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For Russia, the threat posed by the Ukrainian
protesters
was existential.
In demanding change, freedom, and democracy – right on Russia’s doorstep, no less – the
protesters
challenged Putin’s model of “sovereign democracy,” in which the president eliminates all opposition, restricts media freedom, and then tells citizens that they can choose their leaders.
A retired prefectural governor from Kardze told the Singapore paper Zaobao that “the government should have more trust in its people, particularly the Tibetan monks,” and the current Tibet governor admitted that some
protesters
last year “weren’t satisfied with our policies,” rather than calling them enemies of the state, the first official concession from within China that some of its policies might be connected to the recent protests.
Four of the 82
protesters
killed in Kyiv’s Independence Square were Jewish, and a Jewish sotnia, or “hundred” – a term, ironically, associated with Cossack pogromists – defended the square against Yanukovych’s uniformed goons.
Protesters
vividly express widespread frustration with deepening inequality, and condemnation of privileges of a global financial elite comes uncomfortably close to implicating government.
Of course, when Yanukovych returned home, he had to face thousands of
protesters
in Kyiv’s Maidan (Independence Square).
Determined to hold him to his promise to sign the EU agreement and not take Ukraine into a customs union with Russia, the
protesters
mobilized the country.
Recall that the Occupy Wall Street
protesters
in 2011 took over lower Manhattan for two full months.
It also allows easier contact with fringe groups, such as anti-globalization
protesters
and the most zealous greens.
The board gathers in front of a camera for a live webcast to shareholders, takes questions submitted in advance, and avoids the
protesters
altogether.
Morsi has thus been put in the odd position of having to defend his decision against the
protesters
while simultaneously making common cause with them.
Protesters
there reported that Israeli police and soldiers confronted rallies with live bullets; by the end of the day’s demonstrations, five Palestinian
protesters
were dead.
The protesters, whether they are liberal or leftist, tend to be from the urban elite – Westernized, sophisticated, and secular.
The images of pro-democracy
protesters
and the subsequent military crackdown in downtown Bangkok have been openly shown in Chinese media without any apparent bias.
Local protesters, for example, sometimes prevent the use of land for industrial and other commercial purposes.
When the US decided to push Saddam Hussein’s killers out of Kuwait, German
protesters
screamed that they would never “shed blood for oil.”
But that didn’t stop at least 2,500
protesters
from showing up on Moscow’s Pushkin Square, where they stood up to merciless police, waving signs emblazoned with slogans like “No Way” (a play on Putin’s name: “put” means “way” in Russian) and “Putin, it’s time to retire” (he is 65).
Protesters
included many young people, who are angry not just about the pension reform, which will not affect them for a long time, but about the Putin regime’s wider failings.
That is why police meted out such rough treatment to protesters, arresting them by the hundreds.
Internally, President Bashar al-Assad’s government tries to placate its people by feigning reform and portraying
protesters
as foreign-controlled terrorists.
Assad’s red herring, a belated and sham referendum on constitutional reform, has not ended the indiscriminate killing of thousands of
protesters
and innocent civilians.
Putin’s Brave New WorldMOSCOW – Three months after
protesters
toppled Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych and his government, unleashing a wave of unrest and chaos, the country has elected a new president.
We therefore appeal to the authorities of the People’s Republic of China to rescind the decision to execute these protesters, and to provide them with an opportunity to be re-tried in a judicial process that is more in keeping with the international standards that China says that it adheres to.
But beyond the grim fates of the Tibetans that have now been sentenced by the Tibetan court to death or life imprisonment for the protests that took place a year ago, we are also concerned about the hundreds of other detained
protesters
who have yet to be tried by the Municipal Court in Lhasa.
Yemen’s Regime Change Gets PersonalSANAA – When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful
protesters
calling for his resignation, he sealed his fate.
If Saleh leaves peacefully and represses the urge to unleash the last remaining loyal army units against
protesters
and defecting soldiers, the country can avert Libya-like mayhem.
Though it would take time for an ad hoc Arab tribunal to be formed and to reach the point at which it could issue indictments, Syrian military commanders would immediately be put on notice that they could face prosecution for their actions against
protesters.
We should beware of the “zoom effect,” which made many people believe that the young
protesters
of Cairo’s Tahrir Square were fully representative of Egyptian society.
The protesters’ trademark so far has been moderation and restraint; nothing would be more dangerous than violent repression.
From the standpoint of condemning elite behavior, Russian
protesters
evoke, at least partly, the actors of the Arab revolution.
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