Word: molotov
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Hate crimes against Gypsies abound in Europe. In Hungary, at least 30 Molotov cocktail attacks have been perpetrated against Gypsy homes over the past year. Last year in Italy, appalling photos were published showing indifferent sunbathers enjoying a day at the beach a few meters away from two drowned Gypsy girls, who lay dead under towels. In Slovakia, police arrested six Gypsy boys, forced them to remove their clothes, and then demanded that they hit and kiss one another...
...would go on despite threats of violence. But in the end, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the risk of attacks was too high. "We're not talking about a handful of hooligans - there were several thousand people ready to attack the participants and the police with everything from Molotov cocktails to knives, iron bars and steel-ball slingshots," Dacic told the Blic newspaper on Tuesday, Sept. 22. "They also planned to attack Western embassies." (Read "Why Asia's Gays Are Starting to Win Acceptance...
...young man spent the tumultuous summer making Molotov cocktails used in the street demonstrations, spray-painting walls with antigovernment slogans and distributing leaflets supporting the leading opposition figure, Mir-Hussein Mousavi. But he was no ordinary hooligan: he also happened to be a top law-school student at University of Tehran, an idealist who was hoping to use his degree to really get under the regime's skin...
...started a 24-hour psychological war room against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi told a moderator with seeming outrage on Iranian state TV. Later in the program, the host said he had heard the Saudi-owned station al-Arabiya had even taught Iranian viewers how to build Molotov cocktails for use in protests. Iran's pro-government newspaper Kayhan wrote that foreign media outlets had employed Iranians in the past years, some with foreign nationalities, "in order to facilitate relations between domestic and foreign anti-revolutionary forces." (See TIME's photo-essay "Behind the Scenes with Mousavi...
...Police commissioner Bencze says that his officers are investigating as many as 18 incidents of anti-Roma violence, and believe that eight attacks could be the work of the same person or people who killed Koka. "The attacks are usually with Molotov cocktails and various types of firearms," says Bencze. "The attacks are usually at night, and against houses which are on the outskirts of the villages...