From: "Nicolas G." <elgraben-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [i-news]: More News Bits from Prague
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:21:47 GMT


Your missing the most important ones yet Chuck....

UPDATE 18:17 Police heavily charged sections pink and blue that managed to 
enter the Congress Centre area making nearly contact with the IMF delegates. 
Police stood idly for a while when only a stairway separated protesters from 
delegates on a balcony. Then riot police, previously deployed on the bridge, 
charged the protesters. We don't know of any injured but people were beaten 
badly. Our reporter had to interrupt the phone call because attacked by 
police.

UPDATE 18:01 Confirmed reports over cell phone to IMC Radio that the police 
line has been breached and that part of the conference
center has been occupied.



It's killing me inside to not be there.
I'd give anything.
This is, at least the impression I get from the updates, a much greater 
success than Seattle if they have managed to enter the convention center.  I 
wish all the pacifists and liberals could see this and realize that the only 
reason these things can be pulled off in Europe is because when people 
engage in direct conflict with the state, such as here, and take the 
measures appropriate to be effective when doing so (barricades, molotovs, 
bars, etc.) over there few try to stop them, and most join in and help out.

Nicolas G.


>UPDATE 17:19: Reports continue to indicate that demonstrators are within
>meters of the convention center.
>UPDATE 17:14: Cars are being overturned and used as barricades. Cops
>retreating. Dogs have been released. The demonstrators are moving on the
>East side of the convention center.
>UPDATE 17:10: Demonstrators have broken through police lines around the
>convention center. More than 500 are directly outside the convention
>center.
>UPDATE 16:30: All metros have been closed in Praha.
>UPDATE 16:06: The valley on the North side is still very tense. Police a
>trying to force demonstrators back out of the valley.
>UPDATE 15:27: News from South blockade: water cannons and tear gas have
>attempted to break the barricade. A tank also tried to breach the
>blockade.
>The blockade is still holding though has retreated 100m. Police have
>tried
>to force the blockade apart, but the situation seems to be cooling off.
>No
>injuries reported.
>UPDATE 15:27: Reports that the North bridge blockade is spliting up are
>coming across the wire. One group is going North to the city, the other
>maybe trying to join the other marches.
>UPDATE 14:41: Reports of large clashes with police continue from around
>the
>city.
>UPDATE 14:00: BBC is reporting that some police were set on fire due to
>molotov cocktails.
>UPDATE 13:45: Ya Basta is pusing hard against police lines on the bridge
>to
>the convention center.
>UPDATE 13:20: Reports of massive police violence from under the bridge
>to
>the convention center. Gas, spray, water cannons and other weapons are
>being used against the people marching toward the convention center from
>the valley. Many people have recived head injuries. One witness reports
>hundreds of tear gas rounds being fired.
>
>
>jason
>jza-AT-magicnet.net
>http://www.magicnet.net/~jza/
>http://www.magicnet.net/~jza/news.html
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