Uganda Riots Probe Delay Raises Concern

IWPR 3 weeks ago Region: Uganda

Apparent foot-dragging prompts fears that role of army will not be properly investigated. By Bill Oketch in Kampala (AR No 234, 27-Oct-09) A parliamentary committee of inquiry set up to investigate alleged abuses dur... more

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China bans illegal assemblies

Wang Fangqing 4 months ago Region: China

 Days after the riot in Urumqi, the biggest city in Western China's Xinjiang province, the government said all assemblies without permission are banned in the city.   The Public Security Bureau of Ur... more

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China blocks Facebook and Twitter

Wang Fangqing 4 months ago Region: China

Beijing is determined when it comes to crack down online information which is considered anti-government. Now, after the riot in Urumqi, it quickly blocked online social communities Facebook and Twitter, as it did to Googl... more

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Ethnic conflicts kills 140 in China

Wang Fangqing 4 months ago Region: China

 Over 1000 rioters gathered in a large market on Sunday afternoon in Urumqi, the center of Western China, attacking passers-by, setting fire to vehicles, interrupting traffic on some roads, reported Xinhua, the o... more

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Dooars on a knife - edge, 2 die

Prolay Bachi 9 months ago Region: United States

Reporting from Siliguri - Ryot broke out in the foot hill of the Himalayas in North Bengal on Saturday mornig, with large part of the Dooars witnessing bloody street fight between the Nepali speaking population and Ad... more

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Witnessing the Greek Riots Through Foreign Eyes

Ms Railey 11 months ago Region: Greece

Athens: Last night I saw a nine-year-old boy wearing a black hood, with his mouth covered by a bandana, hurl glass bottles at the riot police in the heart of the anarchist stronghold, Exarchia. It was 2am, and no one seeme... more

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Protests in Orissa Paralyze Daily Life

Mr. Debasis Pradhan a year ago Region: India

Ordinary and Normal Lives in five major south Districts Of Orissa, viz, Kandhamal, Gajapati, Raygada, Ganjam , Koraput  were frozen or you can say paralyzed on Monday due to 'Town Close' called by the CPI-ML & SU... more

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Request Protection from the west if……

Master_2010 a year ago Region: Russian Federation

  Finally, US reach aggreeement with Polland to settle the anti ballistic missile on the countries. The aggreeement is included to settle 10 units anti ballistic system on the launcher pad silo. The anti ballistic sy... more

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USC Gets Political, But For What?

EGSterne a year ago Region: United States

LOS ANGELES - In the early hours of January 26th around one thousand students faced off against a couple hundred police officers just North of the University of Southern California campus.  For  a long while the ... more

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The Indian Nero – Gujarat Chief Minister Naendra Modi

Sudeep Joseph 2 years ago Region: India

Popular Indian weekly Tehlka claimed that it had indisputable evidence that the killings of Muslims which  arose in 2002, post Godhra train massacre in Gujarat was not a spontaneous swell of anger but a well planned a... more

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