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They have stripped the young man of his shirt, and are pummelling his skull. His hair and face are covered with blood and he is reeling about in a daze, too weak even to protest; yet blows from sticks and fists of the angry men keep raining down on him. This kind of scene, taking place on a main road in the neighborhood of Chabhail, a suburb of Kathmandu, has been all too common in the past two weeks in Nepal, where the police have often brutally attacked peaceful protestors with sticks and batons...
...Sunday it was the protestors themselves who were dispensing the brutality. Word had spread among the crowd gathered in Chabahil, a hotbed of the protest movement, that a dozen or so police informers had infiltrated the crowd. No sooner were at least three men, despite their protests of innocence, beaten so badly that they were taken away by ambulance to a hospital. Then a rumor broke out that another informer had escaped into a neighboring four-story building. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the owner open up. The owner shouted back that the informer had gone...
...reflex response to reform in France is often protest, just imagine tackling the issues that last fall provoked the worst rioting the country had seen since the upheavals of May 1968. But after nearly four decades of neglect, a major offensive is under way to transform the banlieues, the blighted suburban ghettos that ring many French cities. Leading the drive is the French Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing, Jean-Louis Borloo. "When you have all of society's difficulties, failings and hardships so concentrated in the same places, you need an audacious, comprehensive plan to address them...
...beauty and grace. Its devoted pursuit can dignify the athlete and inspire the observer. Instead, our athletes are objects of economic discrimination and public contempt that would not be tolerated if directed against any other group of students. They are the last students who can be openly stereotyped without protest from the student body or the University...
...downside of that is that with no leader, no ideology and no apparent organization, the protests have no discernible direction. Political party leaders had promised that today hundreds of thousands of people would march on the palace and demand Gyanendra's head. Instead, with the palace merely a few miles away, the demonstrators chose to confront the police and army deployed along Kathmandu's ring road, turning it into a circle of fire around the capital. At least three people died when police opened fire on one protest in Kalanki to the southwest, and all afternoon the entire city...