The top law

enforcement official for Viktor Yanukovych, the disgraced former Ukrainian

president who is now a fugitive fleeing mass murder charges, had planned an

even greater bloodbath to suppress anti-government protests, according to a

member of parliament who said he has documents to prove his allegations.Hennadii Moskal, a

member of parliament with Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna Party and Ukraine’s

former deputy interior minister, said the plan called for surrounding Kyiv’s

Independence Square with rooftop snipers whose mission would have been to wipe

out the anti-government EuroMaidan protesters. Moskal said he obtained

documents outlining the plan and released part of them publicly on his Facebook

page in order to ensure that law enforcement officers bring criminal charges

against Yanukovych and others responsible for the plan.

Whatever the aim of

Yanukovych and former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, whose whereabouts

is also unknown, at least part of the plan seems to have been implemented.

Snipers working behind police lines on the south side of Independence Square

killed at least 88 protesters from Feb. 18-20 before a temporary ceasefire took

hold. Yanukovych signed a compromise agreement with opposition leaders on Feb.

21, but then fled Kyiv on Feb. 22 after his security and law enforcement

officers abandoned him. Parliament impeached him the same day. An arrest

warrant charging him with mass murder was issued.