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100,000 người biễu tình đễ ũng hộ một "Ukraine thân Âu Châu" đễ bõ Nga!
100,000 + massed for
pro-Europe rally in Ukraine; US calls for end to confrontation
Pro-European integration protesters attack a police van during a
rally near government administration buildings in Kiev Photograph: Gleb
Garanich /Reuters
Pro-European protesters shout slogans and make hand gestures
during a rally on Independence Square in Kiev. Photograph: Gleb Garanich
/Reuters
Opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko (C) reacts after he was sprayed
with a powder fire extinguisher during a pro-European integration rally in
Kiev. Photograah: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Pro-European protesters shout slogans and gesture during a rally
at Independence Square in Kiev. Photograph:L Gleb Garanich/Reuters
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First published: Sun, Jan 19, 2014, 15:33
A group of young masked demonstrators attacked a cordon of police
with sticks and tried to overturn a bus blocking their way to the parliament
building after opposition politicians called on people to disregard the new
legislation.
Despite appeals from opposition leaders not to resort to violence,
and a personal intervention from boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, protesters continued to
throw smoke bombs and hurl fireworks and other objects at police.
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The police appeared to show restraint during that fracas.
The interior ministry said 20 police were hurt, more than 10
committed for hospital treatment and four in serious condition.
As tensions continued into the night, police used water cannon
against demonstrators gathered near the parliament building and the heavily
protected government headquarters, eyewitnesses said.
The US embassy in Kiev called for an end to the the confrontation,
urging “all sides to cease any acts provoking or resulting in violence,”
according to an e-mailed statement. It also urged the government to start
negotiations to resolve the standoff.
Earlier, some distance away from the clashes, up to 100,000 Ukrainians
massed on Kiev’s Independence Square in defiance of the sweeping new laws,
which ban rallies and which Washington and other Western capitals have
denounced as undemocratic.
The rally, the biggest of the new year, was the latest in a cycle
of public protests in the former Soviet republic since president Viktor Yanukovich made a policy U-turn in
November away from the European Union towards Russia, Ukraine’s former Soviet overlord.
Several big protests in December attracted hundreds of thousands
of people, while thousands maintained a vigil in a Kiev square demanding
Yanukovich resign.
Since the new year demonstrations have become smaller, but
hundreds of people are still camping in the square and 50,000 turned out a week
ago.
The court ban on protests published on January 15th and last
Thursday’s legislation aimed at prohibiting all form of public protests, have
inflamed tensions again.
The laws - denounced by the United States and other Western
governments as anti-democratic - ban any unauthorised installation of tents,
stages or use of loud-speakers in public.
Heavy jail sentences were imposed for participation in “mass
disorder” and the wearing of face-masks or protective helmets.
Dissemination of “extremist” or libellous information about the
country’s leaders was outlawed.
In a gesture of scorn for the helmet ban, many protesters on
Sunday wore saucepans and colanders on their heads.
The crisis has highlighted a divide in the country of 46 million
people between those, particularly in Russian-speaking eastern areas, who
identify more closely with a shared past with Russia and those, especially in
the Ukrainian-speaking parts of western and central Ukraine, who look westwards.
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