Protests erupted and continued for seven weeks before the army was sent to crush dissent.

It does not directly endorse the decision to crush dissent.

When you begin to crush peaceful dissent, you may be making it impossible to respond in any way but in-kind.

Commentators have implied that this may be part of a wider move by Lukashenko to crush internal dissent.

Nevertheless, after the government sought to crush dissent by declaring martial law on May 20, 1989, Wang was drawn deeper into the movement.

Mr. Suharto took the easy way; he crushed dissent by force.

Are their leaders taking advantage of Western attention being focused on Libya to crush dissent?

He also said laws were being examined to determine how they were used by the Hussein government to crush dissent.

His rivals knew the purpose of this army was to crush internal dissent.

No, corporate chairmen are protected by an inner circle, whose job it is to crush dissent.