Several carried sticks, but they were otherwise unarmed, and the state representative says nothing about actually being touched by anyone.
Paradoxically, then, the presence of the police made violent protest safe, limiting the damage an unarmed, ill-coordinated crowd could do.
Since violent acts were already illegal, the state of emergency was aimed primarily at curbing the unarmed resistance.
He awakens one morning to find an apparently unarmed trespasser on his front lawn.
Unarmed resistance and any sort of peaceful protest became the main targets of repression.
The radical difference between the active and armed struggle and passive or unarmed resistance has, of late, been resolved, but in a particular sense.
The governor is therefore forced to claim that the young men are unarmed and are merely aiding the police to catch criminals.
Meanwhile, the largely unarmed resistance and the repressive countermeasures against the movement prompted the non-violent resistance in the industrialised countries to force sanctions.
