10 Shortly before a planned
rally outside a courthouse in
Lahore to protest the dismissal
of Pakistani Chief
Justice Iftikhar Mohammed
Chaudhry, a suicide bomber
sets off an explosion that
kills at least 23 people, nearly
all police officers.
13 Jackie Selebi
resigns as president
of Interpol
the day after he was put on
leave as head of South
Africa’s police because of the
possibility that he will be
charged with corruption.
17 A three-hour gun
battle between
drug cartel members
and government forces
takes place in Tijuana, Mex., where two days earlier a
police commander and his
family had been killed.
23 In Mosul, Iraq, a house used
by insurgents, possibly as a
bomb factory, explodes as
police approach; at least 34
people are killed, most of
them crushed to death in
neighboring buildings that
collapse from the force of
the explosion.
31 David Kimutai
Too, an opposition
lawmaker, is
shot to death by a policeman
in Eldoret, Kenya; though
government officials say the
killing was not politically
motivated, violence throughout
the country intensifies in
response to the murder.
February
17 A suicide bomber detonates
his weapon at a dog fighting
match outside Kandahar,
Afg., killing at least 80 people,
including a prominent
anti-Taliban police chief.
March
April
6 At the Olympic torch
relay in London, pro-Tibet protesters
attempting to seize or extinguish
the torch to express
their opposition to Chinese
human rights abuses are
engaged in a series of scuffles
with police and prevented
from achieving their
goal.
13 The Iraqi government says
that it has dismissed some
1,300 soldiers and policemen
who deserted or otherwise
laid down their arms in the
operation in March against
the Mahdi Army in Basra.
25 Police in
Harare, Zimb.,
raid the headquarters
of the opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change, arresting scores of
people, and another raid targets
the independent election
monitoring organization
Zimbabwe Election
Support Network.
May
8 Edgar Millán Gómez, the
acting chief of federal police
in Mexico, is ambushed and
killed by several men outside
his home in Mexico
City.
17 Trucks carrying men firing
rifles roll into Villa
Ahumada, Mex.; 6 people
are killed, including the
chief of police, and 10 others
are kidnapped, prompting
the entire surviving police
force to flee
June
4 Police in Bangladesh
say that they have
arrested more than
11,700 people in recent days
in a new anticrime drive.
29 As protests against possible
South Korean imports of
U.S. beef continue, they
begin to turn violent, and
police in Seoul block off
areas where demonstrations
most frequently take place.
July
5 An altercation takes
place in a prison outside
Damascus in
which military police kill at
least nine Islamist inmates
and other military police
and prison officials are
taken hostage.
