21.07.2017
Visiting the site of the Revolution of Dignity, Maidan Nezaleznosti in Kyiv. Many memorials stand in memory of the hundred (‘Heavenly Hundred’) who were killed in the Maidan, and the many more hundreds who were wounded, disappeared and detained without cause, explanation and subject to inhumane treatment and violence.
The Heavenly Hundred:
Serhiy (Sergei) was the first activist to be shot dead in Maidan. This was on January 22nd, he was 21 years old:
Mural by Portuguese artist, Serhiy Nigoyan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OD2wguuP-xc ; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0SNUH8oqY
The importance and significance of memorialising the events of January and February 2014 lies not only in the fact that these people, young boys of 19 and older citizens, men and women, of 75 were killed because of their faith and loyalty to their country and its freedom, and anger at the oppression, or just because they were present, protesting with their colleagues, friends and family. The significant extends beyond this, to the ongoing war in Donetsk and Luhansk, the violent occupation of Crimea, and the 190,000 recruited Ukrainian soldiers fighting a war against Russian occupation, provoked and continued by Russian aggression.
(Former headquarters of the Trade Union)
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