Post election riots in Sidi Bouzid. Photo by SBZone

)On October 4, 1779, the Fort Wilson Riot began.

In southern Sudan, earlier proposals for intercommunal reconciliation, following the August riots in Juba, met with some resistance.

So tensions spill over into the streets and take the form of riots and protests.

Riots and paralyzing strikes have crippled Thailand, France, and Greece.

In 1736 an increase in the tax on gin inspired riots in London.

According to Amnesty International hundreds of people, mostly Kurds, were arrested after the riots.

They protest, they petition, and they participate in local riots when all other means are exhausted.

Fortunately, organized Muslim leaders so far have not aggravated the rioting.

The plan was to march against Rome, while a riot was to break out inside the city.

Days later, riots erupted in cities across Sudan, including the capital, Khartoum.

Riots and protests in some developing countries are just the worst manifestation of this.

Those riots spread to other towns in central Myanmar and left more than 40 people dead.

On March 15, the riots spread to a neighborhood in the Ümraniye district of Istanbul, on the Anatolian part.

Meanwhile, Lobna Darwish objects to the use of words like riots and clashes to describe the tragedy.

His mother said he had been watching the rioting on television and asked if he could join in.

During the Arab riots of 1920, Hadassah nurses cared for the wounded on both sides.

Images of rioting, fascist minded thugs have dominated TV broadcasts.

I also regret and deplore the loss of life that occurred during the riots in the ensuing days.

Sectarianism or nepotism

It provoked a virtual riot in the parliament, complete with fistfights, hurling of eggs, and smoke bombs.

The border was closed on the day of the incident because of the rioting, which is why Jamal was not at work.

His presidency was marked by Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti Sikh riots.

Communal elections were successfully concluded in June, despite some violence at polling stations in two western provinces.

Indeed, there is no specific religious or ethnic character to these riots, in so far as youth from various ethnic backgrounds have taken part.

The rioting may not be organized no clear leaders or political demands have emerged.

But the Bush administration failed to control rioting, disbanded the Iraqi army, and allowed the security situation to deteriorate.

But, as the occasional riots in French immigrant areas show, violence is not confined to Muslims.

Abhisit s pledges of reform and reconciliation in the wake of April s riots have made little headway. The PAD wants to maintain the 2007 charter.

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited the city and the riot affected areas on 30 May along with Chief Minister Vir Bahadur Singh .

Minority youth are, to be sure, over represented among those involved.

The recent violence in Khartoum and Juba undoubtedly strained intercommunal relations in those two cities.

But, in view of the diversity of the young people convicted so far, it would be a mistake to say that these riots are the result of Muslim radicalization.

Tragic Week () was a series of riots and massacres that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the week of January 7, 1919.

The preferred response would be from the police special units would be brought in to deal with civil disturbances, likewise following strict rules of engagement.

Since the overthrow of the Ba'ath regime in 2003, Iraq's Christian community has dwindled from 1.5 million to around 500,000 due to increased sectarianism.

Some go so far as to argue that the recent rise of the lower castes in northern Indian politics and the implementation of reservations by the central government amount to a silent revolution, and that the politics of caste is secular and a bulwark against religious sectarianism.

India s New Caste Politics

Moreover, an Iranian diplomat in Oslo, Mohammed Reza Heydari, resigned in protest against the regime s behavior after the December riots.

And ten years ago, during the financial crisis, violent anti Chinese riots erupted again, causing many Chinese to flee the country.

Thus, the riots that France is now seeing emerge from French policies, not from instigations by Islamists.

In the 14th century there was increasing pressure, especially against the Jews, that culminated in the riots of 1391 in Seville and other cities in which many Jews were massacred.

He instigated the riot.

A Bolshevik anticommunism, similar in its dogmatism to communism itself, has from time to time run riot in parts of Eastern Europe.

The second would lead to even more riots in the streets of Greece, with unforeseeable political consequences.