Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Solidarity leader was one of tens of thousands of demonstrators who turned out in cities across Poland last week to mock official government ceremonies honoring the international workers' day. Riot squads drenched Solidarity supporters in Warsaw and Czestochowa with water cannons. There were other demonstrations in Szczecin, Lublin, Wroclaw and Poznan. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban brusquely dismissed the May Day protests as "pitiful" but announced that the police had detained 684 demonstrators for questioning...
Compared with the turnout for past demonstrations, the number of Solidarity supporters who were willing last week to face beatings, drenchings and possible arrest had significantly dwindled. But if Walesa and his followers could not hope to prevail against Polish riot squads, they did cause Jaruzelski considerable embarrassment on the eve of his trip to Moscow. Speaking to a May Day rally in Warsaw, the general sought to strike a cautious balance between repression and reform. Said Jaruzelski: "A storm has swept over our land. It cleaned some things and littered others as every storm does. We must extend...
...Warsaw riot squads had moved quickly to prevent major demonstrations from taking place in the capital and cordoned the Old Town, a traditional rallying point for Solidarity supporters. As churchgoers streamed out of St. John's Cathedral after a morning Mass in honor of workers, someone in the crowd flung a sheaf of leaflets into the air that urged Poles "to ruin the attempt to make this holiday a show of obedience." Only about 200 youths stood ready to battle the police, who chased them down cobblestoned streets with jets of water. When the protesters tried to regroup outside...
...word of Mitterrand's press conference spread through Lorraine last Wednesday, the mood turned ugly. At Longwy, site of violent steel riots in 1979 and the epicenter of last week's upheavals, some 200 young casseurs (delinquents) clashed with riot police. Soon the dingy town of 17,000 was a battleground. One young man had his hand blown off by a concussion grenade; another was hit in the face with a tear-gas canister and lost his lower lip. In the nearby town of Réhon, a gang of workers set fire to an elegant...
...Amritsar. Three people were killed, 51 injured. The Hindus quickly became an outraged mob, charging the police and accusing them of favoring the Sikhs. Unable to contain the crowd with their long bamboo poles, police opened fire with tear gas and finally, in desperation, with bullets. Before the riot was over, the crowd had burned and looted many Sikh shops and smashed to bits Sikh-owned scooters and bicycles...