Confrontations between protesters and security forces leave a dead, dozen injured and 17 military retained during the national strike.
The security forces and protesters faced this Sunday in Ecuador, leaving as balance One deadat least ten injured and 17 retained military. The conflict occurred within the framework of the National unemployment convened by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE) in rejection of the increase of prices of Fuels.
The deceased was identified as Efraín Fuereza 46 -year -old indigenous community member, who lost his life in a Hospital in Cotacachi, in the province of Imbabura, just over 100 kilometers from Quito. Conaie denounced that Fuerez was “SHARPED WITH THREE DOCKS” of the armed forces.
In addition, a video shared by the organization shows how A group of military attacked two men on the groundone apparently injured and the other trying to help him. From the Ecuadorian army, meanwhile, they indicated that the protest He was not peaceful And they pointed out that a convoy of food for defined areas was attacked, causing that 12 military will be injured and 17 were kidnapped.
“Acts like these will not be unpunished. The Armed Forces condemn these acts. The life and safety of Ecuadorians is above all”warned the official statement.
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Exception status and curfew
To try to stop the mobilizations, President Daniel Noboa declared the Exception status in eight of the 24 provincesand in five of them a nightm. The president said that the Venezuelan criminal organization is behind the protests Aragua trainand warned that those who commit crimes could be accused of terrorism with sentences of Until thirty years.
For its part, Conaie denounced that military and police fired “Royal bullets, dynamite and used lethal armament” and that there was Cortes in Internet and cell phone servicesupposedly to silence complaints. The organization also requested the intervention of United Nations and the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)qualifying repression as a “Bloody hunting against the people”.
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Reactions and background
Former President Rafael Correa spoke on social networks about violence and shared a video of the moment of Fuerez’s death: “How our soldiers can be lent to these atrocities !! Noboa: you are a coward murderous”.
The organization Ecuador’s Human Rights Alliance He informed that since the beginning of the mobilizations, last Tuesday, there were 48 injured and 100 detaineeswarning about possible Serious human rights violations.
The Attorney General announced the opening of An investigation to clarify the death of fuelwithin a judicial process without imputations so far.
Source: Ambito
