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Government supporters violently invaded the San Sebastin Basilica in Diriamba, where clerics came to support a group of protesters who retreated on Sunday to protect themselves from the onslaught of government forces. 19659002] "We no longer want roadblocks", "murderers", "liars", "sons of putres", Republicans supported in bademblies led by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes and the late Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag in his arrival at Diriamba, reports a AFP team.
The novice, the cardinal and the bishops arrived in a caravan of Mangua to help release the people imprisoned inside the bottom. among them, volunteer doctors who have been imprisoned since Sunday in the church after the violent invasion.
Religious were surrounded by government supporters when they arrived at the temple, while in the neighborhood there were dozens of paramilitaries. we do not have any weapons, the weapon here the prayer, they attacked from the outside, "said AFP, a member of the medical staff who was at the Inside the basilica, wearing a lab coat and the face covered with a shirt
Among the victims of the aggression are the auxiliary bishop of Mangua, Silvio Bez, as well as domestic and foreign journalists, who covered the eyes
Bez said that "what our people suffer" and "much more serious" than what happened to him and reiterated that the 39, call of the Church to "a cessation of violence".
"They had a prepared crowd p" says Reverend Edwin Romn, who was wounded in one arm
After the troubles, Bez reported that the people who were in Baslica were "liberated."
One of the members of the delegation told AFP by telephone that the group had returned to Mangua and denounced the incident to human rights groups.
– "They do not respect the bishops" –
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" painful that the human rights of Nicaraguans are not respected by the armed groups ", a lack of respect for the bishops "said Alvaro Leiva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPDH).
The bishops visited after the death of at least 14 people on Sunday in a violent attack by paramilitary and riot troops in the towns of Diriamba and Jinotepe, in the department of Carazo (southwest).
Ortega's supporters also invaded a church in Jinotepe, where they caused damage and insulted the parents.
Nicaraguan Chancellor Denis Monca (19659002) "The State of Nicaragua (…) will make use of its constitutional duty, its institutional obligation to maintain order, security and peace", said Moncada, who described the protests of the opposition "acts of terrorism committed against Nicaraguans," as "kidnappings, extortions and murders."
Shock police clashes and paramilitaries with demonstrators of the Opposition stoked after Ortega ruled out early Saturday to preempt the elections.
The Catholic Church, which mediates the government and the civic alliance, proposed to anticipate the elections from 2021 to March 2019 in order to (19659002) But the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference (CEN) has warned that she "seriously badesses the continuity of dialogue", which has been suspended three times since the beginning. in mid-May.
Washington, the OAS announced that it will discuss Wednesday the situation in Nicaragua at a meeting of the Permanent Council during which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR) will report on the work of MESENI, a mechanism created to follow the recommendations of this committee.
The secretary of the IACHR, Paulo Abrao, who is attending the session, asked Sunday an international community to witness the "criticism" of the situation in the country.
Gunmen clashed with police on Sunday in Jinotepe and Diriamba, overthrowing barricades erected by the opposition, provoking an exchange of gunfire, witnesses and defense groups said. According to the authorities, two police officers and two pre-government paramilitaries were among the victims.
The mechanics dismantled the barricades. and opened routes for the circulation of over 350 Central American cargo furs that had been standing for more than one ms on the blocked Jinotepe Road.
– Injured and Detained –
Incursions to Diriamba, 45 km from Mangua and Jinotepe, 40 km, also leave dozens wounded and about twenty inmates
. The social security reform triggered the protests, but they spread after the government crackdown and now the opponents demand the departure of Ortega, whom they accuse of having instituted with their wife and vice -president, Rosario Murillo, a dictatorship marked by corruption and nepotism
Faced with thousands of followers in Mangua, Ortega, a 72-year-old former guerrilla who has reigned since 2007 for the third consecutive term, excluded anticipating the elections on Saturday.
In order to increase the pressure, the Civic Alliance called a march for next Thursday and a general strike on July 13, the second called in the crisis, after a June 14, which took a lot
But the government is preparing a counter-offensive with the sweet celebration – on an undisclosed date – of an event before the 39th anniversary of the revolution, celebrated on July 19.
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