Normally a response to cruel or oppressive governments, riots have taken place throughout much of human history.

Often times peaceful protests turn violent. Many times police turn on protesters with violence, and sometimes peaceful protesters turn violent when confronted by police unjustly.

Throughout history, countless students/citizens have taken to the streets demanding changes. They have been a voice and a banner-carrier for populations oppressed by strict or repressive government regimes.

They have gathered together to demand for their rights, better and fairer education for all. And they have set themselves up against senseless wars, unjust killings, and violence.

Bloodshed, injury and death did not deter them. They shook entire countries to the core, brought about much-needed reforms and re-shaped the fabric of entire societies.


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In Africa, blood and injury will deter you, cos the government owned force will shoot you to death...

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1. Soweto Uprising, South Africa. 1976.


In 1974, the South African Department of Education decreed that Afrikaans was to be used in schools.

It was given equal standing with English and placed over the native Bantu languages of the black population.

Many African teachers couldn’t even speak Afrikaans, and students found their grades declining. Worse still, Afrikaans was closely tied to Apartheid and was considered the “language of the oppressor.”

On June 16, 1976, thousands of students walked out of their classrooms and headed for the Orlando Stadium, to take part in a rally planned by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council’s (SSRC) Action Committee.

They were unarmed and mostly peaceful, although a few threw rocks. When one policeman fired his gun, everyone panicked.

Police set their dogs on the children, who reacted by stoning the attacking dogs to death. So, the police began firing directly into the crowd, killing at least two students and injuring hundreds more, stirring the crowd into a frenzy of destruction.

On June 17, 1,500 heavily armed police rolled in and patrolled the streets of Soweto on foot, in armored vehicles and from helicopters.

The South African army was put on standby, as a show of military force. The official death toll is generally believed to be 176, but some estimates put the figure as high as 600. Although it would be another 14 years before Nelson Mandela was released from prison, these protests strengthened black resistance, helping pave the way for change.

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2. France Labour And Students Protest. May, 1968.


On May 3, 1968, a student protest at the Sorbonne University nearly sparked a revolution. Protesting against the closure of the University of Paris at Nanterre and the planned expulsion of a number of Nanterre students, Sorbonne University students took to the streets en masse.

The students, teachers and supporters were also fed up with France’s outdated educational system and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.

Over a period of several days, hundreds of students battled it out with police in Paris’s Latin Quarter, setting up barricades, throwing rocks and braving tear gas. Discontentment with the political and economic conditions in France boiled to the surface, and what started out as a few student protests escalated into a month and a half of utter chaos, during which several people died and hundreds were injured.

Twenty-two percent of the entire working population went on strike, demanding concessions for their working conditions and bringing the capitalist government to the verge of collapse.

Despite the injuries and bloodshed, the strikes led to a major educational reform bill, better working conditions and higher wages for workers.

This Post reminds me of when I led the most violent student demonstration back in my secondary school, May 2005. I single handedly broke 17 windows and embezzled 14 pots of jollof rice from the school kitchen. In saner climes, this would go down in history as one of the greatest examples of man's tenacity and grit in the face of oppression. Unfortunately, the Nigerian government has succeeded in covering it up as if it never happened.

3. Ferguson, Missouri.


on August 9, 2014, an unarmed 18-year-old black male, Michael Brown, was shot six times by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.

Wilson drove up to Brown and a friend and ordered the pair from the street onto a sidewalk. Words were exchanged, and Wilson shot at Brown from inside the patrol car.

When the two men began to flee, Wilson exited the car and continued to shoot, fatally wounding Brown. Accounts vary wildly from witnesses. Was Brown surrendering to the officer or was he charging Wilson?

As the story continued to develop, both peaceful protests and civil disorder broke out the day following the shooting and lasted for several days.

The Ferguson riots shed light on America's broad racial divide, which despite the strides made by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s still exists.

The uprising also brought attention to the aggressive tactics and over-militarization of civilian police in America. As a result of the events in Ferguson, President Obama has ordered a review of the military equipment supplied to police.

Sometimes, massive protest is what the government understands

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Ghen Ghen, Explorer again. This thread go be very educative o

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Trouble everywer

We probably need a slight demo in this country right now to put all these thieves we call leaders on their toes..

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Just like Fela said





We fear to fight for frEedom



We fear to fight for justice



We no wan die

Explorers:
2. France Labour And Students Protest. May, 1968.


On May 3, 1968, a student protest at the Sorbonne University nearly sparked a revolution. Protesting against the closure of the University of Paris at Nanterre and the planned expulsion of a number of Nanterre students, Sorbonne University students took to the streets en masse.

The students, teachers and supporters were also fed up with France’s outdated educational system and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.

