This group gathers events that began between 2000 Onward, placed among the events of The Contemporary World. The twenty-first century opened with the September 11 attacks and was marked by uprisings and protest movements across the Middle East and Asia. An event belongs here when its cited article gives a start date inside this span. It excludes events that began earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same period, and it does not turn on how large or famous an event was.
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Wikipedia: September 11 Attacks
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The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were a coordinated series of suicide attacks perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
Wikipedia: 2011 Bahraini uprising
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The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant and some Sunni minority Bahraini opposition from 2011 until 2014.
Wikipedia: Yemeni revolution
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The Yemeni revolution, also known as the Yemeni intifada, was a series of major anti-government protests and armed uprisings that raged through Yemen from January 2011 to February 2012.
Wikipedia: 2008 Tibetan unrest
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The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of protests and demonstrations that initially occurred over the Chinese Communist Party's treatment and persecution of Tibetans.
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