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A Nicaraguan human rights group claims that government forces killed 10 people and wounded 20 others in an operation in southern Nicaragua on Sunday, July 15, 2007.
L & # 39; Nicaraguan Human Rights Association said two children were among the dead. The authorities did not comment.
"We were attacked by the national police and armed AK-47s and machine guns in our own village, Monimbo," said a resident at the French news agency.
Sunday violence was launched in the city of Masaya
Human rights defenders and religious leaders say the government ignored calls for dialogue with protesters
Protests against the president Daniel Ortega announced in April that he planned to reform the country's pension system
Ortega subsequently canceled his plans, but protests continued and the government's crackdowns on these acts made 270
rejected calls for early election. [vm/jm]
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