I was right there during the protests (as a tourist) and it was such a bizarre situation.

The thing started with the police _killing_ more than 10 children. And after that the crowd went after places like police stations, some palaces and the parliament. Most politicians fled, but the ones that were caught up were mostly bitten up, not killed.

As someone from Eastern Europe, who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union, it all seemed remarkably chill and peaceful - people were really after justice, not vengeance.

Prisons were mostly filled by political prisoners, though some bad apples took advantage to escape as well.

Being just a few kilometres away from the epicentre of things, it all felt very chill, people on the streets were very happy, police were ok, military was smiling and chatty - they were giving people water and trying to “look helpful”

Just the media wants to portray chaos cause that’s what’s driving the clicks, but the situation on the ground was quite ok.

The people did a quick *discord* vote, chose an interim president - who is someone everyone in the country agrees is one of the few incorruptible and honest people, and they will apparently have a proper election at some point when things settle down.

As “revolution” goes this seems like the most sane one I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a few …

Protest are often like this. Where it’s going on it is very intense but just on a side street people can be sitting quietly sipping latte like nothing special is happening.