[1]Rebellion- open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
Rebellions occur when citizens within a country feel that they are treated unfairly. It is also when the citizens feel as though they have no voice within the country that they are living in and have to take matters into their own hands. Rebellions are usually violent such as the rebellion in [2]Haiti in which thousands of refugees have fled from. Other rebellions are in the form a protest which usually has large amount of people in it such as the protest for African-Americans with [3]Dr. Martin Luther King or with the [4]Chinese protest over the last few years who are complaining about mismanagement and corruption.
Many countries have different ways in which to overcome these rebellions. Some are non-violent while other countries crush the rebellions by force.
[5] For example during the American Civil Rights Movement of 1954 to 1968, the U.S. would convict people to jail to try to end most rebellions. The rebellion was during the time of racial turmoil. Blacks in the country were mistreated and would not put up with it anymore. They would boycott, do sit-ins, etc. to get to current government know that they will not sit still and let this happen to them. One of the most famous events was when [6]Rosa Parks would not give up her seat for a white passenger on a bus. She was then arrested for disorderly conduct and was sent to jail. During this time, many blacks were imprisoned during these protests.
That however was the seemingly non-violent and democratic way of ending a rebellion (except for the [7]Riot of Detroit and Newark in 1967 where 43 people were killed).
The ways in which dictatorships or even communism deals with a rebellion are usually extremely violent.
One of the biggest rebellions was during the [8]Vietnam War. The war started because many people in Vietnam wanted independence from France. At the Treaty of Versailles, Ho Chi Minh, requested that Vietnam be independent but his request was rejected. This would then lead to a rebellion by the [9]Vietcong which would ultimately create the Vietnam War in which millions of lives were claimed. Unlike other rebellions though, the rebels won in this case and made Vietnam a Communist country.
A dictator now however, deals with the situation even more violently. When rebellions arise, dictators will either kill the people outright or do cruelly torment all the participants in the protest. [10]Vlad Dracul earned the nickname of “Vlad the Impaler” where he would invite the “bums” of his town for an extravagant feast and when they are done, he would lock them inside and burn the building down. The more vicious thing that he would do is to kill anyone that opposed him by impalement of a sharpened rod. The person would still be alive during impalement and would die as they slid down on the pole. Other more recent events would be when the Chinese government would shoot any protesters on the spot. The most famous one was where college students would stand protesting outside of the political house and they would be shot down right there on the spot by armed policemen.
Rebellions occur when citizens within a country feel that they are treated unfairly. It is also when the citizens feel as though they have no voice within the country that they are living in and have to take matters into their own hands. Rebellions are usually violent such as the rebellion in [2]Haiti in which thousands of refugees have fled from. Other rebellions are in the form a protest which usually has large amount of people in it such as the protest for African-Americans with [3]Dr. Martin Luther King or with the [4]Chinese protest over the last few years who are complaining about mismanagement and corruption.
Many countries have different ways in which to overcome these rebellions. Some are non-violent while other countries crush the rebellions by force.
[5] For example during the American Civil Rights Movement of 1954 to 1968, the U.S. would convict people to jail to try to end most rebellions. The rebellion was during the time of racial turmoil. Blacks in the country were mistreated and would not put up with it anymore. They would boycott, do sit-ins, etc. to get to current government know that they will not sit still and let this happen to them. One of the most famous events was when [6]Rosa Parks would not give up her seat for a white passenger on a bus. She was then arrested for disorderly conduct and was sent to jail. During this time, many blacks were imprisoned during these protests.
That however was the seemingly non-violent and democratic way of ending a rebellion (except for the [7]Riot of Detroit and Newark in 1967 where 43 people were killed).
The ways in which dictatorships or even communism deals with a rebellion are usually extremely violent.
One of the biggest rebellions was during the [8]Vietnam War. The war started because many people in Vietnam wanted independence from France. At the Treaty of Versailles, Ho Chi Minh, requested that Vietnam be independent but his request was rejected. This would then lead to a rebellion by the [9]Vietcong which would ultimately create the Vietnam War in which millions of lives were claimed. Unlike other rebellions though, the rebels won in this case and made Vietnam a Communist country.
A dictator now however, deals with the situation even more violently. When rebellions arise, dictators will either kill the people outright or do cruelly torment all the participants in the protest. [10]Vlad Dracul earned the nickname of “Vlad the Impaler” where he would invite the “bums” of his town for an extravagant feast and when they are done, he would lock them inside and burn the building down. The more vicious thing that he would do is to kill anyone that opposed him by impalement of a sharpened rod. The person would still be alive during impalement and would die as they slid down on the pole. Other more recent events would be when the Chinese government would shoot any protesters on the spot. The most famous one was where college students would stand protesting outside of the political house and they would be shot down right there on the spot by armed policemen.
[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rebellion
[2] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/hait-f12.shtml
[3] http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
[4] http://www.iwtnews.com/china_protests
[5] http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/travel/civilrights/intro.htm
[6] http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
[7] http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
[8] http://www.vietnampix.com/intro.htm
[9] http://www.vietnampix.com/popvc.htm
[10] http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html
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