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	israelinsider: politics: Barak testifies that severity of October riots was unexpected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak told the Or Commission, investigating the October 2000 riots in which 13 Israeli Arabs were killed, that his government accepted overall responsibility for the events.
		blame for the deaths and injuries in the riots.
		According to Barak, the background to the riots was based in the inability of "Israel's Arab citizens to realize their rights." Barak said the anger within the Arab community had been growing for years.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/319.htm (1138 words)

	Copts Night of Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On October 18, the Islamist group, Mujahadeen of Egypt (said to be responsible for the recent Sharm el-Sheikh bombings) incited Muslims via the Internet to act against Christians in connection with the video.
		On October 31, Christianity Today visited Christian leaders in Alexandria and obtained the video CD from a Muslim journalist after police had confiscated and destroyed most of the CDs, ordering Christians not to show them to anyone.
		Others suspect that state security was behind the rioting to discredit the Muslim Brotherhood as violent agitators, thus undermining their popular support.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /197/Copts.htm (1507 words)

	October 1990 Riots in Jerusalem, Gorbachev’s Nobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On Friday, October 12, 1991, Israel’s president, Yitzak Shamir, claimed this was a premeditated plot.
		The Palestinians claim in response that this was in response to a Jewish fundamentalist group’s plan to lay a symbolic cornerstone for a new Jewish temple.
		Also on October 16, 1990, a large, 290 member delegation from the Soviet Union was attending a series of meetings in Kansas.
	www.bibletime.com /date/gulfwar/october/index.html (486 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Head of the Police Investigation Unit Herzl Shviro said the move was ordered even though an appeal against the decision not to press charges against police officers in connection with the deaths has not been filed yet.
		Families charge police covered up October Riots evidence, after report recommends no action against officers involved in death of 13 Arabs; relatives vow to continue fight until responsible parties brought to justice, threaten to turn to international court
		"There is a connection between the intifada and the October Riots: More than the latest intifada was Palestinian, it was an intifada of the Israeli right-wing against the (peace) process, and I think they have succeeded in it," he said.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3148867,00.html (598 words)

	Riots in Hungary
		News organs that publish riot pictures tend to blur the faces of policemen, although it is legally unclear why an officer on duty should remain unidentifiable.
		October 23rd 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, a day that every political power wanted to make special – on their own terms.
		Both the government and the police have tried to downplay the significance of the riots, arguing that the siege of the MTV and the ensuing street fights can be attributed to a few hundred football hooligans looking for trouble.
	riotsinhungary.blog.hu (4767 words)

	Ayodhya And After - Chapter 11 - The Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Or villagers who got involved in a riot in town went back to their village and attacked the Muslims they could find there (that was the scenario of the huge Bhagalpur carnage of 1989, this repeated on a smaller scale in Gonda).
		Because, if all the riots are caused by this one factor, then that means that there are no longer any riots being caused by all the other factors that used to cause riots in the past.
		In the typical riot cases where Hindus merely react to attacks by some Muslims, it is certainly possible to keep the quantity of violent revenge at a lower level than is now the case.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/ayodhya/ch11.htm (11867 words)

	Middle East Institute: Policy Brief
		October 1, 2003 (Washington, DC) – On the third anniversary of the October 2000 Al-Aqsa riots and the recent Or Commission Report, Dr. Yitzhak Reiter addressed socio-political concerns of the Israeli-Arab community.
		For both sides, the issues of self-determination and, ultimately, an enduring peace process have never been more pervasive, and the events of October 2000 serve as a vital framework for future policy.
		The October 2000 riots produced a state of chaos throughout the state of Israel.
	www.mideasti.org /articles/doc153.html (734 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PARIS –– The Paris suburbs were "relatively calm" overnight Friday on the first anniversary of the death of two teenagers which sparked France's most serious riots in decades, police said.
		Six police officers suffered minor injuries and 25 people were arrested after fighting but the feared flare-up of violence in communities with high numbers of immigrants such failed to materialise.
		Riot police briefly clashed with about 30 stone-throwing hooded youths in the eastern district of Montfermeil as police helicopters used searchlights to illuminate an area where there were no street lights.
	www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=36951 (299 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav may have called the October 14 riots in Mau a blot on his two-year rule, but the government’s credibility took a further knock from its velvet-gloved treatment of independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
		Mukhtar was booked in the FIR for murder, instigation, and violation of curfew imposed to curb the communal frenzy that claimed 16 lives and left a hundred injured.
		The case took a twist when Jitendra Yadav, who had lodged the FIR against Mukhtar for shooting his brother Ram Pratap Yadav during the riots, gave a written statement to the chief minister that Mukhtar was innocent.
	www.the-week.com /25nov06/statescan_article4.htm (604 words)

