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Nor are the anti-government
protesters
likely to find robust support from the United States, always deeply involved in Egyptian affairs, regardless of how often President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasize America’s commitment to freedom and democracy.
Halappanavar’s death resulted from the fanatical, atavistic behavior of a Western theocracy, while Indian
protesters
and lawmakers have upheld the scientific, rationalist ethos of the Enlightenment.
But it is the outcry in India, where
protesters
are demanding that abortion in Ireland be treated as a private medical decision between a woman and her health-care providers, that may point the way ahead – to a global dialogue about the universal right of women to reproductive health and freedom.
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron routinely impugns human-rights laws; the Metropolitan Police have sought authority to use baton rounds – foot-long projectiles that have caused roughly a dozen deaths, including that of children, in Northern Ireland – on peaceful protesters; and a police report on the threat of terrorism, distributed to “trusted partners” among London businesses,included updates about Occupy protests and referred to “suspected activists.”
Not only are laws criminalizing previously legal dissent, organizing, and reporting being replicated in advanced democracies; so are violent tactics against protesters, backed by the increasing push in countries with long traditions of civil policing to militarize law enforcement.
Erik Prince, the head of the most infamous outfit, Academi (formerly Xe Services, formerly Blackwater), has relocated to the UAE, while Pakistani mercenaries have been recruited in large numbers to Bahrain, where
protesters
have been met with increasingly violent repression.
It is a conflict that can be expected to heighten dramatically in 2012, as protesters’ agendas – from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Moscow – gain further coherence.
Mr Kuchma publicly denounced the crowds of
protesters
against him as “a herd under various flags”.
The most dramatic of these episodes accompanied the coup in July 2013, when Egyptian police and army opened fire on crowds protesting Morsi’s ouster in Cairo’s Rab’a Square, killing more than 1,000
protesters
in less than ten hours.
Instead, Yanukovych opted for a short-term strategy narrowly focused on his own political survival – a strategy that the
protesters
increasingly came to view as a game of deceit and betrayal.
If the alternative to raising the price is shortages or rationing, angry
protesters
may mobilize anyway.
But the failure to build an inclusive government in Iraq, together with the violent repression of
protesters
in Syria, offered battle-hardened jihadist leaders an opening to initiate the fourth wave.
It is difficult to disagree with the
protesters.
When India began the Narmada Dam project, aiming to bring irrigation, drinking water, and power to millions, it spent 34 years (so far) fighting environmental groups, human rights activists, and advocates for the displaced all the way to the Supreme Court, while still being thwarted in the streets by
protesters.
Libya was rescued mostly by its European neighbors, and, throughout the Gulf and in Syria, America has practically abandoned the democratic
protesters
to their fate.
Eurobarometer survey data on trust in government and political parties support the argument that frustration with politics-as-usual is motivating
protesters
and resonating more widely.
And Macron, far from walking on water, has been trying not to drown in a sea of yellow-vested
protesters.
Unable to mount a political alternative, however, the protesters’ rejection of the Islamist government served only to put the army back in charge.
After the opposition leader Alexei Navalny made him the subject of recent YouTube videos, tens of thousands of
protesters
took to the streets in cities across the country.
Unlike Cold War-era East Germans, Czechs, and Poles,
protesters
in today’s Middle East are not unified by opposition to foreign control.
Uzbekistan, in particular, has proven its willingness to brutalize
protesters.
This was followed by political turmoil in neighboring Ukraine, where
protesters
tried, and once again failed, to topple their anti-democratic leaders.
President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife declared that she would enter the dreaded Sambisa Forest herself, while accusing
protesters
from the Chibok community of being affiliated with Boko Haram.
Ten days later,
protesters
overran the base of Ansar al-Sharia, the Islamist militia suspected of masterminding the attack, as part of a sweep of raids on militia compounds throughout the city.
Only a few hours after the demonstrations began, government authorities sent a mass text message that urged the
protesters
to return to their homes, adding that “the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade, the February 17 Brigade, and the Libya Shield Force are legal, and are subject to the authority of the [military] general staff.”
An amnesty for detained
protesters
was offered, and
protesters
agreed to withdraw from government buildings.
Officials’ excessive use of force, and the government’s reliance on semi-criminal thugs (known as titushki) to attack protesters, must be thoroughly investigated.
But Yanukovych has refused to take the next step, or to commit to constitutional reforms, which largely explains the protesters’ growing frustration – and their determination to press ahead in the face of brutal repression.
As it is, the army’s coup was indefensible, and its slaughter of mostly unarmed
protesters
ranks in infamy with the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, and those of Libya’s former leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Syria’s Hafez and Bashar al-Assad.
Before Russia's annexation of Crimea, it argued that the United States had hired snipers to fire at pro-Western
protesters
in Kyiv in order to blame Russia for their deaths.
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