Editing 1990s (section)

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[[File:Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat at the White House 1993-09-13.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Bill Clinton]], and [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) Chairman [[Yasser Arafat]] during the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]] on 13 September 1993.]]
*In 1990, the [[Lebanese Civil War]] came to a close and a return to political normalcy in [[Lebanon]] began. With peace among all factions in Lebanon, the rebuilding of the country and its capital, [[Beirut]], began.
*[[1990 Nepalese revolution]], a multiparty movement against the one-party Panchayat rule in Nepal. It led to the end of absolute monarchy in Nepal and the restoration of democracy. 
*[[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] Prime Minister [[Yasser Arafat]] agree to the [[Israeli–Palestinian peace process]] at the culmination of the [[Oslo Accords]], negotiated by the United States President, Bill Clinton, on 13 September 1993.
**By signing the Oslo accords, the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] recognized Israel's right to exist. At the same time, Israel permitted the creation of an autonomous [[Palestinian National Authority]] consisting of the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[West Bank]], which was implemented in 1994.
**Israeli military forces withdrew from these Palestinian territories in compliance with the accord, which marked the end of the [[First Intifada]] (a period of violence between Palestinian Arab militants and Israeli armed forces from 1987 to 1993).
**The Palestinian National Authority was created in 1994 following the Oslo Accords, giving Palestinian Arab people official autonomy over the Gaza Strip and West Bank, though not official independence from Israel.
*On 4 November 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin [[Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin|was assassinated]] by a right-wing extremist who opposed the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]].
*[[Yemen Arab Republic|North Yemen]] and [[South Yemen]] merged to form [[Yemen]] in 1991.
*[[Lee Kuan Yew]] resigned as the Prime Minister of [[Singapore]] on 28 November 1990, a position he had held since 1959, to [[Goh Chok Tong]]. Lee remained in the cabinet as Senior Minister.
*In July 1994, [[North Korea]]n leader [[Kim Il Sung]] died, having ruled the country since its founding in 1948. His son [[Kim Jong Il]], who succeeded him, took over a nation on the brink of complete economic collapse. [[North Korean famine|Famine]] had caused a significant number of deaths in the late 1990s, and North Korea gained a reputation for being an important hub of money laundering, counterfeiting, and weapons proliferation. The country's ability to produce and sell nuclear weapons became a prominent concern in the international community.
*In 1990, [[Aung San Suu Kyi]]'s [[National League for Democracy]] in Burma won a majority of seats in the first free election conducted in 30 years. But the [[State Peace and Development Council|SPDC]] refused to relinquish power, beginning a peaceful{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} struggle that began in the 1990s and continued for several decades, primarily fueled by Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule.
*Indonesian President [[Suharto]] resigned after ruling the country for 32 years (1966–1998), following the [[May 1998 riots of Indonesia|riots]] on several cities in Indonesia. [[Fall of Suharto|His resignation]] marked the beginning of the [[Post-Suharto era in Indonesia|Reform era]].
*In India, the former prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] was [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi|assassinated]] on 21 May 1991 by the [[Tamil Tigers]], beginning a period of [[Economic liberalisation in India|economic liberalization]] led by new Prime Minister [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]].
*After democratic reforms and steady economic growth in the four [[Asia-Pacific]] [[major non-NATO ally|MNNAs]] by the United States and Canada, after the [[Revolutions of 1989]].
**In the [[Philippines]], following the [[People Power Revolution]] of 1986 under the [[Corazon Aquino]] presidency until 1992, democratic reforms and economic policies implemented by two Presidents were elected by [[Fidel V. Ramos]] in 1992, and [[Joseph Estrada]] in 1998.
**South Korea and Taiwan became [[developed country|developed countries]], and two of the [[Four Asian Tigers]] in the 1990s. Following democratic reforms in 1988, neoliberal policies were implemented by President [[Kim Young-sam]] (South Korea) and President [[Lee Teng-hui]] (Taiwan), both who led their countries during the [[1997 Asian financial crisis]].
**Japan saw eight different [[List of prime ministers of Japan|prime ministers]] serve during the 1990s in what was at first called the "Lost Decade" but later became referred to as the "[[Lost Decades]] of the [[Heisei era|Heisei Era]]". These included [[Morihiro Hosokawa]], who won the [[1993 Japanese general election]] and formed an opposition coalition until 1996.