Ukrainian
police get ‘shoot to kill orders’ amid unrest over army hit &
run killing of 8yo – report
RT,
16
March, 2015
Police
have reportedly been allowed to use live rounds as tensions flare in
the eastern Ukrainian town of Konstantinovka, where an eight-year-old
girl was killed in a hit-and-run accident by an Ukrainian forces’
armored vehicle.
Warning
shots have already been heard in the city, according to some reports.
Following
the incident on Monday, in which an armored vehicle has run over and
killed an eight-year-old child, enraged people gathered in front of
the military unit stationed in the local school building, demanding
for the military to surrender those who were involved in the hit and
run accident, Sputnik reported. The crowd has also reportedly set
fire to the entrance of the dorms of the Ukrainian forces.
“In
the evening, near the dorms occupied by security forces, several
hundred local residents gathered. They shouted: ‘Fascists!’ And
threw stones at the windows of the barracks, set fire to two cars of
the National Guard and overturned the third. In response, security
forces fired several shots into the air,” one eyewitness told
Sputnik. One of the people from the crowd reportedly threw a Molotov
cocktail at one of the dorm windows, starting a fire.
According
to Popular Front deputy Anton Gerashchenko, shoot-to-kill orders are
enforced in Konstantinovka, to stop those trying to “incite” the
violence.
“If
someone in Kostyantynivka uses arms to oppose the laws of the
Ukrainian authorities, uses this accident (hit and run) for mass
unrest, then we will fire one warning shot, and then will be shooting
to kill. If there is no time to warn , we will be shooting to kill
immediately,” said Gerashchenko. “No one is allowed to undermine
the Ukrainian government with arms in their hands.”
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