1.   After World War II, secular autocratic regimes in Algeria, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia repressed political opposition, sometimes violently.

2.   For decades, Lee has used a corrupt judiciary to repress political opposition to his rule.

3.   Activists seeking independence for East Timor accuse Suharto of using western arms to brutally repress any opposition.

4.   Britain, the United States and other western countries have accused Mugabe of trying to repress opposition through government-sanctioned violence and oppressive new laws.

5.   He ruled by decree, repeatedly blocked U.N. war crimes investigators and brutally repressed the opposition, while carefully cultivating a personality cult.

6.   He ruled by decree, repeatedly blocked U.N. war crimes investigators in Congo and brutally repressed opposition.

7.   His feared secret police repressed any opposition.

8.   In Turkmenistan, the government of President Sapamurad Niyazov represses all opposition and has total control of the media, it said.

9.   Laurent Kabila brutally repressed opposition, and dozens of journalists and politicians were arrested, tortured and, in some cases, summarily executed, human rights groups said.

10.   Opposition politicians in turn accuse the government, saying it is seeking a justification to repress the opposition.