Prosecutor General Office of #Ukraine reportedly plans to charge Volodymyr Parasiuk with massacre of Berkut policemen on February 20, 2014 & Tetiana Chornovol with deadly arson attack of Party of Regions office that resulted in killing of computer admin there on February 18, 2014
Parasiuk was affiliated with #farright Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists & Svoboda before #Maidan & was company commander in Right Sector-led Dnipro battalion after Maidan. Chornovol was activist of far right UNA-UNSO before Maidan & in Fatherland/Peoples Front during & after.
"... after many Ukrainians acclaimed Volodymyr Parasiuk a hero for helping to oust his country’s corrupt president, the 26-year-old computer enthusiast seems to reflect two changes that might eventually help a more democratic and stable Ukraine emerge..." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/beyond-the-crisis-hope-for-ukraine/">https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new...
The office computer technician who died during the arson attack was the first victim of the #Maidan massacre in #Ukraine. But until February 2020, the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine investigated his death as a result of a fire and not an arson attack .
"The former lawmaker is suspected of the crime of deliberately killing another person, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons in a manner dangerous to the lives of many people (sub-paragraphs 5, 12 of Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)."
"...on February 18, 2014, the suspect led the actions of a group of persons and directly participated in an arson attack on a building on Lypska Street in downtown Kyiv, where the office of one of the political parties was located. The criminal case was opened on March 25, 2020"
And @ForeignPolicy named Chornovol in 2014 after Maidan as one of leading "global thinkers" in spite of evidence of her involvement in the deadly arson attack, far right background, and misrepresentation as victim of political attack during Maidan in #Ukraine.
And @ForeignPolicy named Chornovol in 2014 after Maidan as one of leading "global thinkers" in spite of evidence of her involvement in deadly arson attack, far right background & misrepresentation as victim of political attack during Maidan in #Ukraine. #challengers/list">https://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/?fbclid=IwAR0tNTIrwh_ApwOJONEehOpOVhInDs5xPWa0a-MBDYI0a6dEPGAY60_PONQ #challengers/list">https://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/...
My Facebook post from November 2014 on Foreign Policy naming Chornovol as one of "leading global thinkers" in spite of evidence of her involvement in the deadly arson attack, far right background, and misrepresentation as a victim of a political attack during Maidan in Ukraine.
My 2015 APSA #Maidan massacre paper found "a deadly attack and burning by a large group of the protesters, including Tatiana Chornovol, of a nearby Party of Regions headquarters, which resulted in killing of a computer specialist in this office." (p. 21) #39;_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipers& #39;_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine">https://www.researchgate.net/publicati...
My 2016 APSA paper (p. 22): "The Maidan government investigation blamed without any evidence the Yanukovych government agents provocateurs for the attack and burning of the Yanukovych party headquarters and included the computer specialist among the killed Maidan protesters."
My recently published article, entitled "The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine," also examined involvement of Chornovol & far right in this arson attack that resulted in 1st casualty of #Maidan massacre in #Ukraine (pp. 10-11) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337947623_The_far_right_the_Euromaidan_and_the_Maidan_massacre_in_Ukraine">https://www.researchgate.net/publicati...
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