People like this will never lead a popular insurgency.
Nor did anyone predict that Mr. Berisha's misrule would ignite the popular insurgencies that have left the country such a thoroughly disorganized armed camp.
Nevertheless, it has been argued that British behaviour overall was good compared to most other examples where a foreign army suppressed a popular insurgency.
A consequent string of coups and popular insurgencies shook the country, and northern-led rebellion in 2002 violently split it in half.
"This is now a popular insurgency," the diplomat said.
In 1989, a widespread popular and armed insurgency started in Kashmir.
Methods and techniques developed for a ruthless dictatorship already in power are not necessarily the best way to create a popular insurgency.
By August of that year, a full-blown popular insurgency had developed in northern regions that were occupied by the new government forces.
Come to think of it, the Hashemites maintained themselves in the face of a popular insurgency in 1970, no?
They consider the expulsion or flight of ethnic Albanians to be a regrettable aspect of that war against a popular, village-based insurgency.