Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule, the soldierly Ayub has announced his "irrevocable decision" to step aside at that point, leaving to a discordant array of opposition politicians the task of healing Pakistan's divisions, inflamed by five months of anti-government disorders. Last week new rioting and outbreaks of mob rule in East Pakistan showed just how precarious the task...
Marauding Mobs. Parts of rural Pakistan were afire with a savagery unprecedented in the recent rioting. For the first time, large-scale disorders spread into the countryside north of Dacca, the eastern capital. Marauding mobs of villagers executed at least 60 of Ayub's "basic democrats" (electors) and "criminals" who had allegedly been favorites of the regime; the victims were drowned, beheaded or burned at the stake. Five policemen were killed trying to stop the rampage. In Dacca itself, where four cinemas were sacked and burned, demonstrators and strikers brought the commercial life of the city to a halt...
...only rhetoric, but such rhetoric can have corrosive and hypnotic powers of its own. At its core is not merely hate but a vision of power. During an antiwar demonstration in Washington, New Left Historian Staughton Lynd had an almost mystical vision of mob rule: "It seemed that the great mass of people would simply flow on through and over the marble building, that had some been shot or arrested, nothing could have stopped that crowd from taking possession of its Government. Perhaps next time we should keep going...
...fighting his way to the far doors with the aid of a couple of cops. The crowd was in a nasty mood - which was typical. By the time we got there Pop had realized he was going in the wrong direction and had started back through the howling mob to the stage...
...police repression mounted over five months until the toll was more than 70 dead. Last week alone, in the five days preceding Ayub's radio surrender, at least 38 people died in disorders in West and East Pakistan. Most of the trouble was in the East, where mob rule shook Dacca, the largest city, and army troops with automatic weapons confronted demonstrators who shrilled: "Rise! Rise!" Scores were injured by bayonets and flying lathis, the steel-tipped bamboo sticks used by the police, and attempts at curfews proved useless. But when Ayub's message flashed across the country...