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In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland’s encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades, and tear-gas canisters – with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators.
All the demonstrators can do is hold up signs, bang drums, chant slogans, and show solidarity just by turning up.
He carried out these orders ruthlessly, his troops shooting down over 100 unarmed street demonstrators.
When, like the Tianamen Square demonstrators, it met with an uncompromising government counter-attack, it soon became obvious that, however strange and fantastic its followers might seem from the outside, Party leaders viewed the movement as a menace They labeled it a xiejiao zuzhi, literally a “heretical” or “depraved” organization, a term of denigration long-reserved for “unorthodox” religious or spiritual groups based on superstition.
And demonstrators have gone to great – sometimes destructive – lengths to be heard, blocking roads, occupying factories and government buildings, and sabotaging water and electricity infrastructure.
Mobs shouted at Tunisian women demonstrators to go back to the kitchen “where they belong.”
In the squares of both Tunisia and Egypt, demonstrators who had felt alienated and isolated under repressive regimes were overjoyed to discover that they were not alone.
Angry demonstrators burned synagogues in France and, of all places, Germany, with some even chanting “Jews to the gas!”
They cannot quite grasp how European demonstrators can denounce Israel’s wars as “genocide” – a term that has never been applied to the Syrian hecatomb, the obliteration of Grozny by Russia, the 500,000 casualties in Iraq since the United States-led invasion in 2003, or US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
With about half of Iran’s population under the age of 30, and youth unemployment at around 25%, it should come as no surprise that some recent demonstrators chanted, “Give Up on Syria!
Though some demonstrators clearly want to reenact the “feats” of their ancestors against their (elected) monarch, we are not in July 1789.
When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its protection for the Chinese diplomats.
Like Indonesia, it was living proof that Islam is, in fact, compatible with both democracy and modernity – an observation that was not lost on the demonstrators in, say, Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
One objective of the demonstrators was to voice their desire to select Hong Kong's future leaders through universal suffrage.
They saw demonstrators in East European capitals and Chinese crowds in Tiananmen Square chanting for freedom, and believed that those throngs wanted to be American.
Likewise, pious conservatives and liberal and leftist secular youth, who joined forces in Cairo and Tunis in 2010-2011 to challenge the dictators, have now turned on each other: witness the Egyptian security forces’ appalling massacres of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo recently, following a military coup carried out with liberals’ support.
The Gezi Park demonstrators who in June protested peacefully against the use of excessive police force by simply standing still also protested peacefully, years ago, against the ban on the headscarf then in effect in Turkey’s universities.
This followed deadly violence against unarmed demonstrators protesting last year’s deeply flawed national election, won, yet again, by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party, which has dominated political life for more than three decades.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, for example, was in large part an attempt to provide Putin’s regime with renewed legitimacy following a winter of discontent, during which demonstrators took to the streets to protest his return to the presidency.
The police shot at the crowd on several occasions, but proved too weak to intimidate the demonstrators.
“The press lies!” demonstrators shouted in Warsaw and burned Party-controlled newspapers.
That same spring, demonstrators in Paris burned cars in opposition to the bourgeois lifestyle.
In violation of a centuries-long tradition of university autonomy, the police marched onto campus, beat up students, and arrested a large number of demonstrators.
In November, several unions organized rallies where demonstrators cursed the ruling centre-right government and invoked the Ceausescu era as one relatively good and secure.
The demonstrators’ calls for peace should be heard and echoed.
It would have been preposterous to tell Ukrainian demonstrators facing government storm troopers to just grin and bear it without any external solidarity or support.
It is just as preposterous to tell Venezuelan demonstrators the same thing.
The goal is for Myanmar’s Government to release all detained students and demonstrators, engage with the opposition, move toward a more democratic society, and rejoin the international community.
Against this backdrop, demonstrators have also decried the government’s decision to spend billions of dollars on World Cup infrastructure, including stadiums, hotels, and airports.
In Bahrain, by contrast, the monarchy has used the foreign Sunni mercenaries that dominate its police force to fire on demonstrators, who are predominantly Shia.
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