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...They yelled at him and called him a collaborator." - a lawyer at the scene of a demonstration last year against Musharraf's emergency military rule, after Qureshi, as Punjab PPP president, was booed when he walked into the protest. (New York Times, November...
...Jordan, another country to have made its peace with the Jewish state, officially at least, angry members of parliament burned the Israeli flag in a rare parliamentary protest. "It has been proven that making peace with Israel is a strategic mistake," a senior Jordanian official told TIME. "Israel is proving every day that it is not interested in peace. The Israeli actions are spitting in the face of Jordan and Egypt...
...average Guinean earns just $91 a month. Civil servants last year joined in food riots because their salaries were no longer enough to buy a bag of rice. In early November police and soldiers shot dead at least four demonstrators in Conakry when hundreds of youths burned barricades in protest at high fuel prices. A Human Rights Watch report quoted a witness in Conakry describing police and soldiers "targeting youths and chasing them into private residences, firing indiscriminately...
Another contrast to 1989 is the fact that the Party's leadership is solidly united about how this crisis needs to be tackled so as to best preserve its authority. Internal disputes about how to handle the Tiananmen protest allowed them to drag on for months and swell in size. This time, says Li, although they may disagree about some of the details, there is solidarity at the highest level to avoid any sign of a split among the top leadership. "This generation of leaders had two defining experiences in their lives," says Li, "the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen. From...
...called Thank You for Throwing Your Shoe to give other frustrated critics of the war a metaphorical chance to raise a shoe at President Bush. The site encourages visitors to add their own images to a simple gallery of photographs showing people holding up their potential footwear projectiles to protest the Iraq war. One of the site's creators, reached by phone, did not want to divulge his name - "This is a photo project, not a political campaign, and we value our privacy" - but explained that he and a co-creator sent a few dozen e-mails about the site...