21.   The queen, wearing a sapphire-blue floral frock, stopped near the campus gate to chat with spectators waving Union Jacks and Thai flags.

22.   They tried to push their way past the campus gates but were blocked by riot police with shields and helmets.

23.   Troops punched and kicked several students who refused to move from the shuttered campus gates.

24.   Women students, for example, wore burqas in the street, but shucked them off as soon as they entered the campus gates of the coeducational Balkh University.

25.   Hundreds of students wielded steel pipes as fellow protestors repeatedly charged through the campus gates and lobbed firebombs.