Conflicts / Tags / Protests

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- At least 11 members of a Kenyan gang were killed Monday in a confrontation with police following protests in the capital city of Nairobi and other parts of the country, local media reported. The Mungiki gang set up roadblocks and burned cars to protest th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Kenya's police have fired into the air to disperse opposition supporters in cities across the country on the second day of protests against disputed polls. A BBC correspondent says two people have been shot in Nairobi's Kibera slum and there are clashe.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Kenya's main opposition party is resuming its calls for mass protests after last month's disputed elections. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has told police he will hold a mass rally in Nairobi's Uhuru park next Wednesday. The announcement follows th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- More than 100 monks have marched in central Burma, the first time they have returned to the streets since last month's bloody crackdown on protests. The monks chanted and prayed as they marched through Pakokku, the site of an incident last month that t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- The authorities in Burma are continuing to seek and detain those who took part in last month's anti-government protests, the government has announced. According to a statement in an official newspaper, almost 3,000 people have been detained since the g.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 9:51am mrmdc

BBC News -- Organisers say the majority of local people are opposed to US plans. They say Prime Minister Romano Prodi has ignored strong local objections. Mr Prodi is going ahead with a plan agreed by his pro-US predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi. Despite fears of.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 4:58pm mrmdc

Slate -- The American experience in Iraq, as many analysts have pointed out, looks a lot like the American experience in Vietnam. But one element seems to be missing: antiwar protests. There were enormous demonstrations around the world, including in New York and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Reports from Kenya say police have shot dead at least 12 people amid protests across the country. Members of the illegal Mungiki sect were protesting after the discovery of the beheaded body of the wife of the sect's leader at the weekend. Youths bl.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 14, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Fires have broken out in the Tibetan city of Lhasa amid reports of rioting, as rare street protests led by Buddhist monks appeared to gather pace. One eyewitness told the BBC how large groups of people were setting fire to cars and shops and destroying.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Black students on a university campus in central South Africa resumed their protests Tuesday against a racist video that showed white students tricking black workers into tasting stew laced with urine. Protesters barged into classes at the University of t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has called off Thursday's mass protests after meeting ex-UN head Kofi Annan. Mr Annan is also meeting President Mwai Kibaki in a bid to salvage suspended talks on Tuesday after he said the negotiations had become.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 28, 2007 @ 11:35am neoform

BBC News -- Police in the West Bank have clashed with mourners at a funeral for a man killed during protests against the Middle East talks in the United States. Witnesses said Palestinian police shot into the air to disperse hundreds of mourners at the funeral in.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 14, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Georgia will lift a state of emergency on Friday, nine days after it was imposed amid opposition protests, the country's speaker has said. "Georgian life will return to normal on 16 November," Nino Burjanadze said. President Mikhail Saakashvili init.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- Across much of Pakistan on Monday, the government was firmly in command -- squelching protests, blacking out television stations and picking up dozens more political prisoners to add to the thousands already in jail. But in vast stretches of the countr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Hundreds of people took part in the demonstration, and many remain outside parliament, the sources said. There have been no arrests so far. Video showed Pakistani forces in uniform with shields and sticks trying to move a barricade surrounding the prot.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Also Wednesday, the NLD said the military government had freed seven of its members who were held for more than a month following the crackdown on the protests. The releases Tuesday night came ahead of a visit by U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari to s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Scores of monks are trying to leave Burma's main city, Rangoon, following the military's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, reports say. Witnesses said many monks were at the railway station, while bus drivers were said to be refusing to tak.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

BBC News -- Burmese soldiers and police are baton-charging groups of protesters who are trying to gather in Rangoon. Security forces have sealed off five monasteries that were focal points of previous mass marches and are trying to prevent further protests. Off.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Myanmar's state-run media has said that at least nine people were killed during protests on the streets of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday. Al Jazeera exclusive from inside Myanmar However, activists on the ground in Myanmar, formerly know.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The diplomat said the junta had deployed more security forces around Suu Kyi's house and on the road leading to it, and that more than 100 soldiers were now inside the compound. Dramatic images of the recent protests, many transmitted by dissidents usi.. Read More