ABSTRACT
It is characteristic of liberation movements that a variety of motives operate within them. Participants are united in the realization that farreaching changes are necessary and that the repressive regime constitutes an obstruction of the future goal. However, as soon as they attempt to put into words what minimal changes should be carried out or what is the desired form of government, differences in opinion arise. Repressive authorities understand these conditions. Without exception they apply the mechanisms of 'divide and rule'. Therefore, no two groups are repressed in the same way. There is always an elite which profits if the existing order is retained and which therefore opposes all changes, but even among the people who do suffer from repression there is a fear of losing what privileges they still have. There is usually only a minority that has nothing to lose. The commonly experienced repression has many faces.
