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...Georgia Brandishing Sticks, Throwing Carrots More than 60,000 protesters converged on Tbilisi on April 9, calling for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign over his mishandling of last year's conflict with Russia. The demonstrators, representing a wide range of opposition parties, criticized Saakashvili's lavish lifestyle and his defeat in the war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Some threw carrots and cabbage at the presidential residence, released a live rabbit (to represent, they said, his rabbitlike cowardice against Russia) and mocked him in political theater performances. But after a week, the number of protesters had dwindled...
...racketeering, stemming from a controversial $5 billion arms deal he brokered in 1999. Zuma denied any wrongdoing, and said the charges were politically motivated. A judge dismissed the case in 2008 due to a legal technicality, but the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) appealed the ruling. Mbeki would eventually resign as president following allegations that he interfered with the case. The corruption charges were dropped April 9, 2009, just weeks before South Africa's April 22 national elections...
waterboarding • acknowledgement of as torture by former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who says he hopes he "would've had the courage to resign" if he'd "known about it at the time I was serving," but, hey, he didn't know • acknowledgement of as torture in Bush administration memos finally released by the Obama administration that also describe lots of other "enhanced interrogation" techniques that "critics liken to torture" - like, say, repeatedly slamming people against walls ("walling") - but, hey, that's still no reason to hold the officials who authorized these illegal tactics, you know, accountable...
...adversaries, the "red shirts" whose pro-Thaksin antigovernment demonstrations brought Bangkok to a halt last weekend, have a long list of grievances: They are calling for the current government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign and for new elections. They are also demanding an end to what they see as interference in politics by the military, courts and the king's Privy Council, an amnesty for Thaksin, and his return as Prime Minister...
...protest on Monday and Tuesday, but 123 people, including many soldiers, were injured. The Red Shirts are still claiming casualties, though no independent source has confirmed this. Prime Minister Abhisit said no red-shirt protesters were killed the military in breaking up their demonstration. He has refused to resign, called for a political reform process and invited the opposition to participate...