Word: refugee
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Less than 24 hours after Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled in favor of President General Pervez Musharraf's eligibility to run for a second term in office, government forces laid siege to the Supreme Court grounds, where several hundred lawyers had taken refuge after a vicious attack on a peaceful...
It seemed as if the police were ready to take up the challenge. Someone threw a stone - though it's not clear who - and the police returned the volley with rocks of their own. Some witnesses say they saw police passing around bags of rocks, others say they simply picked...
Ambulances screamed through the gates of the Supreme Court to collect the wounded. Over the course of the day some 45 protesters were rushed to hospitals throughout the capital, the overwhelmed staff of the Supreme Court first aid clinic attended to the rest. The protesters, refreshed by dousings of water...
Despite the clash at Shwedagon, the monks continued on, their fervor broadcast over loudspeakers: "Let us overthrow the government." By early afternoon, the demonstrators had marched the two miles to the Sule Pagoda, another holy site. Again, the path to the pagoda itself was blocked by hundreds of security forces...
Slattery and his family evacuated to Oxford, Miss. and watched the events unfold from the TV in their hotel. After a stop in Tennessee, the Slattery family took refuge in Houston, and Tommy and his father snuck back to New Orleans to salvage what they could from their homeā?...