List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1990s

1990s

• 1990–present: United Liberation Front of Asom launch major violent activities against Indian rule in Assam.To date, the resulting clashes with the Indian army have left more than 10,000 dead.
• 1990–1992: Anticommunist forces led a National Democratic Revolution that overthrew President Ramiz Alia and ended with the win of elections by Democratic Party of Albania the biggest anticommunist party in Albania.
• 1990–1995: The Log Revolution in Croatia starts, triggering the Croatian War of Independence.
• 1990–1995: The First Tuareg Rebellion in Niger and Mali.
• 1991: The Kurdish uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan.
• 1991: The Shiite Uprising in Karbala, Iraq.
• 1991: The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front take control of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after dictator Haile Mariam Mengistu flees the country, bringing an end to the Ethiopian Civil War
• 1991: Somaliland becomes de facto independent from Somalia
• 1992–1995: Bosnian War of Independence.
• 1992: An Afghan uprising against the Taliban by United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, or the Northern Alliance.
• 1994: The 1990s Uprising in Bahrain, Shiite-led rebellion for the restoration of democracy in Bahrain.
• 1994: The Zapatista Rebellion: an uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas demanding equal rights for indigenous peoples and in opposition to growing neoliberalism in North America.
• 1994–1996: The First Chechen Rebellion against Russia.
• 1996: An Islamic movement in Afghanistan led by the Taliban established Taliban rule.
• 1997: The 1997 rebellion in Albania sparked by Ponzi scheme failures.
• 1997–1999: The Kosovo Rebellion against Yugoslavia.
• 1998: The election in Venezuela of socialist leader Hugo Chávez is called the Bolivarian Revolution.
• 1998: The Indonesian Revolution of 1998 resulted the resignation of President Suharto after three decades of the New Order period.
• 1999–present: The Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia.
• 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran.