11.   The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan denied the claim and said its rivals had attacked the border region in an attempt to suppress possible uprisings by local tribes.

12.   The uprising was brutally suppressed by the current military leadership.

13.   Thousands of protesters were killed when the military suppressed the uprising.

14.   They then sent troops and tanks to brutally suppress an uprising by hundreds of thousands of people in Kwangju, an opposition stronghold, six months later.

15.   The government tried to suppress the uprising by force, but scaled back its efforts under international scrutiny and opened negotiations with the rebels.