a breif history of people power

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People Power, the Philippines, 1986
The term people power entered English parlance as the world watched the popular uprising in the Philippines that ousted the country's longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The movement's spiritual figurehead was the much-adored Corazon "Cory" Aquino, center above, widow of a popular politician who had been likely assassinated by Marcos agents. Following her quiet heroism, Aquino served as President for six years and became TIME's Woman of the Year in 1986. Harnessing the great love for his family that remains in the Philippines, Aquino's son Benigno Aquino III, also known as Noynoy, was elected President in 2010.

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The Velvet Revolution, Czechoslovakia, 1989
As the death knell sounded for a Soviet Union in terminal decline, protesters in countries across the old Soviet bloc — from Poland to Hungary, Romania to the Baltic states — rose up against the communist parties that had governed them for decades. The most spectacular and sudden revolution took place in Czechoslovakia. On Nov. 17, 1989, students gathered in Prague just a week after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were met with a crackdown by police, but the act only catalyzed the inevitable. The days that followed saw protests of up to half a million in Prague and elsewhere, and on Nov. 28, Prague's communist leadership agreed to relinquish its monopoly on power. Democratic elections were held in June of the following year.

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The Failed August Coup, Russia, 1991
As the Soviet Union headed toward fragmentation and democracy under the stewardship of then President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of hard-liners in the KGB and military attempted to halt the transformation. In a short-lived putsch, they placed Gorbachev under house arrest in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and attempted to seize control of the organs of state in Moscow. But they were thwarted by mass protests there, led by the newly elected President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, who famously stood upon a tank while exhorting the crowds to join in the fight and the military to back down. By Aug. 22, most of the coup plotters had been arrested. The event is considered to have sparked the disintegration of the Soviet Union

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The Bulldozer Revolution, Serbia, 2000
By the time elections rolled around in 2000, Serbian nationalist President Slobodan Milosevic, whose belligerence led in part to the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, had ruled the country for a decade. But glaring voting irregularities in the polls sparked outrage, reaching a peak on Oct. 5 as hundreds of thousands of people massed in Belgrade. The uprising won the moniker of the "Bulldozer Revolution" after an industrial worker drove his heavy-lifting vehicle into the offices of Serbia's state television, leading to the station's takeover by protesters. Milosevic, whose face is being trampled by a protester in this photo, stepped down two days later.

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The Rose Revolution, Georgia, 2003
A parliamentary election in November 2003 was condemned by international observers for its irregularities, sparking massive pro-democracy demonstrations in Tbilisi against Eduard Shevardnadze, a former Soviet Foreign Minister who had served as President of the independent nation of Georgia for eight years. Within weeks, Shevardnadze relented and stepped down, paving the way for the election of the pro-Western Mikheil Saakashvili in 2004; in the years since, the controversial and, according to some, demagogic Saakashvili has attracted his own fair share of critics.

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The Orange Revolution, Ukraine, 2004
Inspired in part by the events in nearby Georgia, activists and demonstrators began occupying central parts of Kiev in November 2004 after it appeared that the results of a runoff vote between Moscow-leaning Viktor Yanukovych and the more pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko had been rigged in favor of Yanukovych. Earlier in the rancorous election campaign, which reflected an increased polarization between the more Russian east of the country and its more Ukrainian west, it seems Yushchenko had suffered dioxin poisoning. He survived, but the murkiness of the alleged assassination attempt further inflamed the situation. Eventually, the protests forced a repeat runoff, which Yushchenko won handily. But the Orange Revolution later lost momentum, and in a 2010 election, Yanukovych swept back into power.

