VIDEO. Violent bloody protest at the Memorial in Burgas, Bulgaria. 2011

by 3Mozzies 56 Replies latest jw friends

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  3Mozzies

  You will need to be signed in to youtube to see it, or go to the Bulgarian Website (link below)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupvRlG-i8g&

  Beat the pastors of Jehovah's Witnesses and wrecked their prayer house.

  Story from a Bulgarian Website - Google Translated.

  With fists and stones were smeared faces of two of the preachers of Jehovah's Witnesses

  Author: Dobromir Doskacharov
  
  Opponents of the sect stormed their church in Burgas distr Slaveykov with stones, a disfigured and severely wounded in the head

  Today at 19 hours began protesting sect Jehovah's Witnesses in Burgas, who three days before this gathering supporters on Facebook. Organizers are local voevodes VMRO, led by their leader George Drakaliev. The protest had to be held in complex Slaveykov before the Hall of the kingdom of Jehovah's Witnesses, but grew into a mass melee.
  
  Early protesters penetrated the high walls in the courtyard of the house of prayer and began to swear assembled the door people in suits. These were pastors. Prayer was begun 30 minutes earlier and was dedicated to their most important ritual - the crucifixion of Jesus.

  With shouts of "freaks!" and "Die!" several people dressed in black with hoods, attacked with fists first two preachers who stand at the door. Immediately afterwards, about two dozen protesters joined in a mass battle, which was tossing stones piratki and irons. The door of the building was broken and thrown away, and several piratki flew far into the hall for prayers, which were clustered posledvatelite of Jehovah.

  Hell for sekatata lasted about 15 minutes, when teams arrived MI - Burgas. Under police escort had spent two seriously injured yehovisti - with blurred people were evacuated by ambulance.
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  Heartofaboy

  Thugs. No way do the people in that building deserve to be punched & kicked by hooded thugs!

  It is awful to see.
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  mythreesons

  Thugs is right!!! I don't care how much you disagree with them, that was hard to watch. No one deserves that kind of treatment.
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  Gayle

  This is terrible!! Violence is not the way for sure. It will not deter JWs. Right to 'peaceful' assembly is still the right and best way. It would not have worked against me when I was among them. Right or wrong.

  Knowledge and exposure of their own facts will work at best.
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  zoiks

  Can't watch. How awful. Hatred and violence towards others is just wrong.
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  Violia

  Wow. That is bad. I've never heard of anything like that in the states.
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  3Mozzies

  It looks like the mob wasn't even arrested!
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  Violia

  I saw one ( teen- early 20's) who was leaned over a car and appeared to be cuffed.
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  jamiebowers

  I don't condone violence, but I wonder what the motivation of these guys was.

  Edited to add: I Googled Bulgaria and Jehovah's Witnesses and found a bunch of stuff. Remember there was an issue about jws becoming an approved religion there over the blood issue. Of course, the Watchtower side stepped the issue by using deceptive language. But there was also the ritualistic murder of a jw woman, and her neighbors believed it was due to her Watchtower involvement. The suspect who was arrested had Watchtower literature in his home, but I can't find anything to say he was a jw. But this article is interesting:

  http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=95517Members of the youth organization affiliated with Bulgaria's nationalist political party VMRO (Internal Macedonian Odrin Revolutionary Organization) staged Saturday a protest against the religious sect known as "Jehovah's Witnesses."

  The nationalists had burst into Sofia's "Universiada" hall, where the sect is holding its three-day long annual congress. The young nationalists declared themselves against the actions of the sect and appealed to the State to make it illegal.

  The mass protest demonstrations, previously announced by VMRO did not take place, however, due to a low turnout. Less than 10 VMRO members came to the rally while the "Jehovah's Witnesses" forum managed to gather several hundred people inside the "Universiada" hall.

  According to the Leader of the VMRO's Youth Movement, Angel Dzhambazki, the "Jehovah's Witnesses" were illegal in many European countries.

  "They use people's misery and faith, there are sick and miserable people and they promise them salvation, predict the end of the world and then make those people transfer their apartments and properties to some of the sect's leaders. This is almost a military-like organization for fraud and the sale of illusions," Dzhambazki stated.

  Some of the nationalists had managed to sneak inside the hall and were briefly detained by the Police for taking pictures without a permit.

  The "Jehovah's Witnesses" spokesperson has stated that the VMRO's accusations were lies, adding that the sect's members are known all over the world as peaceful people.

  The "Jehovah's Witnesses" congress is continuing Sunday with a dramatic presentation of the Bible while VMRO promised to stage another rally against t the sect.
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  Violia

  Yes I too wonder what was behind this. It looks like they attacked for a while and the jws put the door back up and they came back again and tore the door down.

  things that could provoke this kind of violence are protecting pedophiles, rapists and other such things, or the death of someone related to blood.

  I'd like to hear why they did this, but still to physically attack innocent jws just b/c they were the attendants, bad.