Yanukovych personally ordered Nov 30 Euromaidan crackdown, Prosecutor General …
Berkut riot police disperses demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 11, 2013 (UNIAN photo)
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Yanukovych personally ordered Nov. 30 crackdown that galvanized Euromaidan movement – Prosecutor General’s Office
Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych personally ordered the crackdown on the Euromaidan activists in Kyiv on November 30, 2013, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) announced on Tuesday.
“The investigation has established that the decision to forcefully break up the student Maidan on November 30, 2013 was made directly by the country’s then-president,” the Head of the Prosecutor General’s Office specialized investigations department Serhiy Horbatyuk said at a press briefing in Kyiv.
Investigators said that former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko and former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev were instructed to follow Yanukovych’s order.
A violent, late-night crackdown on mainly student rally by Berkut riot police on November 30 transformed the protests from a pro-European demonstration into a broad-based, anti-government movement. The bloody event was caught on camera and spread across social media, angering Ukrainians throughout the country.