Name: Coronavirus crackdown: Are autocratic leaders using Covid-19 as an excuse for repression?
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T18:12:23.000Z
Duration: 5 min 20 s
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Lethal, contagious anxiety engulfing continent after continent Panicking the poor, this food stampede kabira slum No robing Last Friday.

Open season for heavy handed policing, tear gas and truncheons.

Quarantines, curfews, discrimination, hopefully riots in crowded jails in Pakistan, doctors and paramedics, alarmed about working without even basic protection, hit with patterns arrested for autocratic leaders.

Coronas presented a pretext to stifle dissent and consolidate power.

Civil liberties forfeited in the name of the greater good.

Even Kim Jong un's clamping down is, if that were possible in North Korea, his commanding the pandemic response there while still finding time to lose off a barrage of missiles this morning.

Xi Jinping demonstrated how it could be done.

Invasive surveillance at the cutting edge of his high tech authoritarian response drones.

Some 21st century strongmen shrugged it, first prioritizing their economies.

Trump initially called the virus a hoax, then blamed China before claiming total authority.

Yesterday, Brazil's Bolsa Naro branded the reaction as hysteria.

The Belarusian president dismissed global alarm as mass psychosis.

Others made audacious para grabs Hungary's parliament handed Prime Minister Viktor Orban power to rule by decree indefinitely.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Han Sen also granted sweeping emergency powers.

Dissenters face 10 Years in jail Protests against Vladimir Putin's latest para grab, stifled by Corona on the newly extended locked down in India, is proving handy for Narendra Modi.

Ending weeks of protest, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte granted special emergency powers, surprised no one when he issued a shoot to kill order to security forces faced with unruly curfew violators.

My orders are so police but the military but the mob a wrong guy, No lo car or no assurance loom Oben.

Shoot them dead Filipino reporters have covered the policing of Manila slums.

Now go with 19 now locked down labyrinths of scorer would deter today's deadly drugs.

Despite the outbreak, This'll man wasn't wearing a face mask and had a quarantine pass belonging to someone else.

In another slide 100 residents turned up what they thought would be a food distribution.

Instead, it turned into a hunger protest which was raided by police.

21 were arrested and face up to six months in prison.

Inmates in the Philippines Jampacked jails, the world's most overcrowded correctional system aren't tested for Corona virus.

They're a covert 19 time bomb on additional 26,000 people have now been arrested for curfew violations.

The situation has become increasingly authoritarian.

Before this Koran dividers came about and even more.

Now, under the public health emergency, you're going to see more protests from the people in.

I am afraid that the government would respond with its typical mindset off clamping down, and that can only be solved in more human rights violations and more depression.

Taking a cue from the president's dog whistle politics, his sadistic enforcers punished to Children who had violated curfew by forcing them into a coffin, and here five teenagers were locked into a dog cage.

This new architecture off repression hasn't gone global just yet, but the virus has lent legitimacy toe authoritarians.

 The age of intrusion is dawning where surveillance, data harvesting checkpoints and enforcement are deemed permissible and liberty's once taken for granted. 

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Coronavirus crackdown: Are autocratic leaders using Covid-19 as an excuse for repression?

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