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| 1975 |
| | | Khmer Rouge guerrillas, led by Pol Pot, take Phnom Penh and launch a genocidal reign of terror in Cambodia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia begins decades of guerrilla resistance and brutal repression | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Steve Biko, founder of Black Consciousness, dies of head wounds received in police custody in Pretoria | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Saddam Hussein begins a reign of terror in Iraq, reading out at a meeting the names of fellow Ba'thists who are to be taken out and shot | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) is declared illegal by the Polish government | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Confronted with mass popular protest, Deng Xiaoping imposes martial law in China | |
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| 1989 |
| | | More than 2000 peaceful demonstrators die after troops open fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic encourages ethnic cleansing by paramilitaries in Bosnia | |
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