violence
Seven massacred in Tokyo - are the Japanese prone to ultra-violence?
Japan saw the ghastly murder of seven people yesterday when a man drove his two-tonne-lorry into crossing pedestrians and then went on a stabbing spree in Akihabara, Tokyo. Our Observer in the country questions whether the Japanese are prone to such gruesome massacres, and why. Read more...
"Black on black racism at the height of stupidity"
Forty-two people have been killed since the outbreak of violent clashes between native South Africans and Zimbabwean refugees in Johannesburg. A Zimbabwean immigrant tries to explain this sudden attack on his community. Read more...
An end to getting slapped in the face for the Lebanese?
As dawn broke today, five days of talks between Lebanon's leading politicians on the country's internal conflict crisis finally came to a head, just in time to stop the country from sliding into civil war. Our Observers in the country explain why it's not easy to celebrate. Read more...
Ultra violent video clip set in the Parisian suburbs
"We've hardly got any photos of the repression"
Photos of the chaos in Lhasa are finding their way to us slowly. We asked a young Tibetan activist to explain how the Chinese government manages to restrict information from leaving the country. See the photos and read her account.
UPDATE (13 March 7.30pm): We published the first amateur images of events on the Observers site. Press agencies have now distributed new photos of the events, finally managing to get their documents out of the country.
Kenyan web users gang together on ‘Google Maps’
Text messages played an important part in the Kenya protests at the end of last month. Now, Kenyan bloggers have found a new way to circulate information about the riots, rapes and murders that tear through their country. Our Observer Daudi Were, one of the project organisers, explains to us how it works. Read more...
