#OtD 10 Jan 2003 students in Bangui, Central African Republic, battled police in the streets in protest at non-payment of scholarship grants by the government. Students started fires and stoned cars while police and soldiers fired tear gas and gunshots https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7721/bangui-student-protests
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@workingclasshistory The Jan 2003 student riots signaled the death knell for Patassé’s regime. Unpaid scholarships exposed a state in total bankruptcy. This volatility in Bangui primed the landscape for General Bozizé’s coup two months later. A historical axiom: when a government abandons its youth, its collapse is imminent. #CAR #Bangui #History https://epocinfo.fr