* Browsing in my daily news roundup, I stumbled upon this footnote Nikkei article, which details violent clashes on the 15th apparently involving at least hundreds of Arabian Iranians with Iranian police forces in the oil-rich Khuzestan region at the South-Western border with Iraq.
* Apparently 3 people died as a result of the clashes, and more than 250 people were taken into custody. The reason for the clashes are completely unknown at the time of publication (8pm Japan Time, April 16th), and it seems unlikely that unrest in the otherwise oil-saturated area would involve thousands of individuals (usually about 10 times the number remanded in custody) that would spontaneously combust into such violence...
* Are we witnessing more engineered civil unrest in the tradition of the "genuine" early anti-Mossadegh demos in pre-Shah Iran 1950s, "genuine" anti-Chavez civil unrest in pre-coup 2002 Venezuela, "genuine" topplings of Saddam Hussein's statue in post-occupation Baghdad, or in the current "genuine" outpouring of anti-Japanese demos in repressive Communist China?
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hey dude, the demonstrations in china are genuine alright, well the ones today were, not sure about the ones last week. the ones today were about as genuine as what happen here last week, since the government has been (apparently) detaining organisers...
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050416_2.htm
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