	Lessons from the Or Commission - Dan Diker
		The October 2000 riots were to a great degree the result of incitement and ideological radicalization of the Israeli Arab sector by local Arab political and religious leaders, the Palestinian Authority, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and foreign radical Islamic groups.
		During the violence of October 2000, the main areas of confrontation inside Israel focused on Arab towns and villages in the northern part of the "Triangle" and in the Galilee where the Northern Islamic Movement is strongest.
		However, the October 2000 riots were to a great degree the result of incitement and ideological radicalization of the Israeli Arab sector by local Arab political and religious leaders, the Palestinian Authority, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and foreign radical Islamic groups.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp512.htm (4180 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The committee met to discuss the findings and recommendations of the commission, which was formed after 13 Arab-Israelis were killed by police fire during the riots.
		During the meeting Or also differentiated between long term and short term factors that sparked the October riots.
		It was unanimously agreed that one of the most heated long term factors causing the riots is the discriminatory budgets allocated for the Arab sector, he said, suggesting the government should gradually improve the situation.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3101970,00.html (350 words)

	JAFFE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES - STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT
		The violent incidents involving Arab-Israelis in early October 2000, and their subsequent boycott of the prime ministerial elections in February 2001, made the issue of their relations with both Jews and the Israeli government an urgent issue on the public agenda.
		In the wake of the October riots and the election boycott, this idea of a bi-national state would appear to be gaining strength.
		One way or another, those with an isolationist orientation see the October riots and the election boycott as indications that there is growing support for their outlook among the general Arab populace in Israel.
	www.tau.ac.il /jcss/sa/v4n2p3Hor.html (2934 words)

	CONGRESS PARTY in India is responsible for 2500 riots between 1950 and 1990
		So, unlike in former riots which were mainly an urban phenomenon, the Gujarat riots were widespread in rural and tribal areas also.
		In Kaira, Gujarat, whose Muslim population is hardly 9 per cent, riots broke out in 1979 because loudspeakers were used for azans (Muslim call for prayer) and because a mosque and a muzafir khana were constructed on an unauthorised piece of land.
		In his foreword to R. Singh's book on `Islam and Religious Riots, K. Gill states bluntly: "Much of the `secular' discourse in India has been based on a `politically correct' refusal to confront the nature of religious communities and institutions, and their past and present activities, and on the fiction that `all religions are equal'...
	geocities.com /hsitah9/riots.html (5349 words)

	[Israel] Or Commission member slams PID for closing files
		Professor Shimon Shamir, a member of the Or Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 riots, sharply criticized the Police Investigations Department (PID) for closing the files of the 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian shot to death by policemen during the riots without calling for a single indictment.
		Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) MK Muhammad Barakeh said the minority Arab community in Israel and its leadership would not rest until the report was "thrown into the dustbin" and the decisions rescinded.
		Marches and rallies are planned on October 1 in the various places where the victims were killed to mark the fifth anniversary of the events, as well as a mass parade from Kafr Manda to Sakhnin.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1487744/posts (822 words)

	BSP demands CBI probe into Mau riots
		Alleging that there was a political conspiracy behind the Mau riots, she said that the government should have made adequate arrangements for the annual Dussehra celebrations, which had led to the riots.
		Describing the situation there as worse than those in the days of partition, she said her party felt that the demand raised by certain sections to deploy army in the trouble-torn areas was justified.
		Apprehending that the government could instigate more communal riots before the next assembly elections to deflect attention from its failure and misrule, she demanded that it be dismissed immediately.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/oct/20probe.htm (266 words)

	Orr report
		Things had not turned so deadly for Israeli Arabs since the massacre at Kafr Kasim on October 29, 1956, when 49 villagers were shot to death by Israel's border patrol as the villagers returned from their fields.
		After the October 2000 riots, Barak appointed a state inquiry commission headed by Supreme Court Justice Theodor Orr to probe the events.
		Some felt that the implication that an Arab protest means riots symbolized the rift between the Israel Police and the Arab minority in Israel.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/030905/orr.shtml (569 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Former police commander deflects blame for Israeli Arab riot deaths
		Former Northern District Police Commander Alik Ron completed two days of long-awaited testimony before the Orr Commission investigating last October's riots in the Galilee in which 13 Israeli Arabs were killed by police bullets.
		Ron told the commission that the October riots and some of the police reactions should not be detached from the general atmosphere of the time.
		Ron's testimony, which was broadcast live on Israeli radio and television, took place before the specially-constructed glass partition in Jerusalem's Supreme Court building, scene of emotional and occasionally violent confrontations between police officers and the family members of victims during previous testimonies.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/politics/articles/pol_0049.htm (991 words)

	Al-Aqsa Intifada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following an October 4 suicide bombing in Maxim restaurant, Haifa, which claimed the lives of 21 Israelis, Israel claimed that Syria and Iran sponsored the Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, and were responsible for the terrorist attack.
		The operation ended on October 16, leaving widespread destruction and more than 100 Palestinians dead, at least 20 of whom were under the age of 16.
		On October 21, the Israeli Air Force killed Adnan al-Ghoul, a senior Hamas bombmaker and the inventor of the Qassam rocket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/October_2000_riots_(Israel) (8232 words)

