41 During the dispersal of a demonstration in 2011, police reportedly used rubber bullets to target individuals who did not pose any threat and who were not putting up any resistance to police actions. In an interview with the local NGO one protester recalled how he permanently lost the sight in one eye, when several shots were fired at him from a line of Special Forces officers,. He was hit with 8 bullets, fired from a five to six metres distance. He heard a bursting noise near his eye, immediately lost sight in his left eye, and felt pain. The NGO reported that police and Special Forces fired rubber bullets from a distance of two to three metres at demonstrators who were restrained on the ground and fired while sat on moving vehicles at fleeing demonstrators’ heads and faces.