What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

(c) Mob justice

This scene Mob Justice has gradually become a normal way of life in Nigeria.

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

Mobs shouted at Tunisian women demonstrators to go back to the kitchen where they belong.

The Internet can foster more demagoguery than sober analysis.

(p) Take effective measures, including judicial measures, to prevent mob justice

In the absence of the rule of law, the rule of man, mob rule or the law of the jungle will prevail.

Yellow is the color of Thai royalty, and the Palace was believed to be sympathetic to the mobs.

It is also likely that some radical hot heads wanted to overthrow the government by mob action.

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.

Furthermore, economists have been reluctant to share their intellectual doubts with the public, lest they empower the barbarians.

A new worrying trend is the killing of detainees during attempts to escape from prison, and the phenomenon of mob justice.

If passed into law it would introduce jail sentences and fines for perpetrators of mob justice and the communities where the violence takes place.

It also carried out sensitization campaigns on mob justice, international human rights standards, sexual violence, IDPs and election related issues.

Such people might be those belonging to the British lynch mob which last year attacked a pediatrician in mistake for a pedophile.

The tragic deaths of the students now known as the Aluu4 have caused outrage and plenty of online discussion about the serious problem of mob justice in Nigeria.

Now we know that there are no dependable statistics or numbers regarding Mob Justice occurrences in Nigeria, but what we do know is that has been happening for years.

As for the mention in paragraph 20 of the killing of detainees during attempts to escape from prison and the exercise of mob justice, the former was a universal phenomenon, while as for the latter, it was only to be expected in a country without a properly functioning judicial system and was, in any case, declining.

During a lecture at Uppsala University last summer, a mob attacked Vilks, a professor of art history, while crying Allahu akbar.

And for years we have complained, we have cried and we have watched, but nothing has changed as Mob Justice still occurs with its perpetrators largely going unpunished.

But also exacerbating the matter is the absence and lack of recognition of Mob Justice (and its many variations) as a crime in our Federal Laws, most particularly our CRIMINAL CODE ACT, CAP C38 LFN 2004.

Even the tiny state of Qatar has the rabble rouser Al Jazeera television channel, which is watched by more viewers in Saudi Arabia than in any other Arab country.

He even went to the border town of Amritsar and pleaded with Hindu and Sikh mobs to stop victimizing Muslim refugees fleeing to the new Islamic state of Pakistan.

The independent expert was informed of 96 cases of violation of the right to life as a result of mob justice most of the cases 72 occurred in Muyinga, Cankuzo and Karuzi provinces.

In Karuzi province, where the problem was especially acute, HRD held a sensitization session on mob justice attended by some 500 residents, including a traditional healer.

The first thing I began to notice how many big concepts were emerging from the wisdom of crowds to smart mobs around how ridiculously easy it is to form groups for a purpose.

Mobs wearing red shirts to symbolize their loyalty to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are now camped out in two major commercial areas, paralyzing a large part of the local economy.

In an email interview, Kathleen Ndongmo, a Cameroonian citizen based in Lagos, Nigeria who has been active in the campaign, describes how they hope to inspire more action against mob justice

When he returned to Ecuador in 1912 and attempted a return to power, he was arrested on January 28, 1912 thrown in prison and assassinated by a mob that had stormed the prison.

Just a few weeks later, a mob attacked Israel s embassy in Cairo, forcing the evacuation of Israeli diplomats and creating a major row with Egypt s fragile interim government.

In total, more than 550 violations of the right to life, including as a result of mob justice , were reported by ONUB human rights observers during the period under review.

Last June, tensions erupted when a Rakhine mob, reacting to the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Rohingya men, killed ten Muslims who had no connection to the incident.

Angry Muslim and Christian mobs burned churches and mosques, killing dozens of people in a series of attacks and reprisals that have deepened the sectional divide between the Muslim north and the Christian south.

Anti Muslim riots in Mandalay (1997) On 16 March 1997 beginning at about 3 30 p.m., following reports of an attempted rape by Muslim men, a mob of about 1,000 1,500 Buddhist monks and others gathered in Mandalay.

In February 1915, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam established a dictatorship, but in July, facing a new revolt, he massacred 167 political prisoners, all of whom were from elite families, and was lynched by a mob in Port au Prince.

Similarly, few regimes seemed more stable than that of the Shah of Iran, another long term ruler, who, having bankrupted his country, was forced to flee the fury of a mob in 1979.

It is this narrow, black and white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.

On October 5, 2012, four students of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria were beaten and burnt to death by a lynch mob, for allegedly stealing a Blackberry phone and a laptop.

And I, like many others, will not try to hide my satisfaction at seeing the smug scoundrels of the FN break down and resume speaking in their historic register, with their authentic voice, which is one of hatred and mob rage. This, truly, was a victory for the republic a triumph of popular resistance.