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9 events.

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1977: 1 event
1978: no events
1979: no events
1980: no events
1981: no events
1982: no events
1983: no events
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1987: no events
1988: 3 events
1989: 5 events

1977 – 2 December 1997 · Other

Chittagong Hill Tracts insurgency, 1977-1997

A two-decade armed conflict over Jumma autonomy and land rights, fuelled by state-sponsored Bengali settlement, ended with a negotiated peace accord.

In: Chittagong Hill Tracts self-government
1988–1989 · Protest

Singing Revolution, 1988-89

A wave of mass public singing gatherings from June 1988, and the 23 August 1989 Baltic Way human chain of over two million people across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, became the defining nonviolent movement for restoring Baltic independence.

In: Estonia
1988 – 12 May 1994 · Other

First Nagorno-Karabakh War, 1988-1994

A war between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that left Armenian forces in control of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani territory for nearly three decades.

In: Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh
1988–1997 · Conflict episode

Bougainville conflict, 1988–1997

An armed conflict that began around the Panguna mine, closed it in 1989 and lasted until a truce in 1997.

In: Bougainville
1 April 1989 · Agreement

Implementation of the Namibia settlement plan begins, 1989

The Security Council set 1 April 1989 as the date on which implementation of the 1978 settlement plan would begin, deploying UNTAG to supervise a cease-fire and the transition to elections.

In: Namibia
17 April 1989 · Other

Founding of the United Wa State Army, 1989

A mutiny against Communist Party of Burma leadership at Pangsang created what became Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed organization.

In: Wa political status
13 July 1989 · Other

Assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 1989

The killing of the KDPI's Secretary-General during talks in Vienna triggered a renewed insurgency that lasted until 1996.

In: Kurdish self-determination in Iran
7 November 1989 – 11 November 1989 · Election

Namibian Constituent Assembly election, 1989

Namibians elected a 72-member Constituent Assembly from 7 to 11 November 1989, in a UN-supervised vote with turnout above 97%; SWAPO won 57.33% of the vote and 41 seats, and the Secretary-General's Special Representative certified the process free and fair.

In: Namibia
28 December 1989 – 1995 · Other

Founding of the Naji-led Balawaristan National Front and factional split, 1989-1995

A reorganized nationalist party later split between a fully secessionist wing and an autonomy-focused wing.

In: Gilgit-Baltistan political-status movements