Posted on 02/21/2011 6:47:28 AM PST by EBH
Five burned bodies were found in a bank set ablaze in a north Moroccan town in unrest that erupted after weekend demonstrations for change, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui said Monday.
The minister also announced that 128 people, including 115 members of the security forces, were wounded in violence in several towns following largely peaceful demonstrations Sunday to demand political reform.
"The burned bodies of five people were recovered inside one of the bank branches set alight by rioters in the city of Al Hoceima," he told reporters.
They had not yet been identified. Violence broke out in the northern town, and other areas, after thousands of people staged rallies demanding political reform and limits on the powers of King Mohammed VI.
Witnesses said police used tear gas against protesters in Al Hoceima Sunday after they set fire to five cars and threw stones at a police station following the demonstration.
The Morocco protests followed others across the region demanding change.
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This is very dangerous. Morocco is a hotbed of terrorism, which is only repressed by the fact that it was in Mohammed’s interests to do so. Mohammed is no better and no worse than other ME leaders, but he has limited himself mostly to blustering and depicting Spanish territories (Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Canary Island!) in Moroccan colors on his maps. But the group that wants to take over there is no friend of “democracy” or the West in general.
Lots of history in the making ....
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