Police and Protesters Clash Outside Ukraine Parliament
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Police and Protesters Clash Outside Ukraine Parliament
By IULIIA MENDELMARCH 3, 2018
KIEV — Clashes broke out near the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev on Saturday, after police began removing a camp
that was set up outside the government buildings last year to protest corruption.
"One was operated on, four have had their heads stitched up, others have bruises
and different smaller injures." The protest camp was set up in October 2017 by supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, who later served as the governor of the Odessa region in Ukraine.
Early Saturday morning, police entered the area to investigative another violent incident
that had taken place in February, in which several police officers were injured, said Andrey Kryshchenko, the head of the Kiev police.
He was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship last year after accusing the Ukrainian government of corruption, becoming
a key opposition figure to his onetime ally, President Petro O. Poroshenko, who had appointed him as governor.
On Friday, one day before the clash with the police, protesters had begun dismantling the tents by themselves after Parliament
seemed to be leaning toward taking action on one of their major demands: creating a national anticorruption court.
As heavy snow fell on the makeshift site, protesters burned tires
and scuffles broke out with police, who had moved in to dismantle the camp, which has been there for months.
By IULIIA MENDELMARCH 3, 2018
KIEV — Clashes broke out near the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev on Saturday, after police began removing a camp
that was set up outside the government buildings last year to protest corruption.
"One was operated on, four have had their heads stitched up, others have bruises
and different smaller injures." The protest camp was set up in October 2017 by supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, who later served as the governor of the Odessa region in Ukraine.
Early Saturday morning, police entered the area to investigative another violent incident
that had taken place in February, in which several police officers were injured, said Andrey Kryshchenko, the head of the Kiev police.
He was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship last year after accusing the Ukrainian government of corruption, becoming
a key opposition figure to his onetime ally, President Petro O. Poroshenko, who had appointed him as governor.
On Friday, one day before the clash with the police, protesters had begun dismantling the tents by themselves after Parliament
seemed to be leaning toward taking action on one of their major demands: creating a national anticorruption court.
As heavy snow fell on the makeshift site, protesters burned tires
and scuffles broke out with police, who had moved in to dismantle the camp, which has been there for months.