Over a period of several days, hundreds of students battled it out with police in Paris’s Latin Quarter, setting up barricades, throwing rocks and braving tear gas. Discontentment with the political and economic conditions in France boiled to the surface, and what started out as a few student protests escalated into a month and a half of utter chaos, during which several people died and hundreds were injured.

Twenty-two percent of the entire working population went on strike, demanding concessions for their working conditions and bringing the capitalist government to the verge of collapse.

Despite the injuries and bloodshed, the strikes led to a major educational reform bill, better working conditions and higher wages for workers.

France in 1968 might be Nigeria before the end of this administration.

Imagine my boss telling CSO to buy handcuffs for staff

Destined2win:
Sometimes, massive protest is what the government understands

unless ,you plan protest well,innocent lives will be lost,and any loss of life is unacceptable....be wise!!

IPOB protest in Onitsha head bridge should make this list

Explorers:
2. France Labour And Students Protest. May, 1968.


On May 3, 1968, a student protest at the Sorbonne University nearly sparked a revolution. Protesting against the closure of the University of Paris at Nanterre and the planned expulsion of a number of Nanterre students, Sorbonne University students took to the streets en masse.

The students, teachers and supporters were also fed up with France’s outdated educational system and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.

Over a period of several days, hundreds of students battled it out with police in Paris’s Latin Quarter, setting up barricades, throwing rocks and braving tear gas. Discontentment with the political and economic conditions in France boiled to the surface, and what started out as a few student protests escalated into a month and a half of utter chaos, during which several people died and hundreds were injured.

Twenty-two percent of the entire working population went on strike, demanding concessions for their working conditions and bringing the capitalist government to the verge of collapse.

Despite the injuries and bloodshed, the strikes led to a major educational reform bill, better working conditions and higher wages for workers.

this is exactly the case with nigeria, so so perfectly comparable, but i doubt if we can have the protest here anytime soon, although, it will definitely happen someday

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France and Nigeria have always had almost the same political/economic problems. They fought for revolution after years of poverty, hunger, deprivation, Religious subjugation by corrupt elites and corruption.

The film "Le Miserables" comes to mind




"Do You Hear The People Sing?"

[Enjolras:]
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

[Combeferre:]
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

[Courfeyrac:]
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

[All:]
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

[Feuilly:]
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France! Biafra

[All:]
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes

4. Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico, 1968.

Global unrest was rampant in 1968.

October 2, 1968 was a tragic day for Mexico. The country was gearing up to host the 1968 Summer Olympics, and protestors, most of them students,had been using the months leading up to the games to attract the world’s attention to their repressive government.

Their demands included the sacking of the police chief, independence for universities and the freeing of political prisoners.

As many as 10,000 students gathered in Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco district for another day of planned peaceful protest. And although the rally was initially peaceful, the government immediately stationed military vehicles in the plaza.

Flares were fired into the sky and troops began to fire on the crowd. They may have even employed snipers to shoot the unarmed students and civilians below, at least 44 of whom were killed although some estimates range between 200 and 300.

It’s believed that as many as 1,345 people were arrested. People fled into nearby houses and apartments, but the military searched house by house for survivors. Tragically, not all of the victims of the massacre were even protestors. A lot of people were just passing through, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

babyfaceafrica:
unless ,you plan protest well,innocent lives will be lost,and any loss of life is unacceptable....be wise!!

in any protest, revolution, lives will be lost. That should be expected. It doesn't matter if the protest was planned well or otherwise, one thing you can't discount is that lives will be lost or people injured.

Go through the history of protest and see for yourself, despite how well planned it might have been, atleast a life was lost.

And most times, when a life is lost, it tends to propel the protesters onward till they achieve their aim.

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Most of the rioters are students who fought for sound education. Died for what they believed in and reshape their country's policies on matters that affects them. In Nigeria, what do we have? Students who rape other students, politicians who fiyck other students and government who turn blind eyes to injustices melted out on students.


COWARDS!

Nnamdi kanu should spend more agonising time in jail for calling Nigeria a "Zoo".He sugar coated his tongue before saying that.

Here to stay

Kockane:
This Post reminds me of when I led the most violent student demonstration back in my secondary school, May 2005. I single handedly broke 17 windows and embezzled 14 pots of jollof rice from the school kitchen. In saner climes, this would go down in history as one of the greatest examples of man's tenacity and grit in the face of oppression. Unfortunately, the Nigerian government has succeeded in covering it up as if it never happened.

It took the cia and mossad a lot to cover up your fight again at injustice.

The I.g then said it's a lie that only 4 pots of rice were missing and 2 Windows broken.

Aluta continua

if any of the Biafra protest does not make this list then the list is fake.

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