before
In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 ...
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before
... him to be tried in The Hague for crimes against humanity. (MILOSEVIC died in March 2006 before the completion of his trial.) In 2001, the country's suspension from the UN was ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
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Turkish lira (TRY); old Turkish lira (TRL) before 1 January 2005
www.exxun.com/Turkey/e_ec.html
before
... discussion of a maritime boundary; Guyana has expressed its intention to join Barbados in asserting claims before the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that Trinidad and Tobago ...
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/i_ti.html
before
... trafficked to South Africa for farm work, often laboring for months in South Africa without pay before "employers" have them arrested and deported as illegal immigrants; young women and girls are lured ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/i_ti.html
began
... are estimates; there are no available current statistics on religious affiliation; all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice
www.exxun.com/Albania/c_pp.html
began
... what the secular elite feared would be an extremist-led government from assuming power. The army began a crackdown on the FIS that spurred FIS supporters to begin attacking government targets. The ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
began
... services and contribute to meeting the large unfulfilled demand for basic residential telephony; internet broadband services began in 2003 with approximately 200,000 subscribers in 2006 international: country code - 213; landing point for ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/f_cm.html
began
... and the network has been extended to larger towns; a privately-owned, mobile-cellular service provider began operations in 2001 international: country code - 244; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/f_cm.html
began
... until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas south of the Antarctic Circle. Not until ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/a_fg.html
began
... primarily Armenian-populated region, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the area in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/a_fg.html
began
... undergoing modernization and expansion; mobile-cellular services monopoly terminated in late 2004 and a second provider began operations in mid-2005 domestic: reliable modern landline and mobile-cellular services are available across ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/f_cm.html
began
These uninhabited islands came under Australian authority in 1931; formal administration began two years later. Ashmore Reef supports a rich and diverse avian and marine habitat; in 1983, it became a National ...
www.exxun.com/AshmoreandCartierIslands/a_fg.html
began
... Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt ...
www.exxun.com/Australia/a_fg.html
began
... industrial development. Oil production under the first of these PSAs, with the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, began in November 1997. A consortium of Western oil companies began pumping 1 million barrels a ...
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/e_ec.html
began
... set foot in the New World on San Salvador in 1492. British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. Since attaining independence from the UK ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/a_fg.html
began
Europeans began to set up trading posts in the area of Bangladesh in the 16th century; eventually the British came to dominate the region and it became part of British India. In ...
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/a_fg.html
began
... side, the government has succeeded in balancing its budget, and income distribution is relatively equal. Belgium began circulating the euro currency in January 2002. Economic growth in 2001-03 dropped sharply because of ...
www.exxun.com/Belgium/e_ec.html
began
... and the establishment of a government based on Marxist-Leninist principles. A move to representative government began in 1989. Two years later, free elections ushered in former Prime Minister Nicephore SOGLO as ...
www.exxun.com/Benin/a_fg.html
began
... tourists, mainly from the US, visited the islands in 2005. In the mid-1980s, the government began offering offshore registration to companies wishing to incorporate in the islands, and incorporation fees now ...
www.exxun.com/BritishVirginIslands/e_ec.html
began
... domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/a_fg.html
began
... national accounts to determine a realistic GDP figure. Most overseas development assistance ceased after the junta began to suppress the democracy movement in 1988 and subsequently refused to honor the results of ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
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