PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: September 16 protests in Lviv

LVIV - Several thousand demonstrators expressed their opposition to President Leonid Kuchma in Lviv on September 16 during one of the biggest gatherings here since Ukraine's proclamation of independence. The Lviv protests were part of the nationwide campaign called "Arise, Ukraine." Although many students were advised by their professors not to participate in the demonstrations, many of them marched along with other Lviv residents, including such longtime leaders of the Ukrainian human rights struggle as former Soviet political prisoner Levko Lukianenko. (More photos from this series will appear in the next issue of Katchka, Le Canard Ukrainien, a French-language monthly published in Paris. For information e-mail katchka@free.fr.)

- Text and photos by Kyrylo Horiszny of Katchka.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 13, 2002, No. 41, Vol. LXX

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