Hugh Shearer October 1968 when his government banned the historian, Walter Rodney from re-entering the country. On 16 October a series of riots, known as the Rodney Riots broke out, after peaceful protest by students from the University of the West Indies campus at Mona, was suppressed by police; rioting spreading throughout Kingston. Shearer stood by the ban claiming that Rodney was a danger to Jamaica, citing his socialist ties, trips to Cuba and the USSR, as well as his radical Black nationalism. Shearer was generally uncomfortable with notions of pan-Africanism or militant black nationalism. He was also insecure about the stability
Dhule riots Dhule riots The Dhule riots of 2008 were riots between the Hindu and Muslim community that took place in October 2008 in Dhule, Maharashtra. The communical riots erupted in October 2008 after tearing of posters posted by one of the Hindutva outfit called as Hindu Rakhshak Sabha in which had "provocative language and had branded the entire Muslim community as terrorists." Total 10 people feared to have been killed in the rioting as well as police firing. Hundreds of houses and shops mostly owned by the minority community have been looted and burned. There were riots again in January 2013.