State sponsored repression has been going on for the past two years , Marc Owen Jones writes . The prospects for pro-democracy movement are bleak , especially without Western support , he says . Skirmishes in villages between groups of youths and the riot police occur almost daily , and while the former burn tires and throw Molotov cocktails , the latter fumigate the villages with tear gas , a tactic Comment:
State sponsored repression has been going on for the past two years , Marc Owen Jones writes . The prospects for pro-democracy movement are bleak , especially without Western support , he says . Comment: