"We just have to accept this difference if we want a peaceful life – abnormal behaviour by the rich classes – otherwise we feel too much pain thinking about what we can't afford".
If its intentions were peaceful as claimed, this behaviour is "incomprehensible", says Pierre Goldschmidt, a former deputy head of the IAEA.Mr ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, seems less certain of this.
Whether this important period in Nigeria's history is peaceful will partly depend on the behaviour of the politicians and their hired thugs, as well as the determination of militant Islamist group Boko Haram to disrupt democracy.
Rights to peaceful protest do not extend to threatening behaviour and the police have powers to deal with any such acts".
IT WAS meant as a marker for the world's readiness to accept Iran's right to benefit from the peaceful uses of nuclear power, despite its provocative behaviour.
"They have legitimacy in the eyes of the community," says Clifford Stott, an expert in crowd behaviour at the University of Liverpool, "because they facilitate peaceful protest, they don't carry guns and they can't arrest people".
New legislation has restricted even peaceful protest; the police have got tougher on bad behaviour; and figures released by the Home Office this week show that animal experiments have reached their highest level in 14 years.
