Ten years ago the deaths of 17-year-old Zyed and Bounna Traore, 15, while they were trying to escape from the police in a banlieue, unleashed three weeks of fierce rioting.
On the six o'clock news, we watched in disbelief and anger the fierce rioting in Derry and the extraordinary images of thousands of Catholic people fleeing their burning homes in Belfast.
The first was the civil-rights movement, a revolution that exploded in fierce urban riots across the country.
In the 1920s, the rivalry had gotten so fierce that riots erupted on the streets of downtown Baltimore on the day before "The Game" when opposing parades clashed resulting in the sons of both the Mayor of Baltimore and the Governor of Maryland were arrested in 1928.
Governments meanwhile are seeking to reduce payouts or raise retirement ages, often facing fierce resistance — witnessed by riots in France and Spain.
Once they had battled and beaten Egypt's fierce and well-equipped riot police, they found that the government could do little but retreat.In recent years across the region, older people have increasingly complained about the rudeness and impatience of younger generations.
The morning after Palestinian rioting disintegrated into fierce gunfire, many Israeli and even some Palestinian political analysts were surprised to find themselves crediting Prime Minister Ehud Barak with defusing the crisis.
