Youth Unrest Quotes
In a sense he was the first establishment victim of the student demonstrations of 1968. He called the police to eject the student demonstrators from the buildings they were occupying.
Muslims had engaged in violent demonstrations to insist on more Sharia law and the curtailment of behavior that the Muslim Mullahs determined to be contrary to Sharia and Islam. In Nigeria Muslim violence and intimidation had at the time already caused one of the Nigerian states to adopt Sharia instead of civil law. Many Muslims continued the violence in order to spread the adoption of Islamic law. In most counties, there were threats of law enforcement crackdowns to curtail the Muslim violence and attacks on Christians and other religions. In Nigeria however, the Christians under Akinola’s leadership made this not so subtle veiled threat to retaliate. It seems to have worked in the short run although the religious tensions remained very high and no one knew whether or not religious violence or even war would break out.
In virtually every society the 15-35 year old males cause the majority of the crime—especially the crimes of violence. Where there is little or no opportunity for them, they are very susceptible to being recruited into gangs, terrorist cells, extremist cults and the like.
Description of one of the problems of Cambodia in the 1960s.
