Protest at Kabul Bomb Site Turns Deadly
By MUJIB MASHAL and JAWAD SUKHANYARJUNE 2, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — A protest on Friday that began at the site of a huge bombing in Kabul earlier this week
and made its way to the gates of the Afghan presidential palace turned deadly, with security forces firing to disperse angry crowds trying to get inside.
"But among them, those who want to agitate and hurt public order, their issue is separate — they will not be allowed to use the people’s emotions against the people’s interest." Mr.
Ghani’s coalition partner, the government’s chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, put out a video message saying the administration was ready to sit down for talks with the protesters.
One group of about 400 protesters who came from the north of the city were particularly angry as a strong police
presence along their route repeatedly tried to prevent them from coming to the city center to join the protest.
They rammed military vehicles into crowds setting up protest tents," said Gul Haider, a former warlord from the northern part of the country
and military commander who joined the protests after he heard news of the clashes.
The Kabul police chief, Gen. Hassan Shah Frogh, said some of the protesters were carrying weapons and had fired at the police, wounding four officers.
The protests began peacefully on Friday morning, as hundreds of people from across the city chanted for
the government to resign as they gathered near the bombing site, in the city’s diplomatic quarter.
