World: Year Dictatorship and Rest

world: But now the thugs are coming back where it all started, according to Hamilton Spectator. The democratic revolution in the Philippines in 1986 was quickly followed by the non-violent overthrow of the generals in Thailand in 1988 though they continued to intervene every few years and then by the fall of Suharto's 30-year dictatorship in Indonesia in 1998. Then the Philippines showed the rest of the world how to get rid of the dictators without violence, and its non-violent example was watched and copied around the world. By then the example had also spread through the rest of Asia democratic revolutions in Taiwan and South Korea and even an attempt at one in China . The democratic wave swept across the rest of the world too; Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in 1989-91, South Africa in 1994, a large number of Latin American and African countries in the past quarter-century, and even a brave but failed attempt at democratization in several Arab countries. But in the cradle of the non-violent revolutions, things are going backwards. More people now live in democratic countries than in dictatorships. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.