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...Inaction comes at a steep price. The environment is one of the leading causes of China's rising social unrest. Last year the government recorded 74,000 protests. This year, international and domestic media have kept busy reporting on numerous environmental protests, several of which have spiraled out of control, resulting in beatings, arrests, even deaths. In wealthy Zhejiang Province, for example, thousands of people mobilized throughout the spring and summer to protest chemical, pharmaceutical and battery factories that were polluting their land and water. In one case in April, up to 30,000 people living in and around...
...also noticed that they are not very alarmed; the violence seems pretty removed from Paris itself.” The violence was sparked in a Parisian suburb, where two youths of North African descent were electrocuted as they hid from police in an electric power station. The unrest then spread to become the worst in France in 40 years, as rioters set 9,000 cars ablaze and 3,000 people were detained by authorities. Order was only restored in the last few days. On Nov. 7, in the midst of the violence, the U.S. State Department cautioned Americans traveling...
...reside in its 150 hectare "northern section" of projects, notes Spitz; internal tensions and feelings of injustice there have periodically boiled over since a first wave of violence in 1999. The most recent outbreak came Nov. 5-7, when the third straight day of rioting around Paris inspired similar unrest in the Blois projects - resulting in pitched battles with police, and around 20 cars torched...
...France faces national riots that represent the country’s most severe civil unrest in decades, Harvard professors say the French government must address the joblessness and discrimination that afflicts the country’s minority population...
...outburst of violence was the French government's failure to stop it. In an embarrassing admission of its loss of control, the government was forced to suspend some train service from Paris to Charles de Gaulle Airport after two trains were targeted by a mob of youths. As the unrest mounted last week, the political left and the rioters themselves laid blame on the zero-tolerance policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious crime fighter who is vying to succeed President Jacques Chirac...