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...million workers were on strike, and most of the rest were idled by a massive transportation shutdown. The country's students barricaded themselves in their universities. Farmers defiantly parked their tractors across the nation's highways. Protesters surged through Paris streets by the thousands each night, battling police and riot troopers. With startling suddenness, the serenity of Gaullist France had been swept away in what the French are already calling 'the Days...
...display of breathtaking racism, “Australian” youths paraded through the streets and across the beach attacking gangs of Middle-Eastern men who had also come to partake in the violence. In the most saddening display of the riot, a significant portion of “Australian” youths arrived uniformed in t-shirts with racist slogans while others brandished Australian flags. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Middle Eastern gangs were attacked whilst the assailants sung the National Anthem, entitled “Advance Australia Fair,” and “Waltzing Matilda...
...imagine the U.S. Director of Homeland Security or any Canadian Cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did [Nov. 21]? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events, no matter how offensive their comments might be. Attitude is only...
...funeral. Last Tuesday afternoon, Lin joined what locals estimate was a 1,000-strong protest in southern China's Dongzhou village, where three people had been detained while demanding compensation for land that residents say had been seized by local officials to build a power plant. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas?not that unusual in a country where standoffs over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. In 2004, China was rocked by 74,000 "mass incidents," according to Beijing...
...What happened next in Dongzhou, though, was far from ordinary. Just after 7 p.m., say two locals reached by TIME by phone, riot police opened fire on the villagers, who responded by throwing homemade explosives. By the time the smoke had cleared, Lin and at least five others were dead, according to the two eyewitnesses. "We never imagined that they would shoot people," says a Dongzhou housewife surnamed Huang, whose father was injured in the fight. On Saturday, a government report said three villagers had died, adding that the police were forced to shoot in self-defense. But three locals...