This year the right-wing groups, left-wing radicals and government supporters held their own Polish Independence Day parades in Warsaw to push for their visions of what sort of country Poland should be.
However, the parade turned violent when the riot police confronted right-wing nationalists.
The right wing groups were not happy because they feel the government has liberal values imported from Europe that are ruining Poland’s Catholic traditions.
They are unhappy with issues like gay rights or LGBT rights.
A Reuters correspondent saw policemen beating protesters with truncheons, forcing the rioters to disperse.
Police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said, “The police used rubber bullets, pepper spray, stun grenades and truncheons.”
Poland was independent on November 11, 1918.
Anyway I wonder why did some people waved Ukraine flags during the Polish Independence Day celebration as in the first picture?
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Demonstrators are seen on the streets as violence breaks out at a parade celebrating Poland’s national holiday in Warsaw November 11, 2012. The police used truncheons to try to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists on Sunday who were pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete. REUTERS/Stefan Romanik/Agencja Gazeta
Demonstrators are seen on the streets as violence breaks out at a parade celebrating Poland’s national holiday in Warsaw November 11, 2012. The police used truncheons to try to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists on Sunday who were pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete. REUTERS/Stefan Romanik/Agencja Gazeta
A photographer runs to safety as riot police confronts demonstrators as violence breaks out at a parade celebrating Poland’s national holiday in Warsaw November 11, 2012. The police used truncheons to try to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists on Sunday who were pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
Riot police confronts demonstrators as violence broke out at a parade celebrating Poland’s national holiday in Warsaw November 11, 2012. The police used truncheons to try to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists on Sunday who were pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
A big explosion caused a huge fire in an Indianapolis neighbourhood in the Richmond Hill subdivision damaging 80 houses.
2 people were killed and at least 7 people were injured in the incident that happened at about 11 p.m. on Saturday.
2 houses were totally destroyed while another 31 other houses were so badly damaged that they may have to be demolished.
About 200 other people evacuated from the neighbourhood.
The explosion could be felt at least three miles away.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the explosion.
This is disaster and I am very sad and sorry for all the victims, their families and friends.
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This aerial photo shows the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Indianapolis. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)
This aerial photo shows the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Indianapolis. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)
This aerial photo shows the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Indianapolis. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)
This aerial photo shows the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Indianapolis. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)
FILE-This Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, file photo, aerial photo shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough New York after a fire. The total economic damage from Superstorm Sandy could run as high as $50 billion, according to new estimates from the forecasting firm Eqecat. That would make it the second-costliest storm in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
Firefighters work the scene where an explosion has killed two people and damaged more than a dozen homes in the Richmond Hill subdivision, late Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)