Word: provokingness
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Kozulin: Now they will cordon the square off and try to keep the people out. But the people will be coming tomorrow anyway. We have always called for peaceful protests, but now Lukashenko provokes violence. He will bear the entire responsibility, should it happen. The authorities should have learned to...
At greatest risk in the tempest is Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who drove the pending law through parliament earlier this month without debate - and against the advice of fellow conservatives wary of provoking the very hostility the government now faces. The protesting youths are outraged that the law would...
Q: What you have just described would be difficult to achieve in almost any society. In Iraq, where, in addition to all the problems of normal multiethnic, multireligious society, you also have forces that are actively provoking division, is it even possible?
A: The Samarra crisis could help push them, encourage them to go in this direction. If they didn't have a feeling that there was a concerted effort at provoking civil war by the enemies of Iraq, they cannot have any doubts in the aftermath of Samarra.
Shi'ite disgruntlement with Khalilzad reached a peak in late February, when he complained about sectarian abuses by al-Jaafari's Shi'ite government. His thinly disguised target was the Interior Ministry, which Sunnis say employs Shi'ite death squads. Shi'ites interpreted Khalilzad's comments as a threat to...