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The Cedar Revolution, Lebanon, 2005
On Feb. 14, 2005, bombs ripped through the motorcade of the influential, two-time Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The assassination convulsed Lebanon, a nation divided by a mosaic of ethnic, religious and political factions, into crisis. In the immediate aftermath, tens of thousands of protesters who saw a Syrian hand in the attacks massed in Beirut against the pro-Syrian President, Emile Lahoud, as well as against the continued presence of Syrian troops on Lebanese soil. The upheaval was branded the "Cedar Revolution" by U.S. officials in the Bush Administration who were eager to cash in on the wave of seemingly pro-Western, pro-democracy uprisings around the world. While the events of the Cedar Revolution compelled Syrian troops to leave Lebanon and eventually ushered Hariri's son into power, they did little to undermine the strength and influence of those likely behind Hariri's assassination — namely the radical Shi'ite group Hizballah, which still commands significant popular support. (In early 2011 it collapsed the government in Beirut over the imminent indictment of some Hizballah members in connection with Hariri's murder.) In this photo, demonstrators hold portraits of Hariri (in coat and tie) and relatives who they say disappeared in Syrian jails.

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The Saffron Revolution, Burma, 2007
As if the ordinary people of Burma didn't have enough to protest about in one of the world's most impoverished, isolated and repressed states, a rise in fuel prices prompted a daring, nonviolent rebellion against the junta. Over a little more than a week in September, thousands of the country's monks, clad in saffron-colored robes, marched on the streets of various cities throughout the country. They were joined by countless more regular Burmese. But the presence of these holy men didn't dissuade the generals: a merciless crackdown eventually dispersed the protests, killing at least 31, according to the U.N., though rights groups imagine that the death toll was far higher. Although it stirred the global imagination for a time, the Saffron Revolution did little to shake the grip that Burma's tyrannical junta has over the state.

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The Tulip Revolution, Kyrgyzstan, 2005
After gaining independence in 1991, the small Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, like the other former Soviet republics neighboring it, was ruled by an ex-Soviet apparatchik turned authoritarian strongman. The regime of Askar Akayev, though initially popular, gradually lost hold of the public as it became increasingly corrupt and repressive. The alleged rigging of elections in February 2005 prompted riots and protests the following month — dubbed the Tulip Revolution — which prompted Akayev (whose portrait is being defaced in this photo) to flee the country and led to the formation of a new government with promises of transparency and democracy. But those promises rang hollow. In 2010, demonstrations and violent protests unseated Akayev's successor, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who, despite his once progressive rhetoric, proved as authoritarian as his predecessor. Kyrgyzstan remains in a fragile political state.

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The Green Revolution, Iran, 2009
The buildup to Iran's 2009 presidential election seemed like an exciting testament to the spirit of democracy in the Islamic Republic. But its aftermath showed how far democracy still had to go: it appeared that incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a fraudulent victory over his closest challenger, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Clad in green, the Mousavi campaign's color, millions of people rallied across the country, coordinating their protests in part with the use of social media like Twitter. But Tehran's leadership cracked down brutally, rounding up dissidents and deploying the Basij militia to wade into the protesters' ranks with truncheons and other weaponry. Dissidents say the death toll numbered well over 100, and Ahmadinejad remained as the country's President. Mousavi (whose portrait, pictured above, is held aloft by a female protester in 2009) remains in an embattled position in Iran and may face prosecution alongside

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The Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia, 2011
On Dec. 17, 2010, an unemployed college graduate set himself on fire in a central Tunisian town as an act of protest against his lack of opportunities in the country. He later succumbed to his injuries, but his death would not be in vain, sparking weeks of protests that eventually forced Tunisia's longtime ruler, President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, to resign his post and flee the country on Jan. 14, 2011. The demonstrations began largely in response to economic concerns but channeled widespread anger in the country at the Ben Ali regime's alleged corruption. Though it remains unclear how much change this dramatic act of people power will bring about, some commentators have hailed the events in Tunisia as a forerunner to greater democratic reform in the Arab world.

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2015 ki aina mana desam lo kuda edaina peaceful movement vachi change ayite bavundu..
[/quote]inka chala time paduthundhi mama...moreover ours is not a failed state...our democracy is succesful though partial..revolution avasaram ledhu...change vasthe chaalu...