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''“Instead of likening the demonstrations to a ‘state of war’ and calling protestors enemies of the State, stigmatizing them in a generalized way in an attempt to justify abuses against them, President Piñera’s government should listen to them and give a serious response to their legitimate grievances”'', said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.
 
''“Instead of likening the demonstrations to a ‘state of war’ and calling protestors enemies of the State, stigmatizing them in a generalized way in an attempt to justify abuses against them, President Piñera’s government should listen to them and give a serious response to their legitimate grievances”'', said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.
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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>
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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 anti-riot shotgun pellets on the INDH official that was supposedly shot in the leg despite wearing the corresponding NGO 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>.  
 
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>.  
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