1983: Difference between revisions

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January 3 - Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union initiate the Gukurahundi, a series of violent ethnic massacres and pogroms designed to quell dissent among the Ndebele tribe.
April 3 - The 1983 Lucanamarca Massacre occurs when Shining Path kills 69 people in and around the town of Lucanamarca.
June 5 - Beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War.
July 10 - Martial law in Poland is lifted. The Military Council of National Salvation is disbanded.
July 23 - The Sri Lankan Civil War begins when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam begin an insurgency to create an independent state of Tamil Eelam.
August 4 - Thomas Sankara comes to power in Upper Volta following a successful coup.
August 8 - Efraín Ríos Montt is deposed as President of Guatemala in a coup lead by Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores.
August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr. is assasinated at the Manila International Airport (now known as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport), allegedly on the orders of President Ferdinand Marcos.
December 10 - The National Reorganization Process junta of Argentina is dissolved.
Unknown - The Family Research Council is founded.

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 *August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr. is assasinated at the Manila International Airport (now known as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport), allegedly on the orders of President [[Ferdinand Marcos]].
 *December 10 - The [[National Reorganization Process]] junta of Argentina is dissolved.
+*Unknown - The [[Family Research Council]] is founded.
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