Meanwhile more than 120 people have died on the streets since January 5th, most killed by firebombs thrown by the opposition and many shot by police.Conditions are hardly amenable for any future organisation of credible elections.
It reported that 119 boys are born in the country for every 100 girls and that by 2020, 24m men of marrying age might find themselves without wives.Nine churches in Malaysia were attacked with firebombs or vandalised with paint.
Israeli commuters disembark from the light railway before it crosses Palestinian areas, fearing that the train will be attacked with stones and firebombs.
A priest in a working-class area of Glasgow has had guns fired through his windows, firebombs thrown at his church and innumerable telephone threats.
In Brussels, firebombs were thrown into a synagogue.See article: A burst of anti-Semitism in FrancePortugal's about-to-be prime minister, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, named his ministers.
Instead of high-altitude strikes in daylight, which had failed to do much damage to the industrial centres attacked, low-level strikes at night, using napalm firebombs, were tried, with startling success.
Possibly the most tragic events of the year were the attacks at two secondary schools: in March a 17-year-old gunman shot and killed 15 people, most of them female students, in a rampage that began in Winnenden, and in September an ax-wielding 18-year-old man set off two firebombs in a classroom in Ansbach, wounding 10 people.
Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Mr Golding, who declared a state of emergency on Sunday in two Kingston parishes after suspected supporters of Coke attacked police stations with firebombs and gunfire, has proposed tougher anti-crime laws, including anti-gang provisions.
Just after midnight, a police officer's home in the area was attacked with firebombs, leaving three cars destroyed.
The attack was reportedly by masked Jewish extremists who targeted the house with graffiti before throwing firebombs into the home in the early hours of 31 July while the family were asleep.
