1.   Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir took steps in mid-November to crush internal opposition based around the labour movement.

2.   He relishes crushing the opposition with a blend of sheer muscle and technological supremacy.

3.   Internal security forces and military units move swiftly to crush opposition.

4.   Opposition officials accuse Mugabe of orchestrating violent land occupations to crush political opposition in rural districts.

5.   After World War II, President Josip Broz Tito, himself a field marshall, used the army to crush any opposition to communist rule.

6.   After World War II, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, himself a field marshall, used the army to crush any opposition to communist rule.

7.   But activists abroad say Beijing wants to use the anti-terrorism effort as an excuse to crush peaceful opposition to Chinese rule.

8.   But his goal was to maintain white minority rule, and he imposed states of emergency and other crackdowns on anti-apartheid groups to try to crush the opposition.

9.   During his decades in power, President Suharto, himself a five-star army general, used the army to crush any opposition.

10.   He has blamed Sam Rainsy, who accuses Hun Sen of creating a pretext to crush the opposition.