One group, all women by the sound of them, were chanting, "Hang him!

"We have been orphaned, our father is dead," one group of women chanted.

I asked one day while we were watching several groups of Phain make their cadenced and chanted way along a road.

"We are against sectarianism," a group of people chanted as they marched toward the memorial ceremony.

Within weeks the group, joined by the state teachers' association, was chanting "recall" outside the Governor's mansion.

"We love Jesus, how about you," chanted a group in one corner, inciting a competitive echo from across the room.

Further back, groups of demonstrators chanted, "The whole world is watching!"

Outside, a group of about 200 chanted, "No justice, no peace."

In a foggy double image, another small group chanted the same thing, as if answering, on the other side of the smoke.

The two groups, separated by riot police, chanted rival slogans.