English-Danish translations for insurrection

• oprør
  Følgen heraf var væbnet oprør. Armed insurrection has been the result.
  Negri, der er dømt for væbnet oprør mod den italienske stat, og som for tiden er delvist på fri fod, har givet udtryk for det i en bog. Negri, imprisoned for armed insurrection against the Italian state and now partially free, expressed the same view in a book.
  Fra min ungdom husker jeg Mau Mau-oprøret, der blev beskrevet som et terroroprør. From my childhood, I remember the Mau Mau uprising, which was described as a terrorist insurrection.
• opstand
  EULEX-missionen omfatter også 500 politifolk til bekæmpelse af opstand. The EULEX mission also includes 500 policemen to combat insurrection.
  Den 26. januar afholdt EULEX og KFOR en fælles øvelse i bekæmpelse af opstand. On 26 January EULEX and KFOR held a joint exercise on combating insurrection.

Definition of insurrection

• A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority

Related words

• insurrectionist
• insurrectionary
• insurrectionalism