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2019 Chilean State of Emergency (view source)
Revision as of 16:17, November 14, 2019
, 16:17, November 14, 2019→Alleged Human Rights violations
On October 30th, Jorge Ortiz Silva―a former Marxist guerrilla in the Revolutionary Left Movement and current chief of finance officer of the National Human Rights Institute―was caught feigning serious injury in a staged attack, which the mainstream media had earlier wrongly reported to have been a deliberate attack with several rubber bullets on the INDH official that was supposedly targeted for he was dressed in the corresponding uniform that included an orange vest and yellow helmet.<ref>[https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/30/tongo-no-secuencia-de-videos-demuestran-heridas-de-balines-a-observador-del-indh.shtml ¿Tongo? No. Secuencia de videos demuestran heridas de balines a observador del INDH ]</ref>
On October 30th, Jorge Ortiz Silva―a former Marxist guerrilla in the Revolutionary Left Movement and current chief of finance officer of the National Human Rights Institute―was caught feigning serious injury in a staged attack, which the mainstream media had earlier wrongly reported to have been a deliberate attack with several rubber bullets on the INDH official that was supposedly targeted for he was dressed in the corresponding uniform that included an orange vest and yellow helmet.<ref>[https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/30/tongo-no-secuencia-de-videos-demuestran-heridas-de-balines-a-observador-del-indh.shtml ¿Tongo? No. Secuencia de videos demuestran heridas de balines a observador del INDH ]</ref>
On November 10th, Brent McDonald from the [[New York Times]] uploaded a video in which he interviewed several protesters that had lost an eye to rubber bullets or anti-riot shotgun pellets in the nationwide protests.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000006795557/chile-protesters-shot-eye.html ‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters]</ref>.
That day, Mario Alberto Rozas-Córdova as commander of the Chilean police explained to reporters that anti-riot shotguns were only used as a last resort when his carabiniers were facing "imminent danger" from individuals that were "vandals and deliquents".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rUPqWdTlg Carabineros ordena uso "acotado" de escopetas antimotines en manifestaciones]</ref>.
==Yellow Vests==
==Yellow Vests==