User:Francesko Lamce/sandbox

Too many bad things have happened in Ukraine. Since the start of the current antigovernment demonstrations, five protesters have been killed and many others beaten up. The hospitals are treating people shot with live bullets. There are reports of torture by the security forces, whose brutality and insidiousness were exposed by a graphic report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The violence intensified on January 17 after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pushed through draconian laws aimed at suppressing a wide range of civil rights. Ever since, sections of the opposition have become increasingly violent. Most people, however, are simply fed up with ineffectual opposition leaders, fed up with Yanukovych’s rule, and fed up with the authorities’ corruption and lying.

As a result, Ukraine is rapidly being drawn into an ever-worsening cycle of violence. If this continues, the country could face a very dark future, as the Polish Institute of International Affairs, a think tank, outlined.