The government said it was facing a fiscal crisis and a rebel uprising in the eastern provinces that border the volatile Darfur region of Sudan.

It began in early 2003 with a rebel uprising that demanded greater political and economic rights for the long-marginalized west.

But the grinding poverty that provoked the first rebel uprising in 1994 continues to trap the Indians.

He also was responsible for talks to end to the rebel uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.

It turns out that these raw diamonds were mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the midst of a rebel uprising.

Earlier this year, the Government seemed intent on negotiating an end to the rebel uprising in southern Mexico before the presidential election in late August.

The guerrilla raids were viewed nonetheless as the most serious provocation in the rebel uprising since both sides agreed to a cease-fire last January.

Antonio Bautista is best remembered for his final combat Mission against a rebel uprising on January 9, 1974.

When his master and his sando were later killed in a rebel uprising against a corrupt lord, Bang Ja began roaming the country as a thief.

February 29, 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following a popular rebel uprising.