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by Our Foreign Desk
NEONAZI Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh began setting up field offices to establish a national referendum across the country to demand the resignation of government ministers.
The Right Sector fuehrer told a rally of up to 6,000 of his supporters in central Kiev on Tuesday evening that events marked a “new stage of the Ukrainian revolution.”
The field offices would act as “revolutionary committees,” he added.
“People must voice their attitude to what’s happening in the country … the government should know that, if the people are not pleased with it, then it must go,” he declared.
The Right Sector leader went on to say that, if the movement is not given the right to organise the referendum, it will create its own election committee and “will vote independently on the whole territory of Ukraine.”
The extremists, wearing camouflage uniforms and waving the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) red and black flags associated with wartime nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, chanted: “Death to our enemies.”
Speaking on Maidan, Mr Yarosh said that his organisation is “showing that we are a disciplined revolutionary force,” opening a “new stage of the Ukrainian revolution.”
The demonstrators demanded the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
As well as a referendum to show no confidence in the Ukrainian authorities, Mr Yarosh said that there should also be a vote over imposing martial law on the territory of Ukraine, including the eastern regions that do not recognise the Kiev government.
Right Sector and associated extremist groups provided the cutting edge for the coup d’etat that forced the elected government of Viktor Yanukovych to resign in February 2014.
Their heavily armed “volunteer” battalions have refused to recognise the Minsk ceasefire and they issued calls “to blockade the Donbass” during Tuesday’s rally.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Kiev on Sunday to protest over the rising costs of housing, gas and electricity.
They carried banners proclaiming: “Where are the reforms?” and “we are dying of hunger.”
A similar rally took place in the central city of Dnepropetrovsk where demonstrators, mainly older people, blocked a main road, demanding the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko.
