COMPLETE DEMOCRACY
From 0900 hours on Friday the 23rd of May 2011, the streets of the Niacin
Capital, Kamahis saw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators chanting slogans
for the ousting of the authoritarian regime and the establishment of what they
called a "complete democracy."
It was the 27th day of the democratic movement. Thousands of semi-armed
civilian police were unable to control the crowd on the road. Clashes erupted
in every corner of the streets between demonstrators and policemen throwing
stones, rocks at each other. Many people on both sides were severely injured
and the situation was beyond control immediately, especially in the Kalpak and
Gingboo areas. The government deployed Armed Police with three APC in the
streets with military backup. The mass grew beyond imagination in the Kalpak
and Gingboo areas and people marched with roaring slogans defying security
orders and restrictions. Major Sergei Bruno was commanding the Kalpak area with
two hundred and forty-one police personnel and more problematic Gingboo area
was in the command of tough Major Michael Osman.
Major Michael Osman was commanding two hundred fifty-eight police personnel.
Major Michael Osman was asking the angrily marching demonstrators to keep
restraint in his area. Nobody cared about his request. At 12:05 hours, when the
situation went beyond control, he ordered his men to fire three hundred and
twenty five rounds fired at the demonstrators from the shoot gun and eight gas
gun shell. Police beat them up by stick and button, chased and fired at the
fleeing demonstrators. In a moment, two men were dead in the streets and
several others were severely injured including five women. There were many
empty bullet cases around the vicinity and there were screams and cries from
the injured. In a half an hour's period, police were able to disperse the
crowd.
The Red-cross and Human rights people rushed the injured to the hospitals and
medical centers. A young man about sixteen years of age died on the way.
Enraged from the news of death of their friends in the Gingboo area, the
agitating mass in the Kalpak area proceeded towards the police throwing stones,
burning tires chanting slogans, and blowing trumpets and whistles. Major Sergei
Bruno fired fifty rounds of bullets from his automatic rifle emptying two
magazines. They also used five LMG fired there. His men fired forty forty-two
gas shells and several rubber bullets injuring many people in the streets and
suffocating the children and elderly of the nearby houses with the peppery gas.
Two women and a man were killed and more than 50 injured. Police secured two
dead bodies while the crowd carried the body of one dead. The angry crowds
caught hold of five policemen, beat them severely, unclothed them and carried
them with them. The crowd took possession of a gas launcher and a pistol from
the police. The injured people were taken to the nearby Kamahis City Hospital.
The government owned radio and television announced five dead while the private
Kamahis television stated six people were dead and more than two hundred
injured during the incidents including twenty children. The majority of people
have such severe head injuries that the Kamahis Television reported doctors
voicing fears of more deaths.
An independent Investigation Commission was established after the success of
the movement. There were four men and one woman in the team excluding team
leader. The Commission started investigation against officials using excessive
force in the peaceful movement. Major Michael Osman who was the chief of
Gingboo Local Police Station presented his alibi against allegations of the use
of undue force in the Gingboo area while Major Sergei Bruno did not comment.
The witness is a UN employee.
On the following day at 11.35 hrs the team visited the area and told all
eyewitnesses to attend there. The police team later searched the area and
discovered one more dead body of an infant nearby the bush. The investigation
then referred to the serious crime investigation team to investigate the matter
after three days of the incident.
QUESTION
AND ANSWERS
Family Name:………………………………….…...First
Name...................................................
CP......................Country:…………………..........................................Date:……………………..
1. When did the democratic movement start?
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2. When did the investigation refer to the serious crime investigation team?
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3. How many people died in this incident?
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4. What was the rank and position of Michel Osman?
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5. How many women and children and women injured and how many children died in
this incident?
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6. How many bullets were fired in this incident and what type of weapons used
there?
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7. How many people died in hospital and give the hospital name.
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8. How long did it take for police to disperse the crowd in Gingboo area?
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9. How many people were in the independent Investigation Commission and how
many women there?
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10. What did the crowd take into possession of by the police?
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