Chileans tell TRT World about the alleged abuses they have suffered at the hands of security forces
In Chile a proposed hike to the metro price quickly evolved to reveal inequality as mass mobilisations engulfed the South American nation.There have been allegations of excessive force and abuses ranging from beatings and torture to sexual violence - with 18 cases registered at the hands of state forces in Chile.
Some reports say as many as 7,000 arrests have been made and 200 of those are minors who were involved in social movements. “What I was doing was taking part in a peaceful march and it finished at 8pm because it was curfew. So I was returning to my home. A masked anti-government protester stands by a burning street barricade in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019.
“It constitutes a very strong form of aggression as people can’t escape from a cell and to be subjected to tear gas is torment. It’s simply torture." “Once we were there helping injured people as curfew fell. The police stopped us. They treated us very violently. They questioned whether we really were studying or not,” he says.
David says he has seen people with “contusions”, which he says is an injury received from a blunt object.David says Chileans see the same tactics from the state forces, “starting out with beatings, with truncheons, which are blunt force weapons, deterrents like tear gas, pepper spray and firearms with pellets both rubber and metal ones”.
She says then things took a turn for the worse, as police started to fire tear gas without discretion. "I heard at least 10 shots in total," she says. Natalia was quickly seen, given anaesthesia and the wound was closed. Her friend knew one of the medics at the hospital, helping to avoid the queues. "Tear gas cannot be thrown either upwards or towards the body, only towards the ground, so as not to hurt to people," she says.
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