Image: Armenian police used excessive force against peaceful protesters and journalists on July 29, 2016. Author: Nancy Kricorian (@nancykric), Twitter
YEREVAN, Armenia — In any urban protests that police meet with violence, there is one day or night when authorities’ use of force reaches a crescendo.
That day was February 20, 2014, at the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine’s capital of Kiev. President Viktor Yanukovych’s security forces shot more than 60 demonstrators dead, bringing to more than 100 the number whom police had killed in about a month’s time.
The crescendo of law-enforcement violence against demonstrators supporting an armed group who occupied a police …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
