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The “Snipers’ Massacre
” on the Maidan in Ukraine
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(With Revised and Updated Online Video Appendix (2017)) Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. School of Political Studies University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada ikatchan@uottawa.ca Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association in San Francisco, September 3-6, 2015
“Il est défendu de tuer; tout meurtrier est puni, à moins qu’il n’ait tué en grande compagnie, et au son des trompettes; c’est la règle.”[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are
punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets; it is the rule].
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(Voltaire).
The 55 minute long online video appendix with added English-language subtitles is produced from brief synchronized segments of on-site reports by American, Belgian, Belarusian, British, Finish, French, Dutch, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian TV correspondents and social media videos by various Maidan protesters who filmed the Maidan massacre on February 20, 2014. These videos are cited in the following papers for which this video appendix is produced:
„The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Government Investigations,“ presented at the 22th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, May 4-6, 2017, and „The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association in San Francisco, September 3-6, 2015. The papers are available at: https://www.academia.edu/33689002/The_Maidan_Massacre_in_Ukraine_Revelations_from_Trials_and_Government_Investigations https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245 https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipers%27_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine
