Word: curfews
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When darkness falls, the remaining residents, mostly Serbs, retreat into their homes, respecting the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. Distant artillery fire rumbles through the night. And the militiamen drink. Humanitarian groups receive frequent reports of inebriated Serbs searching out and murdering any remaining Muslims they can find...
...village of Celinac, some miles farther south. The hamlet is officially off-limits to all outsiders. A decree issued by the Celinac municipality gives the Muslim population a "special status" similar to that of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Muslims must observe a 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. Muslims are "not allowed to stay in the street, in restaurants and other public places." Muslims are forbidden to swim in the rivers, to fish or hunt, to use or drive motor vehicles, to be in groups of more than three, to use telecommunications facilities except for a post-office...
When the smoke cleared after mobs burned through South Central Los Angeles in April, hundreds of businesses, many of them black owned, had been destroyed. Yet not a single McDonald's restaurant had been torched. Within hours after the curfew was lifted, all South Central's Golden Arches were back up and running, feeding fire fighters, police and National Guard troops as well as burned-out citizens. The St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School, with 300 hungry students and no utilities, called for lunches and got them free -- with delivery to boot...
...Quist did not expect tograduate from Harvard nine years later; he did notplan on going to college at all. "I was a naughtyboy," he says. "I was almost shot one time."Walking home with a friend after curfew on thestreets of Accra (the capital of Ghana), he waspassing the police headquarters and decided totake a closer look at a bronze plaque he had neverstudied before...
...overnight curfew ended, a squad of soldiers lifted barbed-wire barricades from the middle of Rangoon's tree-lined University Avenue. Then they took up positions, as they do every day, at four sentry boxes in front of the residential compound where Aung San Suu Kyi, 46, the leader of Burma's democratic opposition, has been under house arrest since July...