In a speech to the nation on Friday, he sternly warned independence supporters that security forces would not tolerate any efforts to secede from the union.

Over the next few days, 3,000 independence supporters were arrested, all over the island.

The third, also an independence supporter, is an ethnic Ukrainian.

Despite the lack of official confirmation, thousands of independence supporters took to the streets, waving flags and signs.

I say that an important portion of his voters are independence supporters, and so he must feel this pressure on him.

The violence has driven many independence supporters and their leaders underground.

Following these two attacks, large crowds (20,000 during the night, more than 50,000 in the morning) of independence supporters gathered around the Supreme Council building.

These events are considered some of the main factors that led to the overwhelming victory of independence supporters in a referendum on February 9, 1991.

Thus many independence supporters moved to the Popular Democratic Party as a means to an end to stop statehood.

About 70 people were also wounded in the rioting here in the regional capital as several hundred independence supporters fought running battles with the police.