“Heavenly Hundred”- Monument to Commemorate those who gave their lives at Maidan, to be installed in Princeton

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

PRINCETON COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS in ASSOCIATION WITH FLUENT IN FOREIGN ACADEMY, BROAD STREET CAPITAL GROUP and NUMEROUS INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE PARTNERS IS ANNOUNCING AN INITIATIVE TO CREATE a

“HEAVENLY HUNDRED” (НЕБЕСНА СОТНЯ) MONUMENT

TO COMMEMORATE THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE. THE MONUMENT, ONCE COMPLETED, WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE PRINCETON, NJ AREA, WITH THE FAMOUS GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE MUSEUM SELECTED AS THE PRIMARY LOCATION.

WE ARE HEREBY ARE  CALLING ON THE SCULPTORS AROUND THE WORLD TO SUBMIT THEIR DESIGNS FOR THE PLANNED MONUMENT. THE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH MARCH 30th, 2014.  WINNING DESIGN WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON APRIL 27th, 2014.

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The stories of 10 of EuroMaidan’s slain ‘heroes’ (VIDEO)

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 Photo — by Daryna Shevchenko, Olena Goncharova

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Davyd Kipiani, native Georgian. Kipiani lived in Kyiv during the last year and was a member of Mikheil Saakashvilli’s party back in Georgia. He died in an ambulance of two gunshot wounds he suffered on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on Feb. 20. Kipiani’s 1-year-old son lost his father.
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By: Daryna Shevchenko, Olena Goncharova, Kyiv Post

As police bullets and tear gas rained down on protesters at Independence Square just after dawn on Feb. 20, the bloody body of one of the first victims of the violence was laid out with a candle memorial near the western barricade on Khreshchatyk Street.

A priest prayed over the body. A woman wept. A man, shaking his clenched fists in the air, shouted: “They are killing our heroes!”

 

Another man draped a Ukrainian flag on the man and then placed a sign above his head with a warning for Ukraine’s president: “Yanukovych, you’re next.”

Central Kyiv became a war zone just after breakfast time on Feb. 20, shattering a truce reached the night before by embattled President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders. Either police and protesters weren’t listening, or they had different orders.

When the bodies were counted, the victims’ total for the day had reached at least 50 people while the total number of fatalities since the start of the EuroMaidan protests is nearly 100 people dead.

In the days since the Feb. 20 bloodbath, funerals have been held, tears have been shed and a collective grief has set in throughout Ukraine with schools and other events cancelled, as well as businesses closed.

Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, newly freed from nearly three years in prison, urged the tens of thousands of people on Kyiv’s Independence Square on Feb. 22 to never forget EuroMaidan’s “heroes” because the bullets that killed them were meant for everyone.

Read the full story here.

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