The PEOPLE have spoken

I have stopped believing in anything I hear from any source. Yesterday, I decided to take walk to Opera and see what was really happening. I had heard that the police were forcing people out of the opera square. people, mostly women, had decided to lay flowers and light candles in the memory of those who have lost their lives and for those who have disappeared after the March 1 incidents. We got some calls saying that people were being beaten and women were being forced out by force (violence and electric shocks). Other sources later confirmed these allegations.

However, nearly an hour into the silent protest, where people were to forma long line from the Opera House to the buildings of the Italian and French Embassies, I decided, enough of this hearsay, I want to see what is going on. What we saw was a large number of people - many of them leaders in NGOs and businesses. young and old, some holding candles and standing near a lamp post, but most of them silently walking up and sown the line from the Opera to the Embassies. There was a heavy presence of police and military - mostly for the "in case" situation. I saw no violent acts. On the contrary, people were taking photo and video footage of the entire thing, and the police did not interfere.

This demonstration said loud and clear, that the people are not on the side of this candidate or the other, but they were rooting for the side of fair and just governance. There was no leader guiding the people in yesterday's march... it was just the people.