And now the near-universal consensus about that mess is that, with their reckless brutality, the authorities stoked the very unrest they were hoping to quell.
He and his followers are effective shock-troops, officially unaligned but capable when encouraged by their patrons high in the conservative establishment of exemplary brutality.The authorities are keen to prevent more unrest in the run-up to July 8th, the anniversary of the 1999 riot.
(Beijing Coma details not just the brutality of the authorities, but the callow confusion and power struggles among the students).
Many said the authorities' brutality against the demonstrators warranted comparison to the Japanese occupiers of the last century, and to Chinese Nationalist Army of Chiang Kai-shek.
So successful were they in helping their black clients, often dealing with cases of police brutality, that the authorities found an excuse to close them down and move their office to a far less prominent site.
There were four main outbreaks of cholera in London over four decades, starting in the 1830s, and although it wasn't the most deadly disease – tuberculosis killed many more people – its brutality forced city authorities to become serious about sanitation.
Other Chinese artists, however, have homed in unapologetically on the brutality of local authorities who, eager to reach government quotas, have been exposed performing forced abortions and sterilisations.
On a regular police beat, however, much of that technology is used for administration, records, and protection of the cops against allegations of abuse of authority, brutality, and so on.
In November, an Oxfam report accused the Bulgarian authorities of brutality towards migrants and cited numerous cases of alleged police beatings and extortion.
The brutality with which the authorities suppressed the disturbances led one Berber leader to accuse Bouteflika of choosing to "save the regime at the expense of the people".
