Twice in the last two years soldiers have rioted, killing hundreds of unarmed civilians.

The disgruntled soldiers rioted.

The current crisis began early this month when soldiers rioted after being paid in new high-denomination bank notes that were issued by the President but outlawed by Mr. Tshisekedi and rejected by traders.

Six months ago Zaire seemed on the brink of political chaos as mutinous soldiers rioted and the 26-year autocratic rule of President Mobutu Sese Seko began to crumble.

On February 8, 1917, after the unit was formally re-formed, soldiers from the former battalion rioted in Calgary after being ordered to depart immediately for Europe.

An Earlier Riot In a similar episode three weeks ago, soldiers rioted after being paid in the new notes, closing Kinshasa's airport and the port on the Congo River and looting stores and houses.

He was dismissed as minister on 12 May 2007 after soldiers rioted concerning better working conditions and the re-instatement of sacked military leaders.

In December 1999, there was a military coup, begun after soldiers rioted for back pay.

In 1919 Whiteley prosecuted in the case of the Epsom Riot, when about four hundred Canadian soldiers rioted and attacked the police station at Epsom on June 17, 1919.

Clark also recorded that in Egypt some soldiers burned the belongings of local people, brawled, got drunk and rioted, and spent sufficient time in the local brothels for many of them to contract venereal disease.