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...searching, Mohammed found the bodies of his cousins in the city's main morgue. "They had been brutally tortured, cut and burned," he says. "Even their genitals had been mangled." The bodies were buried the next day in the family hometown of Fallujah. Despite a daytime curfew, Mohammed says, many neighboring Shi'ites attended the funeral. "Some of them were very helpful. They helped us make all the arrangements," he says, his voice breaking. Even so, the family decided not to return to Baladiat. "The only Sunni families left there are those who have many sons and many weapons," Mohammed...
...dragging Sunnis into the streets and executing them, looting their homes and burning down their mosques? The proximate cause of the violence was the bombing of al-Askari, the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, but that attack could only partially account for the hatreds unleashed. A government-imposed curfew briefly interrupted the slaughter; after dark the fighting resumed. Ordinary citizens guided assassins to the homes of their neighbors. Iraqis like Isam al-Rawi, a Baghdad University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded. "I have to be ready for anything," he says...
...news of the destruction of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, al-Sadr cut his trip short to return to Iraq to marshal his Mahdi Army, a militia of bristling young Shi'ites who had swarmed the streets, torching Sunni mosques and girding for war. But a government-imposed curfew had closed airports and sealed borders, leaving al-Sadr locked out. His mood was surly. An aide told TIME that when he tried to brief al-Sadr on talks over the formation of Iraq's new government, he snapped, "The government can go to hell...
...every sign now that the King plans to continue in this autocratic vein. In an attempt to head off pro-democracy protests, police detained more than 100 politicians and activists in predawn raids last Thursday, while the government cut phone lines and ordered the army to enforce a daytime curfew in the capital. But tens of thousands of protesters defied the crackdown on Saturday, shouting "Gyanendra leave Nepal" and fighting pitched battles with riot police before being dispersed with tear gas. Hundreds of demonstrators, including several political leaders, were arrested...
...violence that started in the French suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread to over 30 towns and cities has led the French government to temporarily impose a curfew and ban public gatherings. After weeks of rioting in the French Arab and African communities, the situation appears to have calmed down. But the calm is illusory, as the main underlying causes of the riots will most likely remain unaddressed...