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EFE – The so-called "Operation Cleanup" executed by the government of Nicaragua to remove obstacles in the streets and highways, installed by the opponents, has today left ten new victims, while the IACHR asked the state to guarantee the life of the population
Five cities in the Nicaraguan Pacific were scenes of what government critics have dubbed "Operation Cleaning", which consists of a offensive executed by so-called "combined forces", integrated by police, riot police, paramilitaries and paramilitaries, as well as state workers, to remove roadblocks and barricades
In Camilo Ortega neighborhood, in the town of Masaya, the clashes left six victims. Álvaro Leiva, executive secretary of the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH), told Acan-Efe
that the national police had not yet signed the death of four of his agents.
In Diriá, municipality of the department of Granada, the so-called "combined forces" forcibly removed their houses Almer Morales and Allan Morales (father and son) and executed them, continued
Meanwhile, two Other people died in the municipality of Catarina (Masaya), including a daughter of 10 years old, who was shot and died later for lack of medical care, he added.
] Leiva said that they also recorded "several" wounded, without specifying, and eleven paramilitaries who are detained by the civilian population.
Also, the activist reported that the police and parapolicías forcibly took the Masaya departmental hospital center and denied the attention of the victims.
In addition, they maintained Masaya under siege, so there was no "humanitarian evacuation channel" to transfer the wounded to Managua, which is 28 kilometers away.
Leiva also denounced that the "combined forces", after having "neutralized" the barricade demonstrators by force of arms, conducted a "door-to-door" hunting plan in search of opponents to their arrest.
A group of the Follow-up Mechanism for Nicaragua (Meseni) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which was to visit Masaya, suspended its trip for reasons of security. A member of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reported that they had been forbidden to leave the municipality of Nindirí, located between Managua and Masaya.
In Nindirí, where police and police officers were stationed, a group of Sandinista fanatics attacked the vehicle in which Bishop Abelardo Mata was traveling, confirmed Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes.
At the truck, in which Mata was traveling with his driver, who went unscathed, He broke the front and back windows, and he had punctures, said the magistrate in charge of the department. Esteli, Roberto Petray, near Bishop Mata.
Mata is one of the mediators and witnesses on behalf of the Episcopal Conference in the national dialogue between the government and the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, with which they hope to overcome the crisis This country, which has left at least 351 dead Since that time, hundreds of vehicles that left Managua to help the inhabitants of Masaya, the nerve center of demonstrations against the government and who were besieged by police and paramilitary forces, returned before arriving at the scene.
The students and "autoconvocados" were organized in Managua as soon as they met in the early hours of the day that Monimbó, the native district of Masaya, was in the grip of fighting, to travel the 28 kilometers that separate the two cities and thus show support and assistance.
However, before the arrival of the caravan, a group of police and paratroopers heavily armed and in full coordination blocked the entrances to Masaya, according to Acan-Efe
Nobody could cross their checkpoints, neither journalists – "for their own safety" – neither citizens nor ecclesiastical delegations.
The caravan managed to travel 21 of about 28 kilometers separating Masaya from Managua, but there, facing the proximity of the police and the para-police barricades as a whole, they chose to stop and to return, after a strong debate between them, whether they continue or not
] Nicaragua guarantees the life of its population
"The state seems to ignore the dialogue. # [19459004Nicaragua must guarantee the lives of people and respect the law, "said Antonia Urrejola, rapporteur for Nicaragua to the IACHR, in a message via Twitter.
] The protests against Ortega began on April 18, due to failed social security reforms and became a demand for the president's resignation, after eleven years in power, with charges of abuse and corruption against him.
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