For dissent has been brutally suppressed over the last 30 years.

He brutally suppressed the peaceful campaign movement for a return to democratic government.

It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes of the country.

In 1953 a workers' uprising was brutally suppressed by Soviet troops.

Since the beginning of this year alone, three peaceful demonstrations have been brutally suppressed.

The people are being brutally suppressed, and the military dictatorship has not the slightest respect for human rights.

The protests were brutally suppressed by the police and army, with many protesters arrested.

They were forced off their land after British settlers began arriving in 1788 and then brutally suppressed.

Although the revolution was brutally suppressed, it marked a great change in the colonial rule and policy.

With so many people brutally suppressed, revolts and revolution were common in Mexico.