Rebuking Compromise, Anti-Government Protesters Storm Govt Buildings

Rebuking an attempt Saturday by Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich to quell anti-government protesters by offering to share leadership, opposition leaders say they will be the ones making the demands.

Demonstrators seized a number of government buildings over the weekend, as protests have grown increasingly violent following the deaths earlier this week of at least two protesters after Kiev police advanced on the crowd with smoke, tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades and water cannons.

AFP reports:

The president also offered to author an amnesty bill for arrested protesters and to re-consider draconian anti-protest laws which went into affect Wednesday.

Mobile phone users in the vicinity of protests earlier this week received a “big brother text” reading, “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass riot”—which many said echoed the language used in the anti-protest laws.

“We are not refusing the offer but we are not accepting it either,” Yatsenyuk later told reporters before writing on his Facebook page that the opposition should be the one dictating terms, not the other way around.

Yanukovich called for a special session of parliament Tuesday and said it could discuss repealing those laws, Al Jazeera reports.

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