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mil·i·ta·ry jun·ta

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. military junta, juntanoun

    a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power

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  1. military junta

    A military junta is a form of government where political power is seized and controlled by a group of military leaders through a coup or some form of political upheaval. This type of government is often characterized by repression, censorship, and human rights violations. The term is often used in Latin America to refer to regimes that came to power in this way.

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  1. Military junta

    A junta or military junta is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term derives from the Spanish word junta meaning committee or meeting, specifically a board of directors. Sometimes it becomes a military dictatorship, though the terms are not synonymous.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of military junta in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of military junta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of military junta in a Sentence

  1. Frontier Myanmar:

    We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists.

  2. Human Rights Watch:

    Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

  3. Elaine Pearson:

    The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

  4. Duwa Lashi La:

    With the responsibility to protect life and properties of the people, The NUG... launched a people's defensive war against the military junta.


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