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• n  a state of disorder involving group violence
• v  take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
  Students were rioting everywhere in 1968
• v  engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

• As the rioting spread, exaggerated reports of black snipers prompted the intervention of the National Guard.
• Concern is rising that rioting may spread across the nation as it did in 2005 if it manages to ignite resentment bottled up in other areas of the country.
• That echoed a comment a year earlier by philosopher Alain Finkelkraut, who seeking to explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended from immigrants in France's suburbs made .

• riot
• carouse
• roister

News & Articles

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• Myanmar jails man for attack that sparked rioting
  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in Myanmar's northeast has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, a local politician said.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Myanmar Jails Man Whose Attack Sparked Rioting
  Myanmar court sentences Muslim man to 26 years for assault that triggered Buddhist rioting        
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News
• Myanmar jails man whose attack sparked rioting - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A court in Myanmar has given a 26-year jail sentence to a Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in the country's northeast.
  June 12, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Philadelphia Inquirer
  Khamenei, responding to a week of protests of the disputed election on June 12, said opposition leaders "will be held accountable for all the violence, bloodshed and rioting" if they do not halt the rallies.
• Michel Platini in Reuters.uk
  Following the death of a Paris Saint-Germain FC supporter last year and the rioting of Feyenoord fans in Nancy, this latest episode further deepens our concern about violence creeping back into the game,Platini said. "We must now work...
• John Howard in Forbes
  The request for troops came "as a result of some serious rioting which has left 80 percent of the central business district of the capital destroyed," Howard said.