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...Sikh guru. Enraged Sikhs from other sects attacked properties belonging to the Dera Sacha Sauda, whose leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh had committed the perceived religious insult. The clashes have killed two people and injured at least 30, and the national government has sent in troops to stop further unrest. "The sect chief has committed a grave offense by trying to imitate Guru Gobind Singh," said Sikh writer Kharak Singh. "He must issue an unconditional apology. A stubborn attitude will precipitate matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Unrest in India | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...recurring religious unrest in India? Moderate Muslim activist J.S. Bandukwala says that "to a great extent" India has resolved the question of religious identity which had split the country for decades. "But in such a huge population it's so easy for someone to plant a bomb and cause chaos," he says. "I don't think there's anything police can do to stop this sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Unrest in India | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Last weekend, over 40 people were killed in Karachi in an orgy of murder, arson and looting. This was not unrest as usual in Pakistan. The carnage, which occurred when supporters of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry clashed with members of a political party allied to the President, General Pervez Musharraf, has placed new pressure on Pakistan's leader to find a way out of the vicious cycle of violence in which the nation finds itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Moment of Truth | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Need inspiration? Look no further than 1969. When students took over University Hall that year to protest the Vietnam War, they were motivated by the May ’68 unrest in France, where university students took over Parisian streets. Though clubbed by the police, Harvard’s revolutionaries held on; professors aided them with food; fellow undergraduates boycotted classes in support. Eventually, the single cry of a united campus, brought together under a political message...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: We The Undergraduates | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but who shared an inability to address the profound identity crisis that France has been undergoing. By now, French voters seem to recognize that without a major course correction, the country has little to look forward to other than growing social unrest and long-term economic decline...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Clay A. Dumas | Title: Oui Are For Sarko | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

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