Chile protests: UN to investigate claims of human rights abuses after at least 19 deaths
The UN High Commission on Human Rights is sending a team to Chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against demonstrators, amid a swell of furious street protests over inequality, falling wages and the rising cost of education and healthcare.
“Having monitored the crisis from the beginning I have decided to send a verification mission to examine reports of human rights violations in Chile,” the high commissioner and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced on Twitter.
Since the unrest erupted on 19 October, the military and Carabineros police forces have made 2,410 arrests throughout the country and 535 people have been injured, according to Chile’s human rights commission (INDH).
At least 19 people have died in the violence - though activists claim the number is higher.
The INDH confirmed that it was compiling 55 legal cases related to five homicides and eight instances of sexual violence involving both police and military agents. The victims of rape allegedly included several minors.
At: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/24/chile-protests-human-rights-un-investigation
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has ordered an inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses during this week's massive protests across Chile.
Bachelet served as president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018.
Her father, Air Force Brigadier General Alberto Bachelet, was killed by the Pinochet dictatorship in 1974 - a regime that current President Sebastián Piñera has lauded in the past.
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What was done to her entire family, the torture of her, her mother, and the deadly level of torture needed to kill her father should NEVER be forgotten. To think the supporter of Pinochet should rev up the same machinery again and point it against Chilean progressives tells anyone this should be blocked as soon as possible, somehow, rather than letting it drag on, taking down the country and its heart into hell all over again. What a shame the powerful fascist element still exists there.
Glad to see someone mentioned the horrific carabineros again. They created such monstrous history in Pinochet's time they should never be forgotten, and certain should not continue to exist now. They should be completely revamped and and directed to serve far higher purpose, and put their violence and treachery behind them totally.
Carabineros, burning books for
the fascists.
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Carmen Gloria Quintana moved to Canada, has undergone countless surgeries since she and her companion in pain, Rodrigo Rojas, a photographer, were thrown into a ditch, doused in gasoline by carabineros, and burned. Rodrigo succumbed to his monstrous suffering several days after, in the hospital.
