Although troubling, this sustained crackdown was hardly a surprise, given Russia's ongoing, clandestine military campaign in Ukraine's industrial east.
Even worse, the government has sustained a crackdown on mazar festivals.
The outcome of this stand off will depend partly on whether President Humala - unlike his predecessors - sustains his crackdown in the face of likely future protests.
There was also a sustained and violent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood - the Islamist movement born in Egypt in the time of the British.
Crackdowns are sustained police initiatives designed to reduce the possession and sale of illicit drugs through heightened surveillance and arrests of drug users and street-level dealers.
The unrest has been the broadest in scale since sustained riots and a bloody crackdown in 1989.
Through a widespread, sustained and at times brutal crackdown, the government has succeeded in suppressing a protest movement that shook the nation for months after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which the opposition said was fraudulent.
The federal government's Australian Border Force was forced to abandon a controversial visa crackdown in Melbourne on Friday, following sustained criticism of the operation from politicians, unions, the city council, human rights lawyers, and the people of Victoria.
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The crackdown was also responding to controversy that erupted when a visiting Loyola Marymount University student sustained life-threatening injuries after she fell from a table at a fraternity party.
