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He was also a witness in the “Giza Officers Trial,” in which 17 policemen were accused of killing and injuring
protesters
in January 2011.
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College were on buses heading to Mexico City to join
protesters
on the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre (in which up to 300 students were killed ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games).
During that wave of revolutions,
protesters
seeking freedom thought in terms of Europe and their own countries’ aspirations simultaneously.
In Hamburg, violent clashes with
protesters
left nearly 200 police injured and German insurance companies with a €12 million ($14.2 million) bill.
“Every effort should be made to prevent changes in Eastern Europe from influencing China’s internal development,” party officials concluded in March 1989, and within months they violently crushed democratic
protesters.
Officials are “concerned” about “recent disproportionate violence against protesters” but “welcome the Government’s stated commitment to undertake electoral reforms.”
Using the People’s Liberation Army to murder civilian protesters, not only in Beijing, but all over China in June 1989, further undermined the one-party system’s legitimacy.
Crucially, the
protesters
did not demand free elections.
Anti-capitalist radicalism pushed many Western
protesters
toward the extreme left, rejection of liberal democracy, and, in some cases, terrorism.
Protesters
in Tunis and Cairo were not demonstrating about lack of economic opportunity or poor social services.
Citing company policy, Wendy’s managers refused even to accept a letter from the
protesters
about signing on to the FFP and gave them the telephone number of Wendy’s corporate spokesperson.
One Hundred Days of SolitudeSANTIAGO – When violence flared up in Ukraine and
protesters
began dying at the hands of government agents, the European Union threatened sanctions against Ukrainian officials responsible for “violence and excessive force.”
But when violence flared up – virtually simultaneously – in Venezuela and
protesters
began dying at the hands of government agents, the Organization of American States raised its voice to announce that...it would not raise its voice.
Tribal leaders have joined the
protesters.
His desperation mounting, Saleh has ordered deadly attacks on protesters, evidently believing that his considerable skill at political manipulation would see him through.
But, when he declared a state of emergency on March 23, the number of
protesters
in the streets doubled.
Perhaps more remarkably, in a country containing more than 12 million guns, the
protesters
have not fired a shot.
China admitted to no deaths among the Tibetan protesters, claiming that its security forces had exercised restraint and had not even fired a single shot.
One of the key incidents in turning world opinion against South Africa’s apartheid regime was the 1961 Sharpeville massacre, in which police fired on a crowd of black protesters, killing 69 and wounding many more.
In 2003, his work was proscribed after he signed a petition appealing to the government to exonerate the student
protesters
whose democratic movement ended with the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
To the west, in Darfur,
protesters
burned government buildings in the provincial capital of Nyala while the siege in Nairobi played out.
Those demands were mostly uncontroversial for Egypt’s revolutionaries, including Islamists: the release of political prisoners; a halt to military tribunals for civilians; prosecution of the murderers of
protesters
(many of whom are senior police officers); a purge of corrupt Mubarak allies from the police force; and a public trial for Mubarak and his regime’s top henchmen.
In response to calls by some overseas Chinese for people to gather on Sundays at specific sites in Shanghai and Beijing to help launch a molihua (jasmine) revolution, China has revealed a new strategy: preemptively flood the protest-designated squares with police to leave no room for
protesters.
As Secretary of State, Clinton repeatedly took Putin to task for his clampdown on Russian
protesters
and independent Russian media, and rebuked him especially harshly for Russia’s meddling in Ukraine.
Most recently, French President Emmanuel Macron did himself no favors by backing down to the “Yellow Vest”
protesters
and offering compromises more likely to fuel additional demonstrations and exacerbate his country’s budget predicament.
When asked why they had taken to the streets, the
protesters
said they were defending their Catholic identity.
More than 100,000
protesters
gathered in Budapest, furious at the political symbolism of the tax and its very real economic impact.
As the
protesters
in Budapest pointed out, the proposed tax is wrong for Hungary.
In the eastern German city of Chemnitz, violent clashes broke out recently between right-wing
protesters
and police and counter-demonstrators, following the killing of a German by two young men from Iraq and Syria.
Security, medical, and other committees were rapidly established, just as similar rudimentary institutions of order were created in Egypt by rebellious
protesters
a few weeks ago.
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