Word: independentista
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...over the city, crowds began upsetting and burning British cars and police jeeps. They burst into the city hall and ran an Italian flag up to half-staff. On the third day they broke into Independentista headquarters, threw furniture, draperies and records out of the windows. When the rioters surged toward the Piazza dell'Unitá again, the police tried to stop them with jeep and motorcycle charges. Then they fired their carbines into the crowd, and that cleared the square, except for the dead and wounded...
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