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The Bangladeshi government’s sympathies are closer to the Shahbag
protesters
than to the Hifazat counter-demonstrators.
The then Communist government cracked down on protesters, leaving at least one person dead, while numerous allegations of widespread torture further traumatized and divided Moldovan society.
Indeed, Shafiq has been linked to multiple cases of corruption and repression, including the “battle of the camels” on February 2, 2011, when Mubarak’s henchmen attacked Tahrir Square, killing and wounding
protesters.
The protesters, complaining that the $11 billion spent on new stadiums and other World Cup-related infrastructure would be better invested in improving Brazil’s poor public services, were met with official violence.
In Brasilia, 45,000
protesters
simply walked into the capital’s legislative district and stood quietly.
Just last week, following allegations of massive fraud during the country’s recent presidential election, thousands of
protesters
marched on the presidential palace.
Not bad for a summit that some feared would not happen at all: an earlier meeting planned for April in Bangkok had been disrupted by
protesters
– “red shirts” who support ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
But, this time, the
protesters
will be even angrier, and the stakes will be much higher, because the monarchy’s role in Thailand’s electoral democracy will be called into question.
Around the world, peaceful
protesters
are being demonized for being disruptive.
Protesters
ideally should dedicate themselves to disciplined, nonviolent disruption in this spirit – especially disruption of traffic.
That is one reason why
protesters
should raise their own money and hire their own lawyers.
In every country,
protesters
should field an army of attorneys.
Protesters
should also make their own media, rather than relying on mainstream outlets to cover them.
Protesters
in democracies should create email lists locally, combine the lists nationally, and start registering voters.
And they should support those – as in Albany, New York, for instance, where police and the local prosecutor refused to crack down on
protesters
– who respect the rights to free speech and assembly.
Many
protesters
insist in remaining leaderless, which is a mistake.
Protesters
should elect representatives for a finite “term,” just like in any democracy, and train them to talk to the press and to negotiate with politicians.
Protesters
should clean up after themselves.
None of that cannot happen in an atmosphere of political and police violence against peaceful democratic
protesters.
The headline once again: “President of Tunisia Flees, Capitulating to Protesters.”
Who were the
protesters?
Some local estimates put the number of
protesters
on January 14 at between 50,000-60,000.
The
protesters
are holding Tunisian flags or signs bearing various symbols and slogans rejecting Ben Ali and the authoritarianism he represented in his late years.
The
protesters
who ended Ben Ali’s regime are the educated sons and daughters of the large, secular middle class that was built over decades by Habib Bourguiba.
In both countries, women
protesters
were nothing like the Western stereotype: they were front and center, in news clips and on Facebook forums, and even in the leadership.
Many commentators credited the great numbers of women and children with the remarkable overall peacefulness of the
protesters
in the face of grave provocations.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Obama’s recent executive order imposing sanctions on seven mid-level Venezuelan law-enforcement and military officials, who are accused of violating protesters’ rights during last year’s anti-government demonstrations.
The
protesters
probably think that they are acting in the spirit of the 1789 French Revolution, a spirit that the French periodically revive in their country’s politics.
At first, the Israeli police used force against the protesters, even though such demonstrations are perfectly legal in Israel.
This effort is so systematic, and backed so vigorously by the Israeli government, that there seems to be little prospect of a few hundred protesters, however distinguished, managing to stop it.
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