Then in 1990 a 27-year-old professor of Marxism named Zorig led a peaceful uprising that introduced democracy and capitalism.

Opposition leaders are urging the Lebanese people to join a peaceful uprising.

The peaceful uprising of this small nation against a powerful oppressor became largely known abroad.

They are responding to the quashing of a democratic movement that swelled in 1988 with a peaceful nationwide uprising.

The ruling junta came to power in 1988 after crushing a peaceful pro-democracy uprising with a crackdown that took the lives of hundreds of people.

That peaceful uprising was crushed when the army fired into the crowds, killing hundreds of people.

It claimed that the regime's own security forces had blown up the pipeline in order to engineer an excuse to "crush the peaceful uprising".

He ends the tract by calling for non-violent action and for a peaceful uprising against the powers of finance capitalism.

Their role was far from the only factor driving the peaceful uprising that has halted the government here.

But the generals have withstood international condemnation since they seized power in 1988 by crushing a peaceful popular uprising.