	Mulayam's Mau mascot \| Hard News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Those familiar with the intermittent riots at Madanpura in Varanasi would testify that it unfailingly springs from the contradictions of the trade, whereby Hindu traders resort to non-economic means to oust Muslim traders who have graduated from the ranks of loom workers and offer better terms to the wholesale urban traders.
		On October 13, at about 8 pm, the loudspeaker at the Bharat Milap platform was blaring at high volume; this coincided with the taravi namaaz — the Koranic recitation in the month of Ramzaan at Katra Masjid, situated directly opposite the platform.
		This was the deliberate beginning of the riots under the pretext of opposing the postponement of Bharat Milap.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /portal/2006/10/612 (1394 words)

	revolution: dili riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ethnic and religious tension has been severe in the island of East Timor ever since the predominantly Catholic nation was invaded by the predominantly Muslim Indonesia.
		Several police and Indonesian immigrants were attacked and injured in the riots, and much property was destroyed.
		In October 1995, Indonesian officials arrested 120 youths for their involvement in four more days of riots in Dili.
	www.boogieonline.com /revolution/multi/war/etimor/riots.html (226 words)

	Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To sum up, if the riots of October 1988 – that unfortunately caused, according to official figures, 169 victims, including policemen and soldieries and 600 deaths according to the plaintiff – are a painful episode, it is, however, true:
		The riots of October 1988 finally forced President Chadli Bendjedid to encourage the necessary reforms concerning political pluralism, freedom of speech, progress towards economic liberalism.
		Mosques, which are already hotbeds of subversion for many years, become centers of unrest and for organizing riots, sometimes bloody, that cover the entire territory.
	www.african-geopolitics.org /show.aspx?ArticleId=3136 (6994 words)

	Unrest in Bolivia over gas deal
		Riots over a proposed $5 billion project to export natural gas to the U.S. forced Bolivia's president to step down.
		Earlier this year, in February, 32 people died in rioting in La Paz after the president tried to impose new taxes in order to meet austerity measures prescribed by the International Monetary Fund.
		The October riots were too severe for President Sanchez de Lozada to remain in power.
	www.iags.org /n1030033.htm (967 words)

	MIFTAH--Israeli Arabs to commemorate October riots with strike
		Israeli Arabs to commemorate October riots with strike
		The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee declared a general strike on Saturday scheduled for October 1 to mark the anniversary of the riots in which 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian were killed in clashes with police.
		The riots lasted a number of days during which Israeli Arabs blocked highways and threw stones at security forces, which used live fire in an effort to maintain order.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=4863&CategoryId=5 (600 words)

	CAMERA Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That is just one of the questions surrounding a dramatic media misstep in coverage of the Palestinian riots launched in the wake of Israeli Knesset Member Ariel Sharon’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on September 28, 2000.
		On September 30, as rioting continued in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories, media reporting overwhelmingly cast events as involving frustrated Arabs equipped with mere stones facing heavily-armed Israelis.
		On October 5 the publication reran the photo on an inside page with a correction that read: “Reframing of a picture – We published on the front page of Liberation of September 30 the picture above with the wrong legend on faith of information provided by the Associated Press Agency.
	world.std.com /~camera/docs/alert/tuvia-up.html (1083 words)

	The Peacebuilder
		It was 3 years ago that in the course of demonstrations and riots 13 young Arab Israeli men were killed by Israeli security forces.
		Following the October 2000 events, the silence has since been restored, but as long as certain Israeli policies remain, that silence will be interrupted again.
		The second undercurrent is reflected by the immediate deadly response by the Israeli security forces and the Jewish apathetic acceptance of both riots and fatalities.
	www.shalam.org /Oct03.htm (1232 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Murder in Alexandria Arouses Coptic Protest
		The Coptic reaction must be understood in the light of other, recent attacks on Copts in Egypt, other abuses directed against Copts, and a lack of equal civil rights for Copts in Egyptian society.
		In October 2005, riots between Copts and Muslims broke out in Alexandria because of a play distributed on DVD that Muslims viewed as defaming Islam and Muslims.
		In the riots that broke out in Alexandria following the play's circulation on DVD, four people were killed and dozens injured.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-7-6/43589.html (939 words)

	Ministry plans program for schools to debate Oct. riots
		Ministry Director General Ronit Tirosh yesterday said classroom time devoted to the events of October 2000 will soon be incorporated in secondary school curricula for students in Arab language schools in Haifa and northern regions.
		Tirosh stressed the significance of October 2000 in her comments yesterday: "That October is part of a series of hard experiences that Israeli society has experienced in relations between Jews and Israeli Arabs.
		Tirosh showed an open-minded attitude to discussing the October riots and their aftermath, but the initiative will not include class debates of one disputed incident about the start of the intifada - the visit by then opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/recognbk04.htm (767 words)

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