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A massive security clampdown aimed at restoring order resulted in major bloodshed, particularly in the capital, Baku.
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Black opposition leaders are arrested, a press clampdown begins and resistance is strangled.
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Human rights observers said it was the most swingeing clampdown that the world had known on the free use of cyberspace.
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If the military were to seize power under Bourbollon, the clampdown would be fierce.
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In mid-1990, martial law was formally lifted but the security clampdown remains currently in force.