Things were getting desperate, and a regional farmers' union had proposed a 20-day strike in which farmers would block all traffic on the main highway.

As the army began attacking Hutu peasants, the farmers blocked roads with trees to defend their territory and began attacking Tutsis.

But this week more than 450 farmers across Italy blocked roads with tractors to protest a Government plan to shift the cost to the farmers.

At numerous points along the Rhone Valley, farmers blocked the railroad tracks by burning tires or building barricades of boxes and small containers.

In June of that year, as 3,000 cattle were trailed through western Missouri, local farmers blocked their passage and forced the drovers to turn back.

Outside of EuroDisney, on the road the farmers block to hold up the prices of Europroduce, is the Hotel Real Desert.

Several thousand farmers in northern Cantabria blocked roads with tractors to protest European Community milk quotas.

Two years ago, he organized demonstrations in which some 20,000 farmers blocked roads to demand price supports and subsidies, a campaign that ended in his prosecution.

Last Saturday, 200 farmers blocked the center of the historic Rhone River city of Avignon with 2,500 shopping carts to protest falling prices.

Today, about 2,000 French farmers blocked highways to protest the community's proposal.