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in three months, the Catholic Church said.
"They attack Monimbó, bullets hit the church of María Magdalena, where the priest is a refugee," wrote on Twitter the auxiliary archbishop of Managua, Silvio Baez.
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" Daniel Ortega must stop the mbadacre, I beg the people of Monimbó to save their lives! "
According to Silvio Báez, government forces include paramilitaries and clashes.
More than 1,000 men armed with machine guns opened fire on this city of 100,000 inhabitants, located 30 kilometers south of the capital , Managua, said residents of the Agence France Presse.
"The houses are being machine-gunned irresponsibly, the message is that if you put the head, they kill you, it's a message from terror, "said Álvaro Leiva, secretary of the Human Rights Association of Nicaragua (ANPDH).
In this Tuesday 's operation, in which snipers elite were observed, concentrated in the indigenous district of Monimbó, where the population erected barricades of up to two meters.
"They attack us with large caliber weapons, it is the only One of the most violent attacks that Masaya ever launched, one can hear from explosions and machine gun fire, "said Cristian Fajardo, one of the leaders of the student movement.
Young men resist "with mortars and stones," he continues.
Monimbó's young men, their faces covered in shirts, were protecting themselves from the gunshots behind the trenches, where they claimed that they were ready to die for a "free Nicaragua".
"We will not let them in here, if we have to die for our country, we will die," they said in a video made in the middle of the attack
"Extermination, mbadacre, genocide and murder. They intend to commit ". Masaya Ortega is conducting a criminal war against his people, "condemned the president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), Vilma Núñez.
The town of Masaya has declared itself in rebellion since the early April 18, demonstrations against the government that require the removal of power from Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo.
Masaya is the only rebel stronghold that the government has failed to double in his operations in recent weeks.
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> must end The world is watching.United States, Francisco Palmieri, Undersecretary of at Western Hemisphere Affairs, asked President Ortega "energetically" "not to attack Masaya". –
July 17, 2018
"The continuing violence and bloodshed promoted by the Nicaraguan government must stop immediately." The world is watching, "tweeted Palmieri
The action of the government forces is part of the so-called" clean-up operation "that the paramilitaries began to clear the streets a few weeks ago, blocked by protesters who claimed the departure of Ortega, a 72-year-old former guerrilla who has ruled since 2007.
The conflict in the city killed them this weekend, according to CNN.
Since April 18, when demonstrations against the government of Daniel Ortega, the country is experiencing a climate of permanent conflict.The protests, fueled by the government pension reform, increased with state repression and turned into a movement against President Ortega, who is in power U. 2007.
On Tuesday (17), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced the fact that the law on terrorism recently approved by the Nicaraguan parliament could be used to criminalize peaceful demonstrations taking place in the country.
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