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| Truncheon-wielding police break up Ukraine pro-EU rally |
| 2013-12-01 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Ukraine police swinging truncheons early Saturday brutally dispersed protesters calling for President Viktor Yanukovych to resign after he refused to salvage an EU deal. A rally of some 10,000 protesters led by top opposition leaders like world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko had late Friday called for the president to step down after he left an EU summit in Vilnius without signing a key political and free trade deal. The agreement would have brought ex-Soviet Ukraine closer to the bloc and away from historical master Moscow, which put pressure on the ex-Soviet republic still reliant on Russia for energy and as an export market, to turn its back on the accord. The scrapping of the EU deal years in the making has sparked the biggest protests in Ukraine since the 2004 pro-West Orange Revolution. Following Friday's rally at Kiev's Independence Square, the epicentre of the peaceful "orange" revolt, around 1,000 protesters remained overnight and riot police moved in around 4:00 local time, swinging batons and pushing protesters, according to witnesses. "The Maidan has been brutally mopped up," opposition politician Andriy Shevchenko said on Twitter, using the square's informal name. "Dozens maimed, dozens tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! . Ukraine has not seen anything like this before." On Saturday morning police and metal barriers surrounded the square strewn with discarded warm clothes, plastic bottles and plates. The stage from which opposition leaders addressed their supporters had been taken down and two tractors could be seen hauling away pro-EU placards, blankets and metal barrels which protesters used for makeshift fires to keep themselves warm. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 LOL |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-12-01 12:05 |
| #1 two tractors could be seen hauling away pro-EU placards >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Garoom, garoom, putt, putt, putt, putt. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-01 07:56 |