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Medic: At least 70 protesters killed in Kiev
Yahoo News ^ | 20 Feb 2014 | YURAS KARMANAU

Posted on 02/20/2014 8:58:56 AM PST by mandaladon

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine's embattled capital. Government snipers shot back and the almost-medieval melee that ensued left at least 70 people dead and hundreds injured. Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes Thursday of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid. Trying to protect themselves with shields, teams of protesters carried bodies away on sheets of plastic or on planks of wood.

Protesters were also seen leading policemen with their hands held high around the sprawling protest camp in central Kiev. Ukraine's Interior ministry says 67 police were captured in all. It was not clear how they were taken. An opposition lawmaker said they were being held in Kiev's occupied city hall.

President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition protesters who demand his resignation are locked in an epic battle over the identity of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West. Parts of the country — mostly in its western cities — are in open revolt against Yanukovych's central government, while many in eastern Ukraine favor strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.

At least 99 people have died this week in the clashes in Kiev, a sharp reversal in three months of mostly peaceful protests. Now neither side appears willing to compromise, with the opposition insisting on Yanukovych's resignation and an early election and the president apparently prepared to fight until the end.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bho44; deathtoll; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: 1rudeboy

Well, there’s a little more to it than that . . .

They’ve been in the streets for months, peacefully.

Government goons have tried to disperse the protestors repeatedly, sometimes violently.

It’s a determined bunch. Do you know how cold it is there? They’ve been living outside in frigid conditions since November.

Those who aren’t in the streets are providing food and support. Not just once or twice, but continually.

When the government outlawed hard hats, Ukrainians donated colanders to the protestors. Yep, kitchen colanders.

Every hour they sing the Ukrainian national anthem. Every hour. “And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own. . . We’ll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom . . .”

Here’s a Youtube of the hourly anthem, from Tuesday. It gives me chills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ypE3G_pgE


61 posted on 02/20/2014 11:14:59 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: mac_truck

So you will side with the atheists and former communists should the political winds shift in an ugly direction?


62 posted on 02/20/2014 11:26:54 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Sacajaweau

No thanks. 400 years of being brutalized by Russia is enough.


63 posted on 02/20/2014 11:35:49 AM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: Jedidah

A real life “Do you hear the people sing?” moment.


64 posted on 02/20/2014 11:39:31 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: cripplecreek

I’ve always thought we should create an AK-47 factory in about Alabama. Stock AKs and ammo by the millions. Ship them to freedom lovers when they get into a scrape.

Just a thought.


65 posted on 02/20/2014 11:45:56 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Everyone pictured at the following link is being paid by Soros.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraine-crisis-shocking-photos-injured-dead-kiev-1437260

Or... You know... The other thing...


66 posted on 02/20/2014 11:49:28 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: 1rudeboy
"any provocateurs would be sniffed-out"

I've always thought that one of the most effective counter-totalitarian tactics would be to quietly kill the bureaucrats as they arrive home from work. Don't make any noise about it. Just do it.

Eventually, nobody will go to work for such a government.

What say you?

67 posted on 02/20/2014 11:49:50 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Dead Corpse
Or... You know... The other thing....

They are all George Soros in disguise?

68 posted on 02/20/2014 11:51:35 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Uncle Miltie

The Lithuanians did it with candles, while singing songs. And the casualty-count was far lower than here.


69 posted on 02/20/2014 11:52:47 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
"what would happen if you put a neo-Nazi in a room with George Soros?"

They'd have a reunion?

70 posted on 02/20/2014 11:54:21 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: 1rudeboy

The resemblance in those masks is uncanny...


71 posted on 02/20/2014 11:54:44 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

So the two questions remaining, are: are you unfamiliar with George Soros, or neo-Nazis?


72 posted on 02/20/2014 11:55:38 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
Interestingly enough, they had an interview with an American Observer on the Splino news feed. Warned everyone listening to keep an eye out for titushaka causing problems.

Had to look that one up, this is what I found.

Titushky.

Agents Provocateurs...

Around 10PM over there. Espresso feed is still showing folks arguing in Parliament.

73 posted on 02/20/2014 12:01:28 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: TexasRepublic
I’ll be much more interested when this kind of thing begins in DC.

I have to wonder what would happen if a few thousand armed 'protesters" stormed the White House. I assume the Capitol Police might start shooting to protect the WH. Would the UN and the world then demand that Obama stop shooting his own people and step down?

74 posted on 02/20/2014 12:01:51 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: 1rudeboy

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/29937


75 posted on 02/20/2014 12:02:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Cementjungle
Would the UN and the world then demand that Obama stop shooting his own people and step down?

Best laugh of the day. Well done!

76 posted on 02/20/2014 12:04:11 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation

You think that is funny?


77 posted on 02/20/2014 12:07:41 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: nascarnation
Best laugh of the day. Well done!

Actually I'm serious. In places like Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc. whenever the government uses force against protesters (who are blowing things up, shooting at people, etc.) we seem to side with the protesters and not the governments.

Certainly if protesters here got out of hand force would be needed to repel them, and then we would be in exactly the same position... the "government shooting it's own citizens".

78 posted on 02/20/2014 12:09:14 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: 1rudeboy

The humor is the theoretical premise that the statist United Nations would do anything to impede the forces of the Baraq Obama regime.


79 posted on 02/20/2014 12:12:27 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: elhombrelibre

The protesters tantrum trying to join the socialist EU has nothing in common with the American Revolution. Quite the opposite.


80 posted on 02/20/2014 12:12:40 PM PST by soycd
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