The trouble began when gangs began breaking windows and looting shops.

骚乱起始时，歹徒们就开始砸橱窗、抢商店。

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Looting shops and setting them on fire derive from the same impulsion and gratify the same longing.

洗劫商店和纵火源自同样的冲动并满足了同样的渴望。

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Groups of people began attacking officers, wrecking cars with wooden poles and metal bars, and looting shops.

BBC: UK riots: Trouble erupts in English cities

On Monday afternoon large gangs roamed Peckham and Hackney in east London, looting shops, attacking buses and setting cars and shops alight.

CNN: Q&A: What sparked the London riots?

But now they have begun to rampage through towns as well, smashing windows, looting shops, destroying homes and terrorising the locals, while Mr Mugabe's police stand idly by.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe