MONGOLIA-VOTE-PROTEST-PARLIAMENT

Members of the state special security unit guard in front of the legendary Mongol leader Genghis Khan statue near the burned-out headquarters of the ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party in Ulan Bator on July 5, 2008, after the deadly riots on July 1. Mongolia’s leading politicians briefly set aside their differences on July 4 and signed a joint declaration urging the nation against any repeat of this week’s deadly election violence as the violence on July 1 has become recognised as a particularly dark moment in Mongolia’s recent history, as the nation shook off seven decades of communist rule in 1990 without a shot being fired. AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon