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...past ten years, as its population has swelled to 70% more than capacity and the rate of violent acts nearly tripled. This year three inmates have been killed and 130 others stabbed in unmanageable violence that has locked the prison into what Criminologist Craig Haney calls "a slow-motion riot...
...that Botha's order affected only six districts, all relatively rural and quiet, of the 36 areas given emergency status. Then Botha took away with one hand what he had given with the other: he extended the emergency measures to eight more districts, including, for the first time, riot-racked Cape Town...
...March 24, Askar Akaev, the then-president of Kyrgyzstan, fled the country on a nighttime flight to Russia. Democratic protesters, revolting against rigged elections, had seized government headquarters in the capital Bishkek and overwhelmed the government’s military forces and riot police. Last Monday, Akaev formally announced his resignation, ending his 15-year autocratic rule and concluding the democratic revolution in the Central Asian republic...
...sending Donald Rumsfeld to read Iraq's new government the riot act over plans to purge former Baathists from its security services, the Bush administration clearly intended to sound a warning to the democratically elected government of Iraq. The Defense Secretary's message to Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari was simple: Don't touch the security forces, and the ministries that oversee them...
...least 30 governments since World War II, Prime Minister Wilfried Martens had skillfully held together a coalition government for more than 3½ years. The odds finally caught up with the popular Prime Minister last week in an unexpected crisis over the government's handling of the May soccer riot in Brussels that left 38 dead in a clash between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation...