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    The Vaasa riot took place on 4 June 1930 in Vaasa, Finland. The riot unfolded with a violent attack by radical members of the right wing Lapua Movement...
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    Agrarian League. The Lapua Movement would have a show of power during the Vaasa riot and Peasant March. Onni Happonen, a social-democratic would be arrested...
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    one of the most important of the Revolutions of 1989. On 17 November 1989, riot police suppressed a peaceful student demonstration in Prague. That event...
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    Yrjö Nikula, were charged. The trial, which was held in Vaasa two months later, turned into a riot. After the judge called an intermission and people were...
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  • right-wing Lapua Movement assault a former Red Guard officer and the publisher of the communist newspaper at the Vaasa riot on June 4, 1930, in Vaasa, Finland....
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    Tamils came in the form of island wide ethnic riots, including The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and the Black July riots. Further persecution through murders, targeted...
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    their demands following the show of power during the Peasant March and Vaasa riot. During the Cold War, all partied deemed fascist were banned according...
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    White Army organized in Vaasa managed to disarm thousands of Russian soldiers (with Bolshevik sympathies) in Seinäjoki and Vaasa on January 26 and 27. By...
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  • Finnish War Battle of Nykarleby 24 June Sweden defeats Russia Battle of Vaasa 25–26 June Russia defeats Sweden Peninsular War Battle of Valencia 26–28...
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    strike at the strongest White strongholds as well as the White capital of Vaasa. However, the offensives failed and the front line remained in the same...
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