The term colour revolution has been applied to a number of revolutions in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. Participants in colour revolutions have mostly used nonviolent resistance. Massive street-protests followed disputed elections or requests for fair elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders regarded by their opponents as authoritarian.
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The term colour revolution has been applied to a number of revolutions in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. Participants in colour revolutions have mostly used nonviolent resistance. In most but not all cases, massive street-protests followed disputed elections or requests for fair elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders regarded by their opponents as authoritarian. Colour revolutions are notable for the important role of non-governmental organisations and particularly student activists in organising creative non-violent resistance. Many have cited the influence of the series of revolutions which occurred in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Yet the roots of the floral imagery may go even further back to the pacifist Carnation Revolution of 1974, which is associated with carnations and the yellow carnations worn in the Philippines. The first of these was Otpor! in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was founded at Belgrade University in 1986. Most of them were already protest veterans of anti-Miloševic’s Kosovo War of 1996–97 and 9–97 March 9, 1991. The protests began as anti- Milošević anti-war protests in October 1996 and 9-9 March 1991, but they became more violent in March 1998 and 9 March 1991. They were called the ‘People Power Revolution’ and can be traced to the 1986 People Power Revolution in thePhilippines. The movement has had significant connections with that in neighbouring Ukraine, and during the Orange Revolution some white-red-white flags were seen being waved in Kiev. It is claimed that Zubr was responsible for coining the phrase.
During the 2006 protests some called it the “Denim Revolution” or blue jeans being considered a symbol for freedom. Some events have been called ‘colour revolutions’ but differ from the above cases in certain basic characteristics. Examples include Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution and Kuwait’s Blue Revolution. Russia and China share nearly identical views that colour revolutions are the product of machinations by the United States and other Western powers and pose a vital threat to their public and national security. There was civil unrest all over Moldova following the 2009 Parliamentary election due to the opposition claiming that the communists had fixed the election. Eventually, the Alliance for European Integration created a governing coalition that pushed the Communist party into opposition. The protests themselves were declared fairer in the OSCE election monitoring reports than had been the case in other countries where similar revolutions occurred, even though the CIS monitoring mission strongly condemned them. A second, much larger, round of protests began almost a year later, on 19 March 2006, soon after the presidential election. The opposition originally used as a symbol the white- red-white former flag of Belarus; the movement has been linked to that in neighboring Ukraine. Some protesters cut up jeans into ribbons and hung them in public places. A name hypothesised for such an event was \”Grape Revolution\” because of the abundance of vineyards in the country; however, such a revolution failed to materialise after the governmental victory in the elections.
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