Several people were injured after a riot broke out at a political
rally in Ukraine when protesters displayed anti-Semitic slogans.
The
April 6 rally in Cherkasy, a city situated 100 miles southeast of Kyiv,
turned violent after six men took off their jackets to reveal T-shirts
emblazoned with the words: “Beat the kikes” and “Svoboda,” the name of a
Ukrainian ultra-nationalist movement and the word for “freedom” in
Ukrainian.
Police arrested one of the men, who were also confronted by people attending the rally, a gathering of opposition parties.
Police questioned 36 people suspected of inciting ethnic hatred in
connection with the incident, according to a report by the Coordination
Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism, a watchdog group.
One of the people injured at the rally, attended by a few hundred people, was Victor Smal, a lawyer and human rights activist.
“I told the men in the T-shirts they were promoting hatred," Smal
told the news site newsru.co.il. "They beat me to the ground and kicked
me until I los consciousness."
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/the-times-of-israel-anti-semitic-slogans-trigger-violence-at-ukraine-rally-323162.html
Friday 12 April 2013
Anti-Semitic slogans trigger violence at Ukraine political rally
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