Civil Unrest – Civil Violence – Countries Becoming Divided

Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Mark 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Luke 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Jesus indicated that one (of many) signs of the end times or the end of the age grace would be that love for one another would grow cold. Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” This can be interpreted that lawlessness and violence shall abound, including at the civil level.

Civil Violence Lawlessness Unrest: Tens of Thousands join anti-government protests in Romania. “We want a government that works for us, not in its own interests.”

AFP•August 10, 2019

Bucharest (AFP) – Thousands of people rallied in Bucharest on Saturday calling for the government’s resignation, exactly one year after a demonstration was violently suppressed by security forces.

According to the Romanian news agency Agerpres, an estimated 24,000 protesters gathered outside the government’s headquarters in the capital, waving the national flag and shouting “Thieves!” and “Resign!”.

“The country is going in the wrong direction. There’s no future for young people,” 19-year-old medical student Bogdan Iliescu told AFP.

“We want a government that works for us, not in its own interests,” he said.

Another demonstrator, 60-year-old Lenuta Iancu, said she had come to protest against “the daily injustices” such as widespread political corruption and a dilapidated healthcare system.

Both had been among some 80,000 people dispersed by tear gas, water cannons and rubber batons at a peaceful rally at the same site on August 10, 2018.

More than 450 people were hurt and 700 filed complaints against the security forces. But a year on, the investigations against police chiefs have stalled.

Romania’s centre-right president Klaus Iohannis — who regularly clashes with the Social Democrat government of Prime Minister Viorica Dancila — has described last year’s events as a “tragedy” and urged police not to resort to force this time round.

The demonstrators on Saturday also paid tribute to two teenage girls, Alexandra and Luiza, whose killings shocked the country and sparked street protests.

A suspect from the southern town of Caracal has confessed to the separate kidnappings and murders of the girls.

Authorities came under fire after it emerged that one of the girls, aged 15, made three calls to emergency services to report her own kidnapping but that the police failed to react in time.

Several top officials including police chief Ioan Buda and interior minister Nicolae Moga have been sacked over the affair.