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Begging for forgiveness, the riot police blamed for dozens of deaths in Kiev:
Mail Online ^ | 06:12 EST, 25 February 2014 | William Stewart

Posted on 02/27/2014 8:21:56 AM PST by FBD

Riot police in Ukraine fell to their knees to ask for forgiveness for their colleagues who shot and beat antigovernment protesters in the recent Kiev massacre.The extraordinary scenes in Lviv involved the Berkut elite anti-riot force whose members had returned from duty in the capital.They apologised on a stage in front of pro-Europe protesters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berkut; riotpolice; ukraine
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To: FBD
-Most of the Berkut riot police were young, broke Russian sympathizers bussed in from the east side of Ukraine.

Compare to the Chinese soldiers at Tiananmen Square.

They were all from outer provinces, could barely understand the Mandarin dialect, and were told the people in Beijing looked down on back country hicks.

They, like the imported Russian Ukrainians, would not have fired on people they perceived to be like them.

Now keep that in mind every time an urban politician disparages The South, Flyover Country, or...

61 posted on 02/28/2014 8:33:31 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void

Good point. Outsiders are always used, when it comes down to shooting innocent people.


62 posted on 02/28/2014 9:44:40 AM PST by FBD
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To: DariusBane

Bump and bookmark your post link


63 posted on 02/28/2014 9:54:55 AM PST by FBD
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To: tlozo

Bump and bookmark
- great post


64 posted on 02/28/2014 10:00:28 AM PST by FBD
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