The regime tightens control of dissent
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
In the early hours of Nov. 30, some 1,400 members of the regime’s security forces moved upon a much smaller group of protesters who had been camped in the grounds of a major provincial city’s administrative center.
Despite repeated claims regarding the peaceful nature of their protest, one group of demonstrators found itself swiftly surrounded by armed police officers in paramilitary garb while another team used knives to open tents, forcibly ejecting the occupants and destroying whatever property they found inside. The tent acting as a medical center did not escape the attackers’ attention; one witness says that this was soon reduced to “shreds,” its remains thrown across the park along with other property forcibly taken from the demonstrators..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120103com5.html
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guess where this is? pero wala pa ring epekto ito sa mga zzzzombies sa tabi.tabi.
"Miles away in this unfortunate country’s capital, the military and the executive have been busily accumulating new powers. A few months ago, the nation’s president claimed the right to order the assassination of one of his own citizens on the grounds that the latter was alleged to be cooperating with terrorists. Now he is planning to sign legislation to the effect that all those accused on terrorism — even citizens on home territory — will be imprisoned indefinitely by the military rather than the civilian authorities."
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