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An offensive by government forces in villages in southern Nicaragua left at least 10 people dead and 20 injured on Sunday, amid a spate of violence that claimed 280 lives in three months, according to the human rights body. l & # 39; man. ] Six of the dead are civilians, including two minors, and four riot police [19659003] according to a preliminary report of the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPDH).
"This is a preliminary report Alvaro Leiva, president of the ANPDH, told reporters
that the combined forces of police and paramilitaries have carried out an operation to remove the barricades erected by the inhabitants. Masaya and the neighboring municipalities of Diriá Diriomo Niquinohomo Catarina and the district of Monimbó [19659013
"We are attacked by police and hooded paraphoras and armed with AK and machine guns in our native district of Monimbó", denounced Álvaro Gómez, a resident of the city, in the early hours of the day
The situation is serious, we must open a corridor to evacuate the wounded, we are dying, "warns Leiva desperately.
For his part, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes denounces that the government forces penetrated and stole the house Catarina and He asked the government to "respect the temples" and stop the attacks against the population.
Opposition protests began on April 18 against a reform of the pension system, but they resulted in a widespread demand for the removal of power. President Ortega, 72, who has governed since 2007 for the third consecutive term.
His opponents accuse him of establishing a dictatorial regime that controls all The Secretary of the IACHR, Paulo Abrao, said on Twitter that he was aware of " the violent repression of Masaya towns, "said IACHR Secretary Paulo Abrao. The state seems to ignore the dialogue "with the opposition"
Before the siege, the civil society organizations addressed Masaya from Managua [19659005] in a caravan of solidarity, but they returned to the starting point 10 kilometers before the arrival due to the presence of paramilitaries, according to the student leader Lesther Alemán.
For its part, the site oficialista El 19 Digital, announced as "territories liberated from dams" the cities where the government forces conducted the so-called "cleaning operation".
The incursion into these communities occurred in the midst of the offensive that the government began in early July to "clean up" the barricades erected by protesters in the main highways and towns in the country, as part of the demonstrations that have killed about 280 people since April 18.
Between Friday and Saturday, government forces launched a fierce attack on students holed up at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), southeast of Managua, an action that resulted in the death of two students.
Episcopal Conferences are mediators and witnesses in the dialogue between the Government and the opposition Civic Alliance, looking for an outcome to the crisis that the country is living after the wave of protests in demand to leave the power of Ortega
in the dialogue table to advance the elections from 2021 to 2019, but the president rejected this possibility.
"We have witnessed the lack of political will of the government to honestly dialogue and seek real processes that lead us to a true democracy, repeatedly refusing to approach […] the program of democratization", said the Catholic bishops. a statement on Saturday night.
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