Also, whereas Rwanda has looted systematically to pay for its war, Uganda has done so haphazardly.
State-owned TV and radio stations were attacked and shops belonging to Mr Ravalomanana looted.
What about the British museum returning all the treasures looted from India during the Raj?
Chilean police say small groups of masked protesters attacked a government building and looted shops.
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Board members have gotten flak for looking the other way as executives looted their companies.
He saw smoke coming from buildings and a petrol station that had been looted.
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Recall the ugly scene several years ago when anti-globalization protesters looted a Seattle Starbucks during a riot.
Lawlessness in the streets has prevented medical supplies reaching hospitals, and many have been looted and closed.
Riot police managed to stop that attack but smaller stores and kiosks in the suburb were looted.
Villagers looted stones to build their own houses, and the castle was subsequently abandoned for 150 years.
The tipping point was the disclosure that allies of Mugabe had looted a pension fund for war veterans.
The town's main hospital is closed, as medical workers have fled and medicines were looted by the rebels.
Shops at the Tabaka trading centre were looted as police, in four Land Rovers, tried to restore order.
An extra 1, 700 police officers were deployed in London, where shops were looted and buildings were set alight.
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Many Russians see the looted art as "compensation" for the millions of Russian lives lost during the Nazi invasion.
There was unrest in cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham, with shops being looted and set alight.
These are proceeds from what one historian calls "taxes, gifts from devotees, bribes and looted wealth of conquered states".
In one town, a mob looted stores and threw the goods onto the street before being dispersed by police.
Civil aviation officials were trying to reopen the airport and said looted air traffic control equipment would be returned.
Karma Samdrup, 42, was found guilty of grave-robbing and dealing in looted antiquities.
However the genuine items which have been looted are sold to agents and end up in Colombo or abroad.
The few businesspeople who work there have long been resigned to having their premises looted from time to time.
The banks are said to have handled even bigger sums in looted assets.
Furthermore, if looted work was identified in American museums it should be returned.
In April the French will report on art looted during the Nazi years.
This changed with the arrival in Paris of famous pictures looted from all over Europe by the armies of Napoleon.
Within about an hour, and with the store entirely looted, the crowd moved to another store half a block away.
The Nile-side luxury hotel, the Semiramis InterContinental, has been closed after masked men looted it early on Tuesday, terrifying guests.
In the two days of anarchy that followed South Africa's invasion last month, locals first looted, then burned the buildings.
Details of the three paintings had been circulated to specialist art databases in case they had been looted, the DCMS added.
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