Two dead during a day of mass march against Ortega in Managua

Managua.- Two dead and 11 wounded left the scene on Saturday as thousands of Nicaraguans marched in Managua against President Daniel Ortega, and in memory of the miners who are among the more than 220 dead in two months and a half of government repression.

One of the victims is a 23-year-old street vendor who died when a group that separated from the march was attacked with bullets when he was crossing a property occupied by hooded and heavily armed civilians in the southwest The other deceased is a man who helped entrenched students at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) where a barricade was shot to death by Ortega forces at a time when, near there, the march began, according to human rights groups. "Confirmed two deaths, one in the march and another in the UNAN" said an activist of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh).

An AFP team in the so-called "Flower March" could see when the young man, who was selling ribbons to protesters, fell with the bullet in his head. A few hours later, he died in the hospital.

The march convened by the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy – civil society – ended at the roundabout Jean Paul Genie, but those who left the road wanted to support UNAN students.

The police say they investigate the incident, but their version is that people expelled "with firearms" from people who occupied the land 200 meters from the roundabout

"They kill children"

With flowers and flags, defying fear, thousands of Nicaraguans attended the "Flower March" in Managua and other cities as Leon, Masaya and Grenada, to seek justice for the score of the miners killed in the wave of violence.

This was the first big march since the big demonstration of May 30th on the occasion of Mother's Day, which caused 18 deaths as a result of an attack by the police, paramilitaries and paramilitaries. "I want to liberate my Nicaragua It hurts that children like me are dead, but we must continue to fight until the dictator comes out," said a student of 15 years. with balaclavas and carrying a Nicaraguan flag – blue and white – and a mortar spear.

F Among the deaths of children who shocked the country, there is that of a five-month-old baby, burned in the fire of his home, and that of 39, a child of one's head in a street of Managua. Their families blamed the police.

"We denounce the mbadacre perpetrated against the Nicaraguan people by this genocidal government". What's wrong is that they kill children, "said Carmen Martinez, 64, dressed in white and blue, with red flowers in her hands.

At the mbad in the cathedral, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, cried out: "Not one more death, stop the violence! We can not continue to shed more blood of brothers, we must to react by denouncing and outraging us, but never to harm evil. "

"We do not want more tyrants"

The demonstrations ts claim the resignation of Ortega, an ex-left guerrilla The 72-year-old man came to power with the popular uprising that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and returned to the government by vote in 2007.

They accuse him of having ridden with him wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo, the nepotis mo, a dictatorship and unleashing a brutal repression.

"I have always walked, and today more than for our deaths, for children, I feel the murders of Ortega and Rosario, I was in 1979 against Somoza and now against the new dictatorship, "he badured. Cecila Cruz, 67 years old.

The march was suspended a week ago due to the violent incursion of pro-government forces in several cities, and the reprogrammed Civic Alliance taking advantage of the presence of From the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

The two organizations asked the government, on Twitter, to guarantee the right to freedom of expression, badembly and demonstration.

The Presidents of the Central American Integration System (SICA), meeting in Santo Domingo, urged dialogue in Nicaragua and launched an "urgent appeal" for the "immediate cessation of violence".

With the mediation of the Catholic Church, the government and the Alliance resumed Monday a dialogue that is stalled because Ortega, whose third consecutive term ends in January 2022, does not respond to the proposal to advance the elections of 2021 March 2019.

"We want in Nicaragua no more tyrants, no more criminals or more violence," said Báez at the mbad .

The Ortega government accuses the protesters of a US-backed "coup attempt" "delinquents" and "gang members".