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The state of emergency in France is framed by the Law n°55-385 of 3 April 1955 (pre-dating the constitution of the Fifth Republic) and modeled on the " état de siège ". It was created in the context of the Algerian War, to allow the authorities to manage the crisis without having to declare the " état de siège ", which allows the military ...
The distinction between article 16 and the 1955 Act concerns mainly the distribution of powers: whereas in article 16, the executive power basically suspend the regular procedures of the Republic, the 1955 Act permits a twelve-day state of emergency, after which a new law extending the emergency must be voted by the Parliament of France.
The Battle of Spilia is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an engagement of the Cyprus Emergency that took place in the neighbourhood of the Cypriot village of Spilia on either 11 or 12 December 1955. [6] [7] The engagement involved approximately 12 members of Georgios Grivas ’s EOKA group and a 40 man detachment of the 45 Commando ...
The Cyprus Emergency [note 2] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8] The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.
The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth.
—Deputy Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 March 1945 The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British ...
The Pakistani police intervened, and the Pakistani government blamed Afghan dissidents and severed diplomatic relations. Afghanistan issued an order for the general mobilization of its soldiers and declared a state of emergency on May 6, 1955. Both the Afghan consulate in Pakistan and the Pakistani consulate in Afghanistan were already closed.
Kabaka crisis. The Kabaka crisis was a political and constitutional crisis in the Uganda Protectorate between 1953 and 1955 wherein the Kabaka Mutesa II pressed for Bugandan secession from the Uganda Protectorate and was subsequently deposed and exiled by the British governor Andrew Cohen. Widespread discontent with this action forced the ...