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Giving thugs a bad name?

Robert Basler

Oct 11, 2010 16:03 UTC

Gay rights march in Belgrade triggers violent riots

BELGRADE (Reuters) – A gay rights parade in Belgrade erupted in violence on Sunday as thousands of police deployed to protect marchers clashed with anti-gay protesters, who rioted and attacked the headquarters of the ruling parties.

Pushed back from the parade area by 5,000 police in riot gear, protesters turned to other targets, breaking into the lobby of the state television network, scaling scaffolding to try to enter parliament, smashing windows at the Austrian embassy and burning a car in front of the French embassy.

Gangs of tough-looking youths threw stones, crowbars, wooden planks, bottles and other objects at police, smashed windows of cars and buses and looted several central shops including that of Italian retailer Benetton. Some sang nationalist songs.

This is one poor piece of journalism.

You try to make the protesters look like a bunch of backwards idiots with clever wording. I wish they would not destroy property and injure the police, but they are sick of their own government making life for the sodomites like a cakewalk.