But based on publicly available information, there is nothing for people to be up in arms about.

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"If India continues to go soft on Bangladesh, the time might come when border villagers in the region would be forced to take up arms and go underground to defend themselves, " Manik Syiem, a resident of the Indian border state of Meghalaya, said.

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It occurred to him that it would be easy to break the window with his fist and deliberately cut up the veins in his arms.

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If you looked at the number of people affected by domestic violence and applied it to other tragic circumstances like terrorism or gang violence, our country would be up in arms and it would be the front page story every single day.

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So it could all be kicked off if Sadr fighters decide to really take up arms and start battling in the way that they used to.

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Since the mainly African Muslim rebels took up arms in 2003, in protest against what they felt to be years of discrimination and neglect at the hands of the Arab Muslims in Khartoum, as many as 300, 000 civilians have been killed and a further 2m or more forced to flee their homes.

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Privacy advocates were up in arms when Twitter revealed that it would be selling two years of archived tweets to UK-based Datasift to, well, sift through, reports the Mail Online.

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Many politicians are up in arms, believing that the "public interest" should be whatever they want it to be.

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