31.   Chen actively promoted a hardline response to the protests and supported the military crackdown that crushed the movement.

32.   Clinton also reiterated U.S. opposition to the continuing Russian military crackdown in the separatist region of Chechnya.

33.   Dissidents in East Timor, mostly speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were afraid a protest might provoke a military crackdown.

34.   Dissidents, mostly speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were afraid a protest might provoke a military crackdown.

35.   Dissidents, mostly speaking on condition of anonymity, had said they were afraid a protest might provoke a military crackdown.

36.   European Union foreign ministers on Saturday backed sanctions against Yugoslavia and offered to mediate in an attempt to end the military crackdown in the mainly Albanian province of Kosovo.

37.   European Union foreign ministers backed the measures on Saturday and offered to mediate in an attempt to end the military crackdown.

38.   Hariri has complained of being sidelined and his government allies have denounced the military crackdown.

39.   Government ministers and senior generals have threatened a military crackdown in January if negotiations break down again.

40.   He also faces treason charges in connection with a bloody military crackdown on a democracy uprising in the southern city of Kwangju six months later.