ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Friday at hundreds of More than 100 protesters were taken away in military trucks. Another 100 were under armed guard on the street. At least one car was overturned and several others had windows smashed during the clashes in the capital's Merkato district, the main Muslim area of Addis Ababa.
The disturbances broke out after some houses and the half-built mosque were demolished because they had been illegally built on city administration-owned land, Federal Police Cmdr. Hailu Demsash said. "Muslim leaders were unhappy about the new site that was offered for the mosque," he told The Associated Press. "Some people in the community began to make
| It was the 143,298th holiest site in all Islam. Of course they had to riot. |