ANNALILA: Indian expatriates take out anti-corruption rallies in Europe!

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Hasan Suroor, The Hindu / LONDON, August 22, 2011.

A supporter of Anna Hazare during a rally in support of the Jan Lokpal Bill at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Monday, August 22, 2011. Photo Rajeev Bhatt - The Hindu.

Anti-corruption rallies were held in Britain and France.

Indian expatriates in Europe have come out in support of Anna Hazare’s campaign with anti-corruption rallies being held in Britain and France.

In London, people in Gandhi caps and wrapped up in the Indian tri-colour gathered near India House to demand a strong and effective anti-corruption law. They carried placards and raised slogans calling for a “corruption-free India”.

“We are ordinary Indians and our message is simple and clear: we want an effective and transparent system to check corruption and we want everyone regardless of their political affiliation to support Anna’s campaign,” said one protester.

A rally was also held outside the Oval cricket ground, the venue of India-England Test match.

Avinash Dadhich, a law student, who is on a hunger strike in solidarity with Hazare, said “enough is enough” referring to the widespread corruption in India.

“People are the victims of corruption,” he said.

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LONDON RIOTS: 3 killed, 750 arrested!

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Altamash Hashmi, CNN-IBN / Updated Aug 10, 2011 at 09:09pm IST.

New Delhi: A massive police presence and hundreds of arrests have helped calm the situation in London where riots have raged for the past four days. However, other cities like Birmingham and Manchester are now seeing similar chaos, with mobs looting stores, burning property and attacking police stations.

Britain is going through its worst mob violence in decades and now people are coming out on the streets to protect their businesses, while demanding tougher response from law enforcement agencies.

A resident of Enfield Resident said, "They need to feel afraid of harming families. I've got a family. We do not want families and kids crying in their own houses feeling unsafe because the police are not containing and crushing this stupid uprising of a load of hoodies who are just bums."

"We are the Enfield anti-rioting squad. You want to riot our turf then let's have it mate. We are here to smash you up. You want to riot our place, we will riot you mate. This is our area not your area," said another resident.

The riots in London have stopped, after a tough crackdown of 750 arrests, 16000 policemen deployed, but they have spread to even more cities:

In Manchester where Mobs attacked shops.

In Birmingham, Three British Asians were killed while protecting their family.

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LONDON RIOTS: Police calm London, but riots flare across U.K.!

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AP / The Hindu / LONDON, August 10, 2011.

Fire-fighters tackle the fire at a recycling depot in Tottenham Hale, London on Wednesday - AP.

Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London on Wednesday in a bid to end Britain’s worst rioting in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence driven by diverse and brazen crowds of young people.

Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings frightened and outraged Britons just a year before their country is to host the summer Olympic Games, bringing demands for a tougher response from law enforcement. Police across the country have made more than 1,100 arrests since the violence broke out over the weekend.

In London, where armored vehicles and convoys of police vans patrolled the streets, authorities said there would be 16,000 officers on duty -- almost triple the number present Monday. They said a large presence would remain in the city through the next 24 hours at least.

The show of force seems to have worked.

“Without wishing to speak too soon it’s been reasonably quiet for us so far tonight,” London’s Fire Brigade said in a message posted to Twitter earlier in the evening. “Let’s hope it stays that way.”

But outside the capital, chaos was spreading.

In the northwestern city of Manchester, hundreds of youths {hbox}” some looking as young as 10 --rampaged through the city center, hurling bottles and stones at police and vandalizing stores. A women’s clothing store on the city’s main shopping street was set ablaze, along with a disused library in nearby Salford.

Manchester’s assistant chief constable Garry Shewan said looting and arson had taken place there on an unprecedented scale.

“We want to make it absolutely clear {hbox}” they have nothing to protest against,” he said. “There is nothing in a sense of injustice and there has been no spark that has led to this.”

Britain’s riots began Saturday when an initially peaceful protest over a police shooting in London’s Tottenham neighborhood turned violent. That clash has morphed into a general lawlessness in London and several other cities that police have struggled to halt.

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What Happened to Mark Duggan, The Man Who Sparked the London Riots?

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By LEE FERRAN and MIGUEL MARQUEZ, http://abcnews.go.com / Aug. 9, 2011.

Mark Duggan, above, was shot by Scotland Yard was the spark behind the Tottenham riots. (Rex Features/AP Photo).

On the night of Thursday, Aug. 4, a 29-year-old father of four with reported links to London gangs was shot and killed by officers in London's Scotland Yard. Five days later, more than 500 people have been arrested, at least 111 police officers have been injured, one person has died and several buildings have been completely engulfed in flames in one of the largest riots in England's modern history.

