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Long before violence engulfed the protests, Russian officials began accusing the
demonstrators
of being neo-Nazis, radicals, and provocateurs.
The Ukrainian
demonstrators
marched against their government, not Russia’s.
Even before the Bardot visit,
demonstrators
besieged City Hall in opposition to the plan.
He has also taken a page from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s book, not only demonizing the demonstrators, but also going after the medical personnel who care for them and the hoteliers who shelter them.
There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the
demonstrators
and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.
It is these values that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and motivated the
demonstrators
in Kyiv to brave the brutal Ukrainian winter outdoors on the Maidan.
And Zhao’s toleration of the
demonstrators
was dividing the Politburo into factions.
The
demonstrators
are right to oppose his haughty disregard of public opinion and his stifling of the press.
And it was to Russia that Yanukovych turned when, after months of peaceful demonstrations in Kyiv, violence broke out and
demonstrators
were killed, spurring him to flee Ukraine.
What motivates Hong Kong’s tens of thousands of
demonstrators
is a passionate belief that they should be able to run their affairs as they were promised, choosing those who govern them in free and fair elections.
The peaceful
demonstrators
in Hong Kong, with their umbrellas and refuse-collection bags, will not themselves be swept off the streets like garbage or bullied into submission by tear gas and pepper spray.
The
demonstrators
in Hong Kong, young and old, represent the city’s future.
But, even if the tens of thousands of
demonstrators
are unlikely to threaten the survival of Putin’s regime, the Kremlin would be wise to take them seriously.
Russia’s demonstrators’ message is simple: “Too much corruption, disdain, and inequality is too much.”
On that point, the
demonstrators
have so far remained curiously mute: they have yet to articulate any wider demands or a sense of what a different society, or “real democracy” – a stock phrase of the Spanish movement – should be all about.
In fact, on the Egyptian revolution’s two-year anniversary last week, when thousands of
demonstrators
took to the streets to protest President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, at least nine female protesters were sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square.
While some of the
demonstrators
might be inspired by democratic ideals, let’s have no illusions, the Israelis seem to be saying: Islamist forces will emerge as the only winners, and they are much more hostile to Israel and the West than their predecessors were.
Supposedly steeped in remorse, the military judge later committed suicide;General Atanase Stanculescu, who only a few days before the trial had ordered troops to open fire on street
demonstrators
in Timisoara, was named Minister of Defense not long after sentence was pronounced;Virgil Magureanu became the powerful head of the Romanian Intelligence Service.
Demonstrators
have taken to the streets of the capital, Skopje, shouting that the government has opted for a policy of open discrimination on “ethnic and religious grounds.”
By contrast, the army’s decision to allow Mubarak loyalists – some riding camels or horses – to charge into Cairo’s Tahrir Square and attack thousands of anti-government
demonstrators
was a classic “military as government” move.
While it is true that millions of
demonstrators
opposed Morsi’s rule, even massive street protests do not constitute a valid case for a military coup in the name of the “people” when election results repeatedly say otherwise.
Wounded
demonstrators
are reported to have been buried alive in mass graves, and there are confirmed reports of bodies washing ashore in the waterways near Yangon (Rangoon).
It was only in the late 1980’s, when the Communist empire was crumbling, that US governments actively backed democratic politicians and
demonstrators
in Seoul, Taipei, or Manila.
If the West decides that the government has become unreliable, television shots of demonstrators’ weekly clashes with the Baku police, Ilham’s refusal to hold televised debates, and the confiscation of all orange objects from stores will come in handy.
When the Arab Spring protests began in early 2011, peaceful
demonstrators
in Syria demanded reforms.
He has inspired thousands of demonstrators, many from his power base in the country’s south, to storm and occupy government buildings with the aim of unseating Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Two months later, in Portugal, similar parades featured the same Hitlerized Merkel caricatures, borne by howling
demonstrators
dressed in mourning clothes and decrying the German leader’s “policy of massacring the poor.”
Likewise, the slogans slung about in Valencia in October 2012 – with
demonstrators
urged to chant at the chancellor’s effigy, “You will love money above all else” and “You will honor the banks and the Bank” – had the unmistakably foul odor of the old mantras about “the golden calf” and the “cosmopolitan plutocracy.”
Badiny was reappointed after the revolution, but then reprimanded in November 2011, following clashes between
demonstrators
and police that left more than 40 protesters dead.
Demonstrators
turn out for protests, which are growing in strength, to call for an investigation and increasingly, for Mr Kuchma’s resignation.
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