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The United States of America and some European countries marked another anniversary of the tragedy in Odessa with protest rallies, RIA Novosti reports.
On May 2, 2014, 4 years ago, activists from the Right Sector nationalist political party banned in Russia destroyed a tented camp of Ukraine’s Federalization adherents. The latter tried to hide away from the outraged radicals in the House of Trade Unions, but the radicals set the building on fire. Around 50 people died there and more than 200 people were badly injured in that massacre.
According to the supervisor of the project Fill Willayto, the organizers wanted to attract attention of the world community to tragic events in Odessa. He is sure that everybody indifferent to this situation must have come out on the streets as a sign of solidarity with Odessa residents.
The rallies were held next to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington and at the Times Square in New York. People gathered at Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco. Citizens of Minneapolis, Albany, Richmond and Blacksburg joined the campaign.
The Day of Commemorating Victims in Odessa was marked in different cities of UK, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
He has also reminded that that day Odessa citizens came to the tragedy scene, which was very dangerous as local radicals planned their own activities at the same place and at the same time where the relatives of the dead were to gather. “This is an extremely dangerous situation,” the coordinator remarked.
American human rights defenders wrote a public letter to the U.S. State Department and the Ukrainian Authorities requesting to secure safety of the participants of the mournful commemorative events in Odessa, as per the statement made on Tuesday by the project coordinator Odessa Solidarity Campaign of the United National Antiwar Coalition Fill Willayto.
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