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After police came under gun and petrol-bomb attack during two days of rioting, he said the episodes were a symptom of a section of the nationalist community refusing to accept the PSNI.
BBC investigative journalism Not a sheep 2009
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Or perhaps we do not need to worry about it because, after they have stopped killing people in the tracked vehicle, the crowd will ensure that the situation is sufficiently in hand to petrol-bomb the living daylights out of it.
The great debate Richard 2006
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He is alleged to have thrown a petrol-bomb at the home of a police constable before proceeding to attack the home of a ruling
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There have been at least nine petrol-bomb attacks over the past two weeks.
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Swazi police have arrested two more opposition activists and charged them with treason over a spate of petrol-bomb attacks against courthouses and police late last year, an opposition spokesman said Wednesday.
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Earlier this month, police claimed to have discovered a petrol-bomb making factory at a homestead belonging to a Pudemo member in Nkwalini, outside Mbabane.
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A courthouse in Mbabane was damaged in the early hours on Friday in a petrol-bomb attack that followed another firebomb lobbed at the home of government spokesman Percy Simelane.
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Twelve opposition members in Swaziland have been charged with high treason and could face the death penalty in connection with a spate of petrol-bomb attacks in the small southern African kingdom,
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- Five people were hospitalised after being beaten in Nyanga, eastern Zimbabwe, among them a man and his eight-year-old daughter who were beaten with knobkerries after they ran out of their house when attackers threw a petrol-bomb inside;
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The former national youth organiser of the MDC was burned to death by a petrol-bomb during a spate of pre-election violence that has also claimed the lives of two white farmers and has plundged
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