Archive for March 2010
Broken Greece on the Brink: General Strike
Video Rush: Greek General Strike: Athens Protest & Riot
Hundreds of thousands joined the mass protest through the streets of Athens, but before the protest could commence riot police units, who were positioned in every side street off the main protest route, attacked the crowd at the front of the march with tear gas, shock grenades and batons.
Police continued to clash with protestors for the remainder of the day, the more hardcore contingent of the protest attacking riot police with wooden batons, metal poles, rocks, bottles, petrol bombs and catapults.
The general strikes in Greece are expected to continue and increase for the foreseeable future, with similar scenes predicted in Spain and Portugal as identical emergency economy plans are rolled out.
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>Police and Kurds Clash During London Iraq Election
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Video Rush: Police and Kurds Clash during London Iraq Election
Some Iraqi-Kurds were complaining they were not being allowed to vote, despite holding all the correct documents. Police officers backed up by the TSG riot squad attempted to put them into a protest-style pen. This only agitated the crowd further and they blocked the street in a sit-down protest, shouting “let us vote”.
The TSG officers moved in to clear the street, arrested one man and attempted to move him in a police truck. Protestors then tried to halt the truck, scuffles broke out as officers used force to remove them and bottles and rocks were thrown. Then the shields and batons came out.
In all 13 people were arrested that day, four for violent disorder. The footage is available from Associated Press Television News.
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