Editorial Comment: Oh Lord, not again!

ANOTHER significant fuel hike inside three months cannot be regarded as normal for any economy. In January, fuel prices shot up 150%, triggering spontaneous countrywide protests that left 17 dead when security services ruthlessly suppressed the demonstrations, with hundreds left nursing bullet wounds.

Although the new fuel price increases are at just about 50% for both petrol and diesel, and may not activate violent protests, they can in no way be dismissed as insignificant.

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