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Chilean student protest deteriorates into chaos
Thursday, 27 September 2012 21:46
The following article is about a high school and university students marched in Santiago in Thursday, 27 September to express their demands to improved education Chilean. Police estimated about 5,000 people but the students said 70,000 people. The march was organized by the Coordinating Assembly for Secondary Students (ACES), the National Coordination of Secondary Students (CONES) and the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech).
The march began near Santiago’s Estación Central
along La Alameda. After the march continuous along España Street and when
the people arrived to the end of the route started the violence , however, and
the crowd was soon engulfed by a medley of tear gas and water cannons from the
police barricade. In this moment the march could not and he crowd dispersed along side streets and continuous the violence.
Javiera Campos Menendez, another human rights
observer, seconded Disqueto's opinion: "(There was) very little respect
for human rights today. We have just
witnessed three completely illegal arrests of protesters for no motive,"
she said.
After, 23 police were wounded, and 106
protesters had been arrested, the majority of which were minors. Something similar happened in the marches of
Valparaiso and Concepcion.
Up to and during the protest, ACES also called for a boycott of municipal
elections in October. "We want to convince citizens to realize
that changes come through social movements and not elections," ACES
spokesperson Eloisa González told.
Very intereseting. I could not be there but I wanted. Without fighting for our rights we are not going to have changes.
ResponderEliminarOh!! you found this news in the newspaper that the teacher showed?
ResponderEliminarGood... Is very sad for me, because I would liked to go. Is fantastic that to show other countries what happens with the Chilean student