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... 6th August. The SMS exposed the names of officers involved in the violence and gave the registration numbers of the cars used. The alert exposed the use of a white Nissan double cab ABM0196 used by a CIO ...
... reading from non-violence literature. Yet, they know that Uganda could not be more repressive than Milosovic's Serbia. In Serbia, young people organised themselves using meagre resources and were later ...
... later this year and he is expected to run for president again next year. Text: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Dozens-Protest-Egyptian-MPs-Call-for-Violence-91600654.html    ...
... reformist opposition says more than 70 people were killed in the post-election violence. Officials say the death toll was half that and included Basij militiamen. Also on Monday, the government banned ...
... the information in order to contain the violence. Information should be released step by step, not at once. If they let people comment freely, anger and hatred will spread quickly and some Han Chinese ...
... Arroyo said. The killings, the worst election-related violence in the country’s history, took place Nov. 23 when relatives of Esmael Mangudadatu, a politician in Maguindanao Province, were intercepted ...
... Since Micheletti took power five months ago, there have been many reports of violence against civilians including abuses suffered by workers, students, women, elderly and children. The government says ...
... other resources needed to prevent an escalation of violence in Conakry or in the country’s other major cities. This plan is not only a necessary measure to prevent the outbreak of a conflict, it also signals ...
... to become allies in combating violence against women. "The current approach is that without men’s involvement, the problem cannot be solved," Karen Daduryan, a senior officer of the U.N. Population Fund ...
... minister, Yuli Edelstein, said Erakat's comments "prove that among the Palestinian leaders, there are many who still believe that they can achieve their goals through violence and terrorism." "I hope the ...
... to a revolution." Other interviewees made similar comments, saying that extreme violence unleashed by the government against protesters has hardened their views about Iran's leaders. "They will not change," ...
A doctor who examined prisoners killed and injured during Iran's post-election violence has died in mysterious circumstances, prompting speculation that he may have been murdered to prevent him speaking ...
... Orlando Luis Pardo said they were beaten Friday by presumed state security agents to keep them away from a ``march against violence.'' Blogger Claudia Cadelo and another woman were detained in the incident, ...
... and tens of thousands of Central Americans to lose their lives to state sanctioned violence, Tomas and all of those who have disappeared remain the most terrifying and silencing bootprint of the military ...
15. Fiddling while Tegucigalpa burns
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... the results remains utterly unresolved, however. Even if the polling goes smoothly – an ever-more unlikely scenario as protests, acts of violence, bomb threats and complaints of curbed civil rights grow ...
... high levels of corruption and violence”, or “the average income in authoritarian China is now twice that of democratic India” or, his ace in the hole, “Haitians who are allowed to elect their governments ...
... to action, violence's inevitable escalation, democracy's slide into dictatorship, impunity's lingerings and a society's tremendous capacity to persevere through it all, heal itself and ultimately advance. ...
... their heads into them. G20 meetings often attract protesters but Saturday's peaceful events contrasted with the violence that has marked some meetings, including the London summit earlier this year. Police ...
... launch the weekly ritual five years ago in an attempt to "re-brand" a Palestinian struggle often associated with rocket attacks and suicide bombers. "Nonviolence is our most powerful weapon," says ...
... of spying and fomenting violence. Hossein Rassam, 44, who served as chief political analyst at the British Embassy in Tehran was sentenced in a closed courtroom earlier this week, according to The Times ...
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Journalists Have Become 'Easy Prey' in Iran » Foreign media were banned from covering this summer's protests in Tehran, while local journalists have been arrested and persecuted.In a SPIEGEL interview, the chairman of Tehran's Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, 51-year-old Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, discusses acts of repression against journalists in Iran in the wake of June protests over the presidential election.
Khomeini ally now leads Iran dissidents » ISTANBUL | Three decades ago, Moshen Sazegara quit his studies at the University of Illinois to join Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s return from exile to lead Iran’s Islamic revolution.A close aide to Ayatollah Khomeini, Mr. Sazegara was a founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, but an eventual falling-out with the clerical regime sent him back to the United States as an exile.
Mugabe cannot be part of Zimbabwe’s road to democracy » South Africa’s main political opposition, the Democratic Alliance (DA), on Thursday said Robert Mugabe cannot be part of Zimbabwe’s road to democracy, saying the dictator must be offered an ‘exit strategy’ for the country to ever recover.The party presented its ‘Roadmap to Democracy in Zimbabwe’ in the South African parliament on Thursday morning, as a response to the MDC’s decision to disengage from ZANU PF in the unity government. DA Parliamentary Leader Athol Trollip told SW Radio Africa that...
Melbourne Sri Lankans demonstrate seeking immediate release of civilians » An unruly situation emerged when a group of LTTE activists in Australia tried to obstruct a peace rally organized by a number of Sri Lankan residents in Melbourne on Saturday morning. Sri Lankan residents in Melbourne organized a peaceful demonstration in front of the Melbourne State Parliament displaying banners demanding that the LTTE release civilians in the Wanni. Around 2000 people took part in the demonstration.  The demonstration was staged for several hours before a group of LTTE activis...
Algiers police fire on slum protest » People living in a slum district of the Algerian capital have taken to the streets for a second day to protest against job and housing shortages.Residents of the Diar Echams area, frustrated over high unemployment and inadequate housing, clashed with police on Wednesday having started their protest on Monday night.The police said at least 11 officers were hurt, although no figure of civilian casualties was given.Protesters had used high ground above the suburb to throw bricks, stones and petrol ...
Peace activists occupying castle » Three peace protesters have occupied the keep at Cardiff Castle in a demonstration over the 'occupation of land in Palestine'. The three got into the keep after buying a ticket for a castle tour and used a bar to block the entrance. Dee Murphy, Bob Cotterill and Keith Ross said they plan to stay for a while, possibly days, and have stressed they have no wish to damage the castle.
Dozens Protest Egyptian MP's Call for Violence » Several dozen demonstrators rallied outside of Egypt's parliament Tuesday, two days after a member of President Hosni Mubarak's party said opposition activists should be shot.Some of the protesters in Cairo carried banners saying "shoot us," an apparent reference to comments made by National Democratic Party member Nashaat al-Qasas.
Non-Violent Resistance » What is Non-Violent Resistance?Non-Violence is an alternative to either armed resistance or passive acceptance of the status quo. It is both a strategy and a philosophy which rejects violence as a means to promote change, and instead aims to change power relations through assertive acts of omission (refusal to do something) or commission (actively challenging the status quo). It is a method by which to change the minds of both the oppressor and oppressed so that a new reality can be built upon d...
Israeli Army attacks Non-violent protest in Palestine » Beit Ummar: At a protest against Israel's destruction of Palestinian land. A crowd of young Palestinians clap and sing songs toward the Israeli Occupation Forces while the older Palestinian protestors are attacked by the Israeli soldiers. Video shot while working with the ISM (international solidarity movement) this summer, 2006  
Suicide protest in Vietnam » The authorities in Vietnam have confirmed that a badly burned body has been found in a park in the central coastal city of Danang. The Paris-based Buddhist Information Bureau says it was that of a man who committed suicide on Sunday by burning himself as a protest against religious repression. Such suicides in Vietnam, although they do not happen often, are a reminder of the monks who self-immolated in the 1960s to protest against religious repression by what was then a US-backed government i...