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Estonia rocked by a second night of rioting · 2007-04-28 17:07
Estonia was rocked by a second night of rioting on Friday as violence broke out in the capital, Tallinn, and the eastern town of Johvi.
In Tallinn, several hundred rioters broke up into small groups and ran amok across the city centre, fighting running battles with police, destroying property and looting shops.
And in Johvi, in the eastern, largely Russian province of Ida-Virumaa, riot police were called in after an estimated 200 youths went on the rampage, overturning cars and smashing windows.
It was the second night in succession that violence broke out between police and Estonia’s large ethnic-Russian minority.
“It’s not as big as last night, but rather than there being one big group of rioters there are now lots of little ones,” a police spokeswoman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Thursday’s riots were sparked by a decision by the nationalist government to remove a controversial Red Army war memorial and graves from their location in central Tallinn.
Estonian nationalists see the memorial as a reminder of the Soviet occupation of their state, while Russians see it as a symbol of their sacrifice in the fight against Nazism.
One man was killed and more than 50 others injured in the running street fights . Shops and bars were looted across the city’s historic centre, and police made more than 400 arrests.
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