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Meanwhile, Mr Bulama was making his way to commemorative protests in Abuja today.

There were, however, large commemorative protests in Hong Kong.Amid mounting concern about the condition of an estimated 2.4m people who have fled fighting in the Swat valley in Pakistan, the American administration asked Congress to approve $200m in emergency aid.

The fact that so many troops are still needed, merely to prevent commemorative protests, suggests that China's Tibet policy is in need of an overhaul.China's officials seem to be contemplating nothing of the sort.

The fact that so many troops are still needed, merely to prevent commemorative protests, suggests that China's Tibet policy is in need of an overhaul.

Such criticisms intensified recently when elected officials and activists protested a commemorative Coors Light beer can for the parade that included the Puerto Rican flag and a modified version of the parade's logo, saying it was insulting and sent the wrong message when the theme this year was dedicated to health.

An American group of former prisoners of war, for example, has pledged to protest the conferences and commemorative galas.

So tied to Lost Cause ideology was this commemorative event that the local NAACP staged a protest.

Photocopied warzone reports, commemorative crosses, entreaties and signs that have crept in from other people's protests - "Pensioners want a slice of the cake, not crumbs" - compete, and an estate agent's board has even found its way amongst the piles of stuff on the far side of Haw's placards, the accumulation of a near-five-year tenure.

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NBC, which holds the exclusive broadcasting rights to the Olympics in the United States, cut the commemorative display and replaced it with an interview with swimmer Michael Phelps, stirring a Twitter-storm of British protest — "rude and disrespectful on so many levels," as tweeter Tamsin Wood was quoted by The Daily Mail as saying.

But in the face of the protests, the president's itinerary in Bahia has been reduced, and he is no longer scheduled to attend the commemorative Mass on Wednesday.