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... Serb forces, who claimed that the safe havens were being used to launch attacks on their positions. The massacre of over 8,000 men and boys ensued followed the capitulation of Bosnian Muslim forces. Trifunovic ...
... and police brutality that is widely considered to be systemic in Egypt’s police and security forces. “It’s clear to everyone that there is something wrong in this report,” says Moataz El Fegiery, executive ...
... before the rally, the two main organizers were arrested and investigated during the entire day. They appeared later on separate video messages where they were forced by the security forces to call off ...
... political forces, which in the past did contaminate them. It has challenged them to criticize their own actions, denouncing their inadequacy. Instead, the purple movement has been working on the creation ...
... non-violence methods until apartheid snapped. Only a few years ago, South Africa seemed headed for a blood bath. The ANC and other forces in the African community were escalating the internal struggle ...
... activists, but Popovic says the organization has never worked inside the country.) Following the Orange and Rose revolutions, Belarusian TV suggested that Otpor-inspired forces were conspiring to bring ...
... of a peace agreement signed by Gbagbo's government and the New Forces rebels in 2007, after a civil war that had split the country into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south. The unity government ...
The US has accused Iran of seeking a "near-total information blockade" to silence anti-government protesters. The allegations came after opposition supporters clashed with security forces as Iran marked ...
Security forces fire tear gas and plastic bullets at thousands of protesters in Caracas and elsewhere after RCTV is banned for violating a law that requires stations to air the president's speeches. Reporting ...
... previous protests.” There are no plans for street demonstrations on Monday but students plan to hold demonstrations inside universities, which security forces are banned from entering. However, hard-line ...
11. Iranians rally against leaders
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TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces and paramilitary groups broke up anti-government demonstrations in central Tehran on Monday, using clubs, tear gas and electric batons to disperse crowds outside the University ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces fired warning shots in Tehran on Monday and beat opposition protesters among thousands seeking to renew their challenge to the government six months after a disputed ...
...  Rooftop protests heard at the height of the unrest in June and July stopped after Basiji forces started patrolling at night, marking the buildings where the chant could be heard above. Arrests would ...
... concern" last month at widespread reports of rights violation in the North. Pyongyang's immediately rejected it as "a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces against" the North. "(North Korea) categorically ...
... forces in Honduras today. There were rumors of a plan for a mass massacre but so far there are reports of one man killed and dozens of detained civilians. President Manuel Zelaya has said that today there ...
... Security forces snuffed out protests with teargas, clubs and in some cases live rounds, leaving hundreds injured and several dead. Zelaya sneaked back into the country in September but failed to rally ...
17. Redefining Protest in Copenhagen
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... forces to form Captain Planet. At the entrance, Isa stops someone for bringing a bike with a lock. "The idea is the recycle bicycles, not to steal them." Inside the main building, people rush around toting ...
... Dadis Camara took power in December 2008, political tensions have constantly increased. They reached the point of no return on 28 September, when security forces executed demonstrators, killing 160 people ...
... were threats to security. Officially the armed forces have been turned over to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) 30 days prior to the elections. The National Front Against the Coup D’état in an announcement ...
... In some cases, the shah's forces opened fire on crowds of demonstrators and many political prisoners said they suffered extensive torture in prisons. Now, political activists say the treatment of detainees ...
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Guinea to hold election despite bloody protest » CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's leader, who seized power in a coup nine months ago, said Friday that elections will continue as planned even as his military junta prepared to bury 57 people who died when troops fired live ammunition into a pro-democracy rally.Wearing a crisp military uniform, Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara laid a wreath in memory of the victims of Monday's massacre. Camara previously said he had no control over the troops — including his own presidential guard force — who committed the ...
Would you live on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall? » Not so long ago I was at a supper party about which I can give no other details than that the Cuban Ambassador and a well-known political industrialist were present. At some late, lubricated point between cheese and liqueurs, the captain of industry commended the man from Havana for his country’s imperviousness to such destabilising currents as democracy and individualism. Better stability, said the peer, winking, than chaos! I have heard the same thing, from similar sources, about China. It n...
The Story Behind the Uruguayan Elections » The international headlines all read something to this effect, "In Uruguay: Ex-Guerrilla Fighter Headed for Runoff Vote in November." Attention-grabbing as it is, that headline doesn't do justice to the complex story behind this ex-guerrilla fighter being on the verge of becoming Uruguay's next president. This story intertwines plot lines of economic hardship's goad towards anger, social inequity's call to action, violence's inevitable escalation, democracy's slide into dictatorship, impunity's ...
Fight resumes over Iran cabinet » Iranian MPs have resumed a heated debate on the nominees for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new cabinet. The Majlis holds a confidence vote on Wednesday, but correspondents say the president is struggling to win backing in the predominantly conservative body. The latest objections by MPs have been levelled at his choice for education minister, one of three women nominees. Iran is mired in political turmoil after Mr Ahmadinejad's re-election, which triggered huge street protests.
Iranian students protest bad food and University administration »   NCRI - On Saturday, 1,500 Tehran University students protesting over the bad food at the cafeteria clashed with the State Security Forces (SSF). Ambulances were rushed to the scene, according to eyewitnesses.More than 20 people were injured in clashes between the students shouting anti-regime slogans and the SSF who were forcing students to return to university campus, one eyewitness said.The protests over the bad food started on Friday but soon the event turned into an ...
Fiddling while Tegucigalpa burns » Of the many lessons to be learned from the Honduran political crisis, perhaps the most important one for would-be deal brokers is that if you get involved, prepare to stay involved.The Organisation of American States, Costa Rican, Brazilian, Chilean and, most recently, US negotiators at even the highest levels have thrown up their hands in dismay at the intransigence on display. The agreement at the end of last month, which was praised by the Obama administration as a landmark in inter-American ...
Tacoma Police arrest nonviolent protesters against Strykers » Three people were arrested for peacefully protesting at the Port of Tacoma at about 12:30 AM Monday morning, March 5, 2007. They were protesting the shipment of Stryker Brigade armored vehicles from Fort Lewis to the illegal war and occupation in Iraq. Caitlin Esworthy was arrested within second after the Tacoma Police Disorder Response Team confronted the protest. Another person, Navy veteran Wally Cuddeford, was then brutally dragged on his stomach (and tasered three times) just after his ar...
Justice for Latin America's Disappeared? » Buenos Aires, Argentina - On September 3, 2009, three aging, retired officials from Argentina's army entered a federal courthouse in Rosario, Argentina. The men - Pascual Guerrieri, Jorge Alberto Fariña and Juan Daniel Amelong - have been charged with the kidnapping, forced disappearance and torture of 29 people, and the murder of 17 of them during Argentina's last dictatorship. The case in Rosario is the latest in a tidal wave of cases to reach a courthouse against the dictatorships of the So...
Dictator Hugo Chavez and life in Venezuela today » Video about life in Venezuela and dictator Hugo Chavez. Ispired by the documentary "Revolucion" by Charles Gervais and sountracked by revolutionary LA band Rage Against The Machine.
Burma: Suu Kyi 'can play a role' » Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein has told Asian leaders the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi can contribute to national reconciliation.It was not clear if that meant Burma's military would allow her to take part in next year's elections. The Burmese PM was speaking at the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) regional summit in Thailand. The leaders were strongly criticised by activists for their failure to demand more of Burma on ending military rule. "He [the Burmese p...