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.

Post election riots in Sidi Bouzid. Photo by SBZone

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

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

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

STOCKHOLM With Swedish cities roiled for weeks now by rioting by unemployed immigrants, many observers see a failure of the country s economic model.

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

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

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.

He has even appeared at crime scenes not urban riots, but private crimes of passion, where no reason of state could possibly warrant the presence of the President of the Republic.

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.

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

He covered major events of the 1960s and 1970s such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, urban riots, and government scandals.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are reports of violence in cities across Pakistan.

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

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

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

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.

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

The riots began after a provocative gunned attack on several cafés at the same time, and spread over other places in Istanbul and also in Ankara in the next days.

WARSAW Had the August 1991 putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev not failed, the riots and death recently seen in Xinjiang could have been taking place in Russia.

Widespread riots in Greece drew attention to the plight of the Southern Tier countries Spain, Italy and Greece and of Ireland.

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.

Although the internally displaced persons and their leaders have not resorted to violence since the riots of July, the registration process remains in a deadlock.

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.

But memories of atrocity never seem to fade, as the government fanned anti Japanese riots now taking place in China remind us.

The urban disturbances in France have been called the most severe since the riots by students and workers in 1968.