It said: Close to 1,000 heavily armed members of the Bolivian security forces dispersed peaceful marchers with tear gas, beating them and confiscating their personal possessions.

The police in Washington arrested hundreds of peaceful marchers and closed down a demonstration headquarters during the World Bank meeting last year.

He appointed a judicial commission that condemned the police for killing peaceful marchers in Sebokeng.

"They were wielding machetes, stones, sticks, and they just charged at the peaceful marchers," said Brian Kagoro, the spokesman for the N.C.A., who witnessed the attacks.

We also tried to set in context the relatively small scale of the violent demonstration and to put across the views of the vast number of peaceful marchers.

He said that on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday troops had scattered peaceful marchers with birdshot and tear gas.

The peaceful marchers could not believe what was happening and once we controlled the burning from our eyes, many decided to fight back.

Hateful, jeering white mobs and attack dogs versus peaceful marchers asking to vote and to walk in the front door.

Later, when Birmingham police arrested thousands of peaceful marchers in 1963, Mr. Shores won the Supreme Court case that got those arrests declared unconstitutional.

But the George Wallace who sent troops to intimidate peaceful, orderly marchers in Selma in 1965 was not the same man who died this week.