Demonstration!

The demonstration was due to take place in the morning. The message: No more price hikes! You see, the government just raised the price of gasoline and something else - for got what. But gasoline is still a basic need in today's world. A price increase in that one item leads to a price increase in just about everything in our lives. So people are pissed off.

We heard the demonstration outside our offices at about 2pm. We heard a bunch of people shouting "No more price hikes!" Then I saw about 50 to 100 people - hardly a demonstration! But I was later told that the bulk of them were still on their way.

Before they could make their way to the center (where we were) the police came in and broke them off by shooting cannisters of tear gas. We even got a good whiff of it in our office! Sure enough everyone started running off in a different direction. The police stayed there and blocked off the area. That was the worst thing that could happen to me because I had just ordered my pizza for lunch, just to get a call an hour later saying the delivery guy couldn't make it to our office. I was so hungry I could have called up the interior minister just for that! But I didn't.

Here's a pic of the demonstration before it was broken off. And yes, that is the view from our office!! We are in one of the tallest buildings in the center of town. There are no other buildings that go as high as all 10 of our floors. But the offices deserve a post of their own. They are quite something.