The riot is believed to have grown out of a peaceful vigil in the London neighborhood of Tottenham for the death of Mark Duggan that quickly spiraled out of control. London's Metropolitan Police declined to answer questions posed by ABC News about what exactly occurred the night Duggan was gunned down, but an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed today that when Duggan was killed, he likely had never fired on police.

According to an account provided by the IPCC, Duggan was a passenger in a minicab when the cab was stopped Thursday evening by submachine gun-toting officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Trident -- a special operation "dealing with gun crime among black communities, in particular drug-related shootings."

What happened next is unclear due to conflicting reports by the IPCC and London-based media, which only have basic facts in common: multiple shots were fired, at least one bullet was lodged in a police radio worn by one of the officers and when it was over, Duggan was dead.

Based on the IPCC account, two shots were fired by a single officer. Later, after Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene, the IPCC said a post-mortem examination revealed he had been shot in the right arm but was felled by a single shot to the chest. A non-official handgun was recovered from the scene, but it did not appear that gun had been fired, the IPCC said.

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LONDON RIOTS: Extra police patrol London's streets as Britain braces for more riots!

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By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN / August 9, 2011 -- Updated 1800 GMT (0200 HKT).

London (CNN) -- Some 16,000 police officers will be on the streets of London Tuesday night, after British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed tough action to quell rioting in Britain's cities.

He said the extra officers -- more than twice as many as the night before -- would tackle the "criminality, pure and simple" that has shaken the capital. Officers from several other cities were drafted in to help in the effort.

"People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets and make them safe for the law-abiding," Cameron said.

Violence initially sparked by the shooting death of a 29-year-old man in London, Mark Duggan, spread to other parts of the nation Monday night, with dramatic scenes of blazing buildings and confrontations between police and hooded youths.

The trouble -described by police as "'copycat criminal activity" -takes place against a backdrop of austerity measures and budget cuts.

An independent police body reported Tuesday that there was "no evidence" that Duggan had opened fire at officers, a result that may further anger his community. The police appealed for calm in light of the report.

The Metropolitan Police in London said Monday night's disturbances were the worst the force "has seen in current memory for unacceptable levels of widespread looting, fires and disorder."

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RIOTS SPREAD BEYOND LONDON: PM Cameron recalls Parliament, promises robust police action!

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The Associated Press / NDTV / Updated: August 09, 2011 16:34 IST.

London:  British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday to deal with the crisis touched off by three days of rioting in London. Mr Cameron described the scenes of burned buildings and smashed windows on the streets of London and several other British cities as "sickening."

However, he refrained from ordering more extreme anti-rioting measures, such as calling in the military to help the beleaguered police restore order.

Mr Cameron canceled all leave for police and promised to bring in reinforcements from around the country. He said 450 arrests had been made so far, and promised many more if the looting continued. "I am determined, the government is determined, to see justice done," he said in a televised news conference. (Watch)

A wave of violence and looting has raged across London, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (See pictures)

In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks into early Tuesday. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence during London's 2012 Summer Olympics, less than a year away.

In a rare move, England's soccer match Wednesday against the Netherlands in London's Wembley stadium was canceled, preventing unruly crowds from gathering and freeing up police officers who would have protected the game.

Police called in hundreds of reinforcements and volunteer police officers-- and made a rare decision to deploy armored vehicles in some of the worst-hit districts -- but still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool.

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London Burns as Riots Spread, David Cameron rushes home!

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William Underhill, thedailybeast.com / Aug 8, 2011 8:54 PM EDT.

Riot police walk along Clarence Road in Hackney on August 8, 2011 in London, England., Dan Istitene / Getty Images.

Prime Minister David Cameron rushes home as rioting escalates and violence spreads beyond the capital. The mayhem is mostly thuggery, but may reflect unresolved grievances against authority, says William Underhill.

Prime Minister David Cameron breaks off a holiday abroad to return home. So, too, does the mayor of London and the leader of the Labour opposition. The home secretary issues a call for community leaders to cooperate with the police, and the city’s police chief urges parents to check the whereabouts of their children. More than 200 people are arrested.

Something strange and disturbing is happening on the streets of London. For three successive nights rioters have brought mayhem to patches of the capital on a scale not seen for at least 25 years. Burnt-out cars and stores testify to a mood in the capital that’s turned ugly for reasons that commentators struggle to identify.

And the trouble shows little sign of subsiding. Last night saw violence flare in areas of the city, including quiet outer suburbs previously untouched by the trouble—despite a massive police presence. Cars were set ablaze and officers clashed with youths armed with steel bars and wooden planks.

