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...irony lost on corpses, analysts say, the arrest of drug leaders often only leads to more violence. When narcotrafficker Wilber Verela, alias "Jabon," was murdered in Venezuela in 2008, seven allegedly related deaths followed the next week in Bogota, intelligence sources said. And after the April 1 arrest of Fabio Edison Gomez, alias "Rinon," the leader of Medellin's main crime organization, 33 people were killed in a week, according to the city's police. The renewed upsurge in violence led to the government dispatching some 500 soldiers and 6,800 police to poor neighborhoods in the city. But major...
...shirts staged a mass rally in Bangkok on April 8, during which Thaksin, addressing the crowd by video phone, urged them to rise up in a "people's revolution." The red shirts subsequently stormed a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Pattaya, forcing its cancellation and the evacuation of regional leaders, attempted to physically attack Prime Minister Abhisit on two occasions, and launched a sometimes violent an chaotic protest in the capital, during which they burned buses, set off small bombs, threatened to blow up a gas tanker, blocked traffic on major roads, and shot and killed...
...through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring in at the maximum number of 3000 every day in April. (See pictures from a day in the life of Taiwan's former president...
...past 19 years on June 4, large crowds have gathered for candlelight vigils at Hong Kong's Victoria Park to remember the hundreds who died that day in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. This year, which brings the loaded 20th anniversary of the student political movement that began on April 15 and ended in June 1989, activists here are already busy holding discussion panels and meetings across the city. Hong Kong, with its unique political and legal traditions, is the only city under China's rule that permits activities observing the 1989 democracy movement, and has become a hub for activists...
...very long after Hu Yaobang's death on April 15 - two years after Deng removed him from the leadership post - that members of this generation of activists gathered together. The meetings started on April 17, when 700 people went to Tiananmen Square. The next day, 1,500 students demonstrated in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, and demanded that Hu's political standing - blemished by his removal from power - be rehabilitated. "By the time Hu's funeral came around, 200,000 students had settled in the large public square, a place that would remain the center of activities until...