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After years of global protests about free trade, the world's nations chose trade over protectionism.
On April 1, they began holding almost daily protests demanding another general election, despite the mortal danger of public opposition.
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 Ashura riots of last December and the violent suppression of protests during the recent anniversary to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution were some of the fiercest to date.
Renewed protests over China’s mining investments in Myanmar this week confirmed this trend, one that China’s leaders seem either to dismiss as trivial, or to regard as somehow unrelated to their bullying.
Indeed, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces widespread public antipathy in Ukraine, China’s leaders appear to believe that popular protests against them can only be the product of an American plot.
This triggered vehement protests – and strong retaliation – from America’s trading partners.
Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution Will SucceedNEWPORT BEACH – A year ago, Egyptians of all ages and religions took to the streets and, in just 18 days of relatively peaceful protests, removed a regime that had ruled over them with an iron fist for 30 years.
Yet the plans have fueled the most persistent anti-American protests on Okinawa in decades, owing to safety concerns.
But this will only make mass protests inevitable, ultimately jeopardizing the democratic transition in Georgia that Saakashvili claims to represent.
Despite loud protests from Canada and the UK, the US Department of Commerce now seems set to impose an extremely high import tariff of about 300%.
But there is more behind the spontaneous protests that have choked the great central vistas of Delhi (to such an extent that the government was forced to change the venue for meetings with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin).
When protests erupted, the government, in a fit of blind idiocy, set the police upon peaceful protesters, men and women, with long batons, water cannon, and tear gas.
Most notably, the anger over corruption and nepotism that fueled the Tiananmen protests has never gone away.
The EU has imposed targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe, including a visa ban on senior officials, and there were protests when Mugabe appeared in Paris in February 2003 for the last France-Africa summit on European territory.
Practically every French administration in recent memory has tried to rewrite the country’s gargantuan labor code, typically failing in the face of trade union protests.
Not only are government leaders under fire; when opposition leaders joined the street protests two weeks ago, they were booed.
In February 2011, peaceful protests were staged in Syria’s major cities, amid the region-wide phenomenon dubbed the “Arab Spring.”
In fact, the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt were directly inspired by Iran’s Green movement, which emerged during the massive post-election protests in 2009, before succumbing to a brutal government crackdown.
This was a key factor behind the Arab Spring revolts; and, as protests in Chile, Brazil, Israel, Turkey, and India have shown, social tensions stemming from inequality are mounting around the globe.
The book fair, held annually to commemorate the 1952 protests that culminated in the Pakistani military opening fire on students at the university, is a typically Bengali response to violence.
In April, the protests turned violent, leaving one man dead and dozens injured.
In the last ten years, CONAIE has spearheaded protests to stop privatization, the extraction of natural resources, and export-oriented agricultural policies.
The opposition, sensing that its moment had arrived, launched a wave of street protests.
Worker Protests In China: Plentiful But PreemptedThe last annualized figure for labor protests that Beijing was willing to announce publicly was 100,000 for the year 1999.
Indeed, the episodes that make it into the media beyond the Mainland are usually such protests.
Perhaps the government believed that mass protests – with placards denouncing the EU as a fig leaf for revived German domination of Europe – would strengthen its hand.
The potential for mass protests and civil unrest is now hampering the government’s determination to create change.
Only Poles Can Save Polish DemocracyWARSAW – Massive protests in Warsaw have made headlines around the world in recent weeks.
The rulers argued that public protests throughout the region were being orchestrated by Shia Iran, and were anti-Sunni and sectarian.
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