What began as political riots was rapidly transformed into ethnic killings of the Kikuyu people, who in turn launched reprisal attacks.
Apparently ignoring a recent political riot in the state of Mexico in which at least nine people were killed, Mr. Zedillo added, "We can attest that suspicions, recriminations and electoral conflicts have been resigned to history".
"We should have flown via Madras and Calcutta on the 25th of November," says Crosbie. "But when we got to Calcutta there were political riots going on and all flights were cancelled.
Christmas trees are stacked for sale along the central path between the tramlines … In the side streets, lorry-loads of police are waiting; for any large crowd, nowadays, is capable of turning into a political riot".
Another video montage, by Tigran Khachatryan, an Armenian, intercuts rushing crowd scenes from classic Soviet films by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov with news coverage of political riots and shots of contemporary skateboarders and other incautious youths engaging in "Jackass -style, at times plainly bone-breaking behavior.
In recent years, there has been growing interest in leveraging such technologies and data for better crisis response, with scope ranging across natural disasters [1], terrorist attacks [2], and political riots [3].
The reported cases relating to the 2010 political riots in Bangkok were excluded from this study as they were classified as mass casualties and occur only every few decades.
If people's access to online computers influences the outcomes of elections or the frequency of political riots, for example, then it would show that the old adage is truer than ever: Information really is power.
When his rival Raila Odinga accused Kibaki and his party of fraud, political riots that pitted the Kikuyu tribe against other ethnic groups rocked the country.
Framed by media reports, the image of Africa for Americans -- and others, of course -- consists of tales of unending political riots, cases of fraudulent elections, and scenes of drug-crazed teenage soldiers burning villages, amputating the hands and feet of their foes and raping women, both young and old.
