Sunday, May 1, 2011

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Violent repression of Police in the May 1 march in Bogota.

Foto: estudiante herido por el ESMAD y atendido por manifestantes

Thousands of people gathered at various points in the streets of Bogotá in the morning. Students, workers, farmers and hundreds of citizens marched in the streets of the city, raising his voice in protest against the aggressions that the national government has committed against the basic rights of Colombians over the past wanted to implement reforms . On the streets you could hear one voice the need for quality education, decent work, humanitarian agreement, land reform, among many other claims.
The rally was escorted by side and Across the street by riot police officers and Power Available in various parts of the mobilization of anti-riot agents of the National Police launched grenades to scatter protesters wounded. When the end of the march was entering the square, riot police officers fired these shells that wounded many young people who came to this place in a peaceful manner. To spend a few minutes, the agents surrounding the Plaza de Bolivar made an onslaught against those who slept in the square and listened to the closing speech of the day mobilization, in this place a young man suffered a fracture in his leg to the police threw grenades.

As reported Notiagen , Gustavo Gallardo, the Commission on Human Rights and the Patriot March Town Meeting, at 6 pm there were 61 people arrested who had been transferred to the Permanent Justice Unit (UPJ) of the District. Of these, 29 are minors and have been transferred to other detention centers awaiting their guardians come to liberate them. At around 10:30 pm, and have begun to release some peers, but still several people arrested in the UPJ, further alleges that several youths arrested in armored vehicles and police cars which have not been officially registered as detainees.


University Press shares a complaint that several colleagues have been made by some social networking and virtual media. Yuri Neira, the boy's father killed by riot police six years ago, Nicolas Neira, was detained by police today in trying to stop the march to the retention of a young demonstrator, as reported, at 10:10 pm, his lawyer Pedro Mahecha, said Yuri was in solitary confinement cell in Palquemado URI. He was denied a blanket, eating food and drink and was released around 9:30 am on May 2. Yuri denounced UNIVERSITY PRESS microphones on the same day of the march was a call threatening him with death. This is 25 times that Nicholas's father has been arrested, has had 4 attacks and it was once exiled.



As unfortunately a few years ago and violent acts are part of the event working Labor Day Bogota street. The mood among the security forces and protesters constantly changing, as they pass in front of them the trade unions, workers and pensioners and riot police were preparing to receive the street after 19 students in public universities and collective juveniles. UNIVERSITY PRESS On this occasion, she witnessed the Bogota police fired point-blank against a protester who accompanied the university district, in front Murillo Toro on Seventh Avenue, the shot that appeared to be an element not dispersive, unless the contrary spell, impact on the left lower leg of the demonstrator, seriously wounding him and compromising the subject's leg.

also a student of the Faculty of Economics, U. National reported that he was wounded by a stun grenade that was thrown into the body slightly wounding him in the legs and one of the Faculty of Veterinary and from school and according to some sources there were at least 70 injured in this event between which some had already been injured by riot police on the previous Wednesday without discussion.


Finally the police prevented the entry of the other demonstrators were missing for entering the Plaza Bolivar, and those who remained were laced with tear gas, stun grenades.


We will be watching the state of health of two students who are very serious after being attacked by riot police.



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