A military group that rules a country after taking power by force.
the military junta killed roughly 30,000 people within one to two years
Example sentencesExamples
- Her sentence was reduced by order of the head of the country's ruling military junta.
- The President was ousted by a military junta in May 1999.
- The agency is playing an advisory role in the establishment of trade unions which were banned under the military junta.
- He was arrested a few days later by the new military junta.
- Unspeakable torture was meted out under orders of the military junta.
- In 1994 the military junta relinquished control to an international peacekeeping force.
- He comments that the trial of the Argentine military junta did not end the 'wilful blindness about widespread public sympathy for dictatorship'.
- He visited the country in October for four days of separate talks with leaders of the military junta.
- His outspokenness had resulted in numerous attests and detentions under the country's past military juntas.
- The military junta has said it will not respond to pressure.
- In 1964, he was forced into exile by a military junta.
- Left unanswered is whether new charges can be brought against the surviving members of the former military juntas.
- The EU mission hopes to pave the way for the start of dialogue between the military junta and democracy leaders.