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/^t/Next, massive unemployment, unprecedented during the socialist regime, has also sparked off the upsurge in violence. Having lost their jobs, many people have got severely disappointed as they now verge on poverty, live from hand to mouth, and are forced to resort to social charity in order to survive. Those people are often of low education; consequently, they stand a very slight chance of finding a job, let alone a profitable one. Therefore, they often choose crime and violence as the only possible way to get some means for living.