It seems rare enough that unarmed demonstrators are fired upon by police/national guard/soldiers. And it is frequent that there are agents provocateurs. It is also common for governments to bring in rural/poor/less educated militia members from distant provinces or different ethnic groups. The conscript Army in Egypt in Jan/Feb could not be reliably counted upon to fire upon demonstrators.
Clubbed, yes; fired upon, rare enough so that I could name a few prominent ones:
* The Greensboro demonstrators were shot by the Klan, but acquitted. The subsequent rift led to a Truth and Reconciliation process.
**Nothing more after this**
Clubbed, yes; fired upon, rare enough so that I could name a few prominent ones:
- Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England 1819 Short Documentary, 2010
- Bloody Sunday, St. Petersburg, 1905 Hollywood, 1971
- Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh), India, April 13, 1919 from Gandhi, 1982
- Bloody Sunday, Dublin, Ireland 1920 from Michael Collins, 1996
- Ludlow Massacre, Ludlow, Colorado, 1914 from Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train, 1996
- Everett Massacre, Everett, Washington, USA 1916
- Sharpeville, South Africa 1960 from 2010 newscast or this
- Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, SC, USA 1968
- Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City, Mexico; October 2, 1968 footage
- Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, USA May 4th, 1970 eyewitness account & these
- Jackson State Shootings, Jackson, Missisippi, USA 1970 Democracy Now clip from Howard Zinn's last interview
- Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972 docudrama trailer, 2002
- Black Friday, Tehran, Iran, Sept. 8, 1978
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, North Carolina 1979*
- Tianamen Square Massacre, Peking, China 1989
- Devil's Curve, Bagua, Peru, 2009
- Teheran, Iran, ~ June 2009
- Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Jan/Feb 2011
- Lulu Square, Bahrain, Feb. 18, 2011
* The Greensboro demonstrators were shot by the Klan, but acquitted. The subsequent rift led to a Truth and Reconciliation process.
**Nothing more after this**
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Massacre of Mueda, Mozambique
On 16 June 1960, Makonde nationalists organized a demonstration in front of the Mueda District headquarters on the Mueda town square demanding independence from Portugal, apparently the district administrator had invited them to present their grievances. The administrator ordered the leaders arrested, and the crowd protested.
The Portuguese administrator ordered his pre-assembled troops to fire on the crowd, and then many more were thrown to their death into a ravine. The number of dead is in dispute.
However, resentment generated by these events led ultimately to independentist guerrilla FRELIMO gaining needed momentum in the outset of the Mozambican War of Independence (1964–1975).[6]The site of the massacre is marked by a commemorative statue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueda#Massacre_of_Mueda
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