31.   The army canceled the vote midway, sparking the insurgency and a brutal crackdown by security forces.

32.   The potential penalties are mild compared with the situation on the mainland, where a brutal crackdown allegedly has left hundreds dead.

33.   The move, coupled with a brutal crackdown, triggered the insurgency.

34.   The party was banned as part of a brutal crackdown in which tens of thousands of sympathizers were jailed.

35.   German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday that the brutal military crackdown in Chechnya was damaging western support for Russian economic and political reforms.

36.   Beijing has so far ignored repeated pleas to reassess and apologise for the brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

37.   British Prime Minister John Major implicitly criticised the brutal Russian crackdown in Chechnya on Tuesday, but also said that Britain seeks a full relationship with Russia.

38.   Criticism has also been levelled at the police for their brutal crackdown on Alawite protesters whose non-conformist way of practising Islam is considered heretical by fundamentalists.

39.   Criticism has also been levelled at the police for their brutal crackdown on Alawite protests.

40.   The Serbian move, accompanied by a brutal crackdown on the Albanian population, was against a committed Albanian movement for independence from Serbia.