Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Testimonies by 43 Wounded Maidan Protesters about Snipers in Maidan-Controlled Locations: Video Appendix D Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. School of Political Studies University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada ikatchan@uottawa.ca This 53-minute long online video appendix with English-language subtitles includes testimonies at the Maidan massacre trial and/or investigation about snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings and areas by 43 Maidan protesters, who were wounded on February 20, 2014. This is the absolute majority of 66 wounded Maidan protesters, with whose shooting Berkut policemen are charged and whose testimonies were revealed at the trial. At least 25 wounded protesters testified at the trial and/or the investigation that they were shot from Maidan-controlled buildings or areas. At least 29 protesters testified that they witnessed snipers there and/or were told about snipers in these locations by other protesters. This is a video appendix of papers presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston and the "Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956" conference by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies at Uppsala University in 2018 (Katchanovski, 2018a, 2018b). It also supplements previous studies of the Maidan massacre by the author (Katchanovski, 2015, 2016, 2017). The Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine investigation also determined based on testimonies of wounded protesters, forensic examinations of wounds and extracted bullets, and investigative experiments that almost half of protesters (77 out of 157) were wounded on February 20, 2014 from other sectors than the Berkut police, that government snipers units did 1
not massacre them. No one was charged with their shooting. These testimonies were not made public, and cannot be included in this video appendix. The official investigation denied existence of such snipers in these Maidan-controlled buildings and areas.
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References Katchanovski, Ivan (2018a). “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, https://apsa2018-apsa.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=BE-A77C-A2-1B-56-0C-9E-48-D5-D8-80-27-5D-F6-17. Katchanovski, Ivan (2018b). “”Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine and Revelations from Maidan Massacre Trials and Investigations." Paper presented at the “Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956" conference by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Uppsala. Katchanovski, Ivan (2017). “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Government Investigations. “ Paper presented at the 22th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, May 4-6, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2994347. Katchanovski, Ivan (2016). “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: A Summary of Analysis, Evidence, and Findings.” In The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, the West and Russia. J.L. Black and Michael Johns (Eds.), Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 220-224. Katchanovski, Ivan (2015). “The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 36, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245.
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