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Now demonstrators are massing in Washington against the IMF and World Bank.
A brief look at the demonstrators' website a16.org gives a full taste of the menu of gripes on offer, including even an anarchists' domain.
But it is the IMF and World Bank who are the focus of the demonstrators rage.
The demonstrators indulge in an idyllic world of windmills throughout the emerging world where happy farmers and their donkeys bond with an ever-renewing nature.
The demonstrators want to free the poorest nations from unbearable and crushing debts.
Of course, conditionality is just what the demonstrators have the biggest problems with.
The demonstrators wonder why the IMF does not hold town meetings; why the World Bank does not reach out to all the world's NGOs and at least listenWhy all this rage in a booming America?
Of course, the West did the right thing by supporting the good guys, the street demonstrators.
In the ensuing gun battle, 14 members of the security forces and eight demonstrators were killed, and 200 people were wounded.
Although no democrat himself, his sympathies were with the student demonstrators.
All the demonstrators had asked for was free speech, dialogue with the government, independent unions, and an end to official corruption.
Indeed, since the protests began, the regime’s security forces have killed 85 demonstrators and wounded over 1,000 more, including by throwing tear-gas canisters into crowds and launching pellets at people’s chests, at close range.
The Assad regime reacted with a shifting mix of violent repression (shooting at demonstrators) and offers of reform.
The image of joyful crowds and Spanish flags draped from cars and windows has given way to that of throngs of demonstrators holding banners protesting the government’s latest austerity measures.
The student demonstrators in the streets of Paris recently don’t want to become like Chinese and Indians; they reject the logic of globalization and refuse to surrender hard-won social guarantees.
They all exhibit the same, unchanging pattern: the government, whether in Beijing or the localities, tolerates the low-decibel, smaller-scale, relatively non-disruptive marches and sit-ins by demonstrators bearing petitions and posters, especially if they appear to be spontaneous, un-organized, localized and leaderless.
Saudi troops marched into Bahrain under the banner of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and the Saudi rulers issued clear instructions to adopt an iron-fisted policy with the demonstrators, again arguing that Iran’s nefarious hand was at play in subverting the country.
The Remaking of the Middle EastJERUSALEM – The Middle East’s descent into extreme violence – with mass killings of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in Cairo followed closely by Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war – has dashed the hopes raised by the Arab Spring in 2011.
As the embassy was opened, Palestinian residents of Gaza escalated their protests demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to what is now Israel, prompting Israeli soldiers to kill at least 62 demonstrators and wound more than 1,500 others at the Gaza boundary fence.
The longer the standoff between Hong Kong’s Chief Executive and the demonstrators continues, the more likely it is that individual citizens – and Hong Kong itself – will be hurt.
Indeed, Bahraini security forces have been ruthless in their attacks against demonstrators, killing six.
But, as the anti-establishment, pro-Thaksin “red shirts” staged huge protests of their own against the army’s suppression of their fellow demonstrators in April-May of last year, the men in uniform became agitated.
A few thousand cars do burn, but three years later, the police – who wanted to undermine the support that the public gave, almost unanimously, to the movement – will own up to being responsible for far more of them than the demonstrators.
Similarly, miners bussed by their managers to Kiev were soon being convinced of the ‘Orange’ cause by the demonstrators and were quickly sent back East by their minders.
The queen is rumored to have said she would pay the medical expenses of any injured demonstrators.
But, despite the large protests in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities, the authorities rejected demonstrators’ demands to nullify the election results.
The demonstrators have been clamoring for justice for the victims of the genocidal massacres of 1971 that led to the former East Pakistan’s secession from Pakistan.
Many of the several thousand demonstrators at Shahbag are too young to have had personal experience of the killings that marked the Pakistani Army’s brutal, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to suppress the fledgling independence movement.
The idealism of Bangladesh’s young demonstrators, however, points to a new development.
Cohn’s sin was to let it be known publicly that he almost resigned following the violence last month in Charlottesville, Va., when Trump equated white supremacist and neo-Nazi demonstrators, many of them armed, with those who opposed them.
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