by | February 21, 2014 · 1:36 am

Please pray for the people of Ukraine

Kiev Protest Timeline

  • Nov. 21, 2013: When Ukraine President Yanukovych’s government announces it is abandoning the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia, protesters take to the streets.
  • Nov. 30, 2013: Police brutally attack a group of protesters. Images galvanize public support for the demonstrations.
  • Dec. 1, 2013: 300,000 protesters congregate in Kiev and seize City Hall.
  • Jan. 22, 2014: Harsh new anti-protest laws set off violence. Three protesters die during confrontations with police
  • Jan. 28, 2014: Ukraine’s Prime Minister resigns and the parliament repeals the new anti-protest laws.
  • Feb. 16, 2014: Protesters give back Kiev City Hall in exchange for the release of all 234 jailed protesters.
  • Feb. 18, 2014: When parliament stalls on taking up a promised constitutional reform to limit presidential powers, protesters attack police lines and set fires. Riot police respond by trying to push protesters off Independence Square. At least 26 (including 10 police) are killed.
  • Feb. 20, 2014: Hours after a truce is announced, fierce clashes erupt again between protesters and police, with numerous casualties.

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  1. itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
    February 21, 2014 at 10:07 am

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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