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Sep 18, 2016

TRUCKS BLOCKED * Syria: With food help to Aleppo

* Syria - Assad regime blocks Aleppo aid trucks

--- A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revealed that the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has blocked the passage of 40 aid trucks heading for the besieged city of Aleppo, Anadolu reported on Friday... Jens Laerke told a press conference in Geneva. He told journalists to ask the Syrian regime why it refuses to allow the humanitarian convoy to enter Aleppo, noting that there are about 250,000 people in the eastern part of the city who are in urgent need of aid... According to news reports, two aid convoys, each of around 20 trucks and carrying mostly food and flour, crossed into Syria from the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu, about 40 km west of Aleppo, on Tuesday. However, they made little progress beyond the border... UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura described it as “regrettable” that Damascus has yet to provide the necessary permits... 
Aleppo, Syria - MEMO - September 17, 2016

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Feb 22, 2016

ROADS BLOCKADE & DRIVER PROTESTS * India: Farmers protest at Haryana

(Viideo by IndianExpressOnline - Published on Feb 21, 2016 - The Jat agitation may end soon as the government on Sunday decided to bring a bill for granting OBC status to Jats. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting between Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Jat leaders, National security Advisor, Army Chief and Delhi Police Commissioner. After the meeting, BJP) 

 -- The Jat quota agitation in neighbouring Haryana spilled over into Delhi Saturday as protesters blocked several roads in Outer Delhi and said their demands should “reach Parliament”. The protests caused traffic snarls at Peerhagarhi chowk, Nangloi, Mundka, Bawana, Narela, Kingsway Camp and North Campus... Jat (a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India) quota agitation shuts down parts of Gurgaon; commuters, trucks stranded in areas bordering Haryana. Trucks carrying protesters trundled up and down roads along the Delhi-Haryana border in Mundka while other roads were blocked with concrete slabs taken from under-construction Metro sites... Protest following an assurance by state government that it would consider the "principle of equity" in deciding the quantum of compensation to them for the land acquired for the Kaithal-Titram bypass... “Dalits get jobs… they become doctors, magistrates and lawyers. But our children, despite securing high marks, never get jobs. This is only the beginning of our agitati... Tomorrow, we are calling for a bandh in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh,” said Wazirlal, a driver who participated in the protest... A team of 150 policemen was deployed across Mundka, Nangloi and neighbouring areas. As the Jat quota agitation spread to parts of Delhi, the top brass of the city’s police force cancelled all leaves, citing security reasons... 
Gurgaon, India - The Indian Express, by Sarah Hafeez - February 21, 2016

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Aug 5, 2008

Highway Blockade * India - Kashmir short of essentials after that

Srinagar,Kshmir,India -Reuters, by Sheikh Mushtaq -Aug 5, 2008: -- India's Muslim-majority Kashmir valley was running short of food, fuel and medical supplies after Hindu protesters blocked traffic on Tuesday on the main highway during protests that have killed two policemen... Hindus in Kashmir's winter capital of Jammu, protesting against the state government for backing down on transferring forest land to a Hindu shrine trust, have attacked lorries carrying essential supplies to the Kashmir valley... Trader associations said lorries loaded with vital goods like medicines, vegetables, meat and fuel were stranded on the region's main 300-km (185 mile) highway, the only surface link between the Kashmir valley and the rest of India... The controversy over the issue of land for a Hindu trust has polarised Indian Kashmir, split between the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley and the Hindu-dominated region around Jammu...

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Mar 27, 2007

Fury mounts * UK - After trucks block A14

Felixstowe,England,UK -The Suffolk Evening Star (Ipswich,England,UK), by RICHARD CORNWELL -23 March 2007: -- High winds which close Felixstowe port have a knock-on effect which stretches far beyond its boundaries - causing chaos for residents and turning the A14 into a giant lorry and car park... Emergency services could find themselves stuck miles from the scene of a major incident in Felixstowe if the port was closed - because of lorries gridlocking the A14... That was the fear voiced today in the wake of the latest failing of the Operation Stack system used to deal with trucks when high winds force Britain's biggest container terminal to close for safety reasons... How Operation Stack works... When high winds close the port, parking areas inside the complex are used first - providing space for hundreds of trucks... Chaos caused by Operation Stack has left residents furious...

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