October Crisis: [Taken directly from Wikipedia]
The
October Crisis was a series of dramatic events triggered by two
terrorist kidnappings of government officials by members of the
Front de libération du Québec in the province of
Quebec,
Canada, in October 1970, which ultimately resulted in a brief invocation of the
War Measures Act by
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and the deployment of the national army in Quebec and in the national capital
Ottawa.
The
Premier of Quebec,
Robert Bourassa, and the
Mayor of Montreal,
Jean Drapeau, requested that the
Government of Canada invoke the
War Measures Act. The act provided for far-reaching powers for
police. Therefore, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked it in October of 1970 leading to arrests of any individuals the police thought to be separatists, and to their detentions without bail.
At that time, the federal government refused to differentiate the members of the FLQ, extremist separatists, and those of the PQ who advocated democratic ways of achieving independence.
[1] Following that crisis, under Prime Minister Trudeau's directions, this led to a series of
scandals surrounding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, particularly to the RCMP's illegal break-in to steal the
Parti Québécois's member list in its offices in 1973.
[2]
- The act provided for far-reaching powers for
police.
- "...leading to arrests of any individuals the police thought to be separatists, and to their detentions without bail."
Yeah, you get the point.
Oh I forgot to mention, military was dispatched too. No people died - but the violence was hardly a match for Tibetan rioters.