Worse still, the violence and looting were no longer confined to London. Gangs of masked youths also were rampaging through the heart of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city, smashing windows and breaking into stores to steal.

The mystery is what lies behind the trouble. The immediate cause is clear enough: the fatal shooting by police Saturday night of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, a poor district of North London. In the aftermath of his death, a peaceful protest outside a neighborhood police station abruptly turned violent and soon spread to nearby streets.

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London riots spread south of Thames!

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Sam Jones, Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor and Ben Quinn, guardian.co.uk / Monday 8 August 2011 08.41 BST.

Riot police and youths near a Currys store that was broken into in Brixton, south London, as a second night of rioting hit London. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/Press Association.

Violence, vandalism and looting spread beyond Tottenham and Enfield to reach Brixton, leaving 35 police injured.

There has been a second night of rioting across London, with violence erupting in several of the capital's boroughs, from Brixton in the south to Enfield and Islington in the north and Walthamstow to the east.

What police are calling "copycat criminal activity" – some of it apparently part of an orchestrated plan – has so far resulted in 100 arrests.

Sunday night's rioting followed disturbances on Saturday night in Tottenham, which came after the fatal shooting by police of Mark Duggan, 29, on Thursday.

In a statement on Monday morning, the Metropolitan police said they were shocked at the levels of "disgraceful violence" that had left 35 officers injured.

"Officers responding to sporadic disorder in a number of boroughs made more than 100 arrests throughout last night and early this morning.

"This is in addition to the 61 arrests made on Saturday night and Sunday morning … Officers are shocked at the outrageous level of violence directed against them. At least nine officers were injured overnight in addition to the 26 injured on Saturday night.

"We will not tolerate this disgraceful violence. The investigation continues to bring these criminals to justice."

Shops in Enfield Town and the A10 retail park were vandalised and looted, and there were reports of two vehicles set on fire.

Mounted police were seen chasing groups of masked youths, some carrying sticks, away from stores, while lines of riot police readied themselves for trouble.

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Dow Chemicals 'icing on the cake' for London Olympics; activists furious!

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August 8, 2011 / PTI, London / DC.

As the year-long countdown begins for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers here have been hit by the first major controversy around the mega sporting event with activists of Bhopal gas disaster planning protests against Dow Chemical Company being one of the official sponsors.

A fabric wrap

London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe and London mayor Boris Johnson have enthusiastically welcomed Dow Jones, but campaigners seeking justice for Bhopal gas victims are up in arms.

Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide Corporation in 2001.

A spokesman of the London 2012 organising committee told the Press Trust of India today: "It is a matter of record that the plant at the time of this human tragedy was not owned by Dow Chemical.

Dow was appointed as the supplier of the wrap following a rigorous procurement process. All of our suppliers must work within our own sustainable sourcing code and reflect our values and sustainability requirements."

Dow Chemicals' controversial sponsorship has already made news in the British news media.

'Awful legacies of the past'

As part of the sponsorship, Dow Chemical will produce a fabric 'wrap' around the main stadium. It is supposed to be 'sustainable' with resins made by Dow's Performance Plastics Division. It is also said to be 35 per cent lighter and have a lower carbon footprint compared with conventional materials.

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Riots in north London over fatal police firing; 8 cops injured!

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PTI / The Hindu / LONDON, August 7, 2011.

In this image from video, a bus and shop burn in Tottenham in north London late Saturday, after two police cars were attacked by members of a community where a young man was shot dead by police on Thursday - AP.

In one of the worst instances of public protest in the U.K. in recent years, an irate mob went on a rampage in north London, setting vehicles on fire and indulging in looting to protest against the killing of a 29-year-old local man in police firing.

Eight police men were injured overnight in the violence, including one with a head wound, and admitted to hospital after trouble broke out in Tottenham following the killing of Mark Duggan, a father of four, in the firing by the cops.

About 300 people had gathered outside a police station on the Tottenham High Road, Saturday evening, demanding “justice”.

The protest was earlier peaceful but turned violent when police cars were set alight using petrol bombs.

The situation was brought under control by early on Sunday morning.

The London Ambulance Service said separately that a total of 10 people had been treated and nine taken to hospital.

The protest took the form of a riot when hooded youths gathered and set fire to a bus and other vehicles in the area.

Shops in the area were looted with people seen pushing away shopping trolleys full of goods.

Duggan was killed by a specialist police team that deals with gun crime in London’s Afro-Caribbean communities. He was in a minicab when he was challenged by the police team and then killed in an exchange of fire on Thursday evening.

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