World Popular Resistance Clippings 29/4/2013

8 accused of stirring unrest in copper mine project wanted in Myanmar

Myanmar’s regional police authorities on Sunday issued warrants for the arrest of eight people accused of making instigation to create instability in Letpadaungtaung copper mine project areas in Monywa, northwestern Sagaing region, local media reported Monday. The eight are members of Yangon Public [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 23/4/2013

TMOA decries placing of IEDs

Imphal, April 22 2013: Teacher and Medical Officer Association, RIMS has also decried the placing of two powerful IEDs in the hospital campus on April 20 . Militant outfit Maoist Communist Party (MCP) had claimed responsibility for the two bombs which were being planted in a garden in the Regional [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 22/4/2013

Plot to disrupt UCPN (Maoist) gathering foiled: Police

BARDIYA, April 22: Police on Monday arrested four people along with arms and ammunition they had allegedly hoarded in their attempt to disrupt the mass gathering of the UCPN (Maoist), which was to be addressed by senior Maoist leaders including Pushpa Kamal Dahal in Gulariya. According to [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 16/4/2013

 

Social conflict in Latin America sparked by inequality: UNDP report

UNITED NATIONS, April 16 — The Latin American countries with greatest numbers of conflicts are those with broad social inequalities and governments with limited capacity to manage unrest, said a report released on Tuesday in English by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 11/4/2013

 

Army beefs up security at jail holding top rebels

The 303rd Infantry Brigade has beefed up the forces of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to secure the Negros Occidental District Jail in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, where a notorious rebel leader and his wife are detained on non-bailable charges, its commander, [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 15/3/2013

 

Protests mount in Algeria

ALGIERS, Algeria — A towering pillar of black smoke rises menacingly above a cramped eastern suburb of the capital on an otherwise calm recent afternoon. Residents of a nearby shantytown have blocked a multi-lane highway, burning tires to protest the death of two of their neighbors killed by speeding [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 14/3/2013

Colombia’s biggest coal exporter attacked with explosives

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Unknown assailants bombed the rail line of Colombia’s largest coal exporter on Thursday, knocking 17 wagons off the rails, the Cerrejon coal company said. The latest attack comes only days after Cerrejon and its workers signed a wage deal to end a strike that had [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 28/2/2013

Top NPA leader arrested in Bohol

MANILA, Philippines – Combined government security forces on Tuesday arrested in Bohol a top New People’s Army (NPA) leader in Central Visayas. Arrested for illegal possession of firearms was Ruben Nabas, who is also known as Ka Ebyong, Ka Elmer, Ka Padi and Ka Rex in the underground movement. [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 3/2/2013

Sudan police clash with students at Khartoum university

KHARTOUM – Sudanese riot police fired teargas at students on Friday as government supporters stormed the main university in the capital Khartoum, activists and witnesses said, in a second day of unrest on the campus. Sudan has avoided the Arab Spring style uprisings which unseated rulers in [...]

Algerian soccer violence signals mounting discontent

An upsurge in soccer-related violence in Algeria serves as a warning that 18 months after the government quelled mass protests with increased wages and social spending frustration is mounting with the failure of the country’s gerontocracy in control since independence to share power with a younger generation, create jobs and address housing problems. In the [...]