the military quelled the uprising. 38. McCurry said the United States is concerned about the Russian use of force to quell the uprising and it has expressed those concerns directly to the Russians. 39. Police used pepper gas to quell the uprising at the center, which has been the subject of complaints over conditions and food. |