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NEWS & LETTERS, October 2002
Ukraine opposition
Kiev, Ukraine--Demonstrations by the United Opposition to
President Kuchma took place here Sept. 16 and 17. Participating in it were the
Communist Party (CP), the Socialist Party (SP), as well as the Tymoshenko and
Yushchenko blocks. All four forces had their own events at their designated
meeting places on Sept. 16: the CP at Arsenalna Square, the SP at Poshtova
Square, the Tymoshenko block at Khmelnitskogo Square, and the Yushchenko block
at Tolstogo Square. All parts of the opposition marched to the central
Independence Square where they held a common political meeting. Despite having
expected more than 100,000 participants, only about 25,000 all together attended
these events. After finishing the common meeting, the elements of the
opposition conducted some separate actions. The Tymoshenko block organized the
picket of the presidential administration; the CP picketed the council of
ministers, and the SP picketed the parliament. In the evening a tent camp was organized near the
parliament, but it was removed that night. About 100 people were arrested and
about 150 were injured. None of our comrades were arrested, but two comrades
were slightly injured. Now they are OK. Separate actions continued on Sept. 17; however they had a
smaller number of participants. Our intervention was quite intensive and
successful. Our comrades distributed more than 130 copies of our leaflet with
the explanation of our Marxist-Humanist position and we found a lot of promising
new contacts, in particular with CP and SP regional rank-and-file members who
are quite critical of their leadership. We have to develop at our meetings our
plan of work with these contacts. --Vadym |
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