The popular student movement, Otpor, or Resistance, is pressing for civil disobedience, including the blocking of roads and a halt to urban services like water, electricity, transport and garbage collection.
The government said its forces had entered because citizens were "fed up with the acts of killing, abduction, sabotage and blocking of roads committed by the terrorists," its term for its armed opponents.
The government has portrayed the group as a clandestine movement of foreign-backed militants, citing as evidence the use of explosives, the blocking of roads and burning of tires during violent confrontations with the police.
General Assar delivered a chronology of the clashes, saying they took place between protesters and the residents of the neighborhood who were angered at the blocking of roads and attacks on stores.
In France, mass demonstrations, strikes, the blocking of roads and the disruption of public services are seen as a part of normal democratic politics.In Japan, powerful pressure groups such as the Zenchu (Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives) have turned large areas of public policy into virtual no-go areas.
Gen. Tariq Hassan Al Hassan, Bahrain's chief of public security, acknowledged the death of a "rioter" in a statement that blamed protesters for "several incidents of violent attacks on police officers, attacks on citizens, destruction of property and blocking of roads".
This is exacerbated by routine as well as random checkpoints and unannounced blocking off of roads.
As federal forces closed in on El Mencho in May 2015, the CJNG launched a coordinated show of strength across Jalisco and neighbouring regions, blocking dozens of roads with hijacked vehicles and setting banks and petrol stations on fire.
Landslides and fallen trees blocked hundreds of roads, particularly in the rural northeast region.
Armed with spears, bows, and arrows these rioters set fire to shops and blocked miles of road and rail lines in Sonitpur, some calling for the resignation of Assamese Chief Minister Gogoi.
The block of road games in late March, the one that involves 17 days, 8 cities, 10 chartered plane rides.
