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ug. 10, Online

Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London 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 next summer’s 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.

Your comments:

No matters how smart we are in explaining what has been going on in and around London, one thing is sure that the UK government has failed its people, in particular the youth.

What do you expect coming out from a society in which its youth are constantly monitored, searched, and harassed by the police?

Sometimes, they are senselessly shot at and later on the police invented stories that the victims carried weapons with criminal intent. What do you expect from a country that claimed itself as the champion of democracy but allowed its police forces to tap into our private conversations.

Stop preaching us about democracy, human rights, start tidying up your mess.

Bakunian
Guangzhou

Arab spring and the impetus for the riots in London may be the same, namely the failure of the government to deliver economic prosperity to “a minority” — i.e. the majority.

Jab
The Netherlands

It is a warning to the British government. Be careful. Please handle the riots in accordance with the existing norms, standards and international regulations on human rights.

Please don’t shoot the protesters indiscriminately for EU and NATO will bomb London, a city that I love so much.

If you so decide, please spare Buckingham Palace, for there is a newly-wed couple living there. It would be a pity if they died like those innocent people in Libya; they have nothing to do with the riot for sure.

Nairda
Singapore