1.   When the pyramids began to collapse, crowds rioted throughout the small country and opposition activists demanded that the government step down.

2.   Almost all the victims are opposition activists.

3.   A congressional committee that oversees energy production called the sale unconstitutional, and opposition activist Manuel Lopez Obrador last week called for taking the case to the Supreme Court.

4.   After the election, hundreds of opposition activists were threatened and fled their villages.

5.   Gangs of his thugs roam the countryside, killing and beating opposition activists.

6.   Government forces continue to kill opposition activists.

7.   It is dispatching observers to Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas, where reports of killings and intimidation of opposition political activists are common.

8.   Opposition activists also complain that the PRI used resources of the PRI government.

9.   Several hundred Iranian opposition activists demonstrated as the meeting got under way, banging drums and calling for the full rupture of diplomatic ties with Iran.

10.   Some opposition activists, however, point out that the pro-PRI polls proved wrong six years ago and claim it was the PRI that needed emergency help.