An armed minority inside a protest can veto settlement deals for the whole country

Evidence

The Square rejected the deal outright. The Maidan, which now consisted of people willing to shoot or risk getting shot—surely a brave group but not one that could really be said to represent the entire country—wanted Yanukovych out now. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 513

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A tiny far-right fringe, not the population, dominated the Maidan’s militant core — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 492; Protest improves conditions by forcing majority recognition of minority grievances; A protest movement’s splintering makes its demands easy for rulers to ignore — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 302

Broader Connections

• A protest movement’s splintering makes its demands easy for rulers to ignore #complicates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 302
• Protest improves conditions by forcing majority recognition of minority grievances #contradicts (0.75)