The anger driving Colombia’s protest movement isn’t going away anytime soonThe anger driving Colombia’s protest movement isn’t going away anytime soon
Which began as an expense change proposition to help facilitate the strain of the pandemic on the economy and offset government funds finished with individuals rampaging to communicate their discontent.
Huge scope fights in Colombia are presently in their third week, and investigators have reported crime charges after a public cop was seen on video shooting and killing a 17-year-old in the city of Cali during the primary day of shows.
A week ago, Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office delivered a proclamation charging the cop, Luis Ángel Piedrahita Hernández, with irritated crime in association with the murdering of Marcelo Agredo Inchima. Official Piedrahita Hernández keeps up his guiltlessness and the case will go under the steady gaze of a criminal court.
The charges were declared around the same time that the top of Colombia’s National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, only four months into the new job, safeguarded the believability of the power – which has been furiously scrutinized for its graceless reaction to the fights – while conceding that police would be quick to perceive their flaws.
“Any demonstration that a cop submits illegal is strongly dismissed,” General Vargas said, addressing Spanish paper El País a week ago. “Whoever has singular duty, we trust that the full weight of the law falls on him. Also, we will be quick to request pardoning when it is resolved,” he added.
The organization the general manages has wound up in the center of a believability emergency, as reports of common freedoms infringement increment and global helpful gatherings including the United Nations voice concerns. On Saturday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) officially mentioned admittance to the nation to examine these maltreatment claims.
At any rate 42 individuals have passed on in the fights as per Colombia’s Ombudsman Office. Rights bunches say the loss of life could be higher. As per an aggregation by basic freedoms association Temblores, at any rate 2,387 instances of police viciousness have been accounted for.
The shooting of Marcelo Agredo Inchima
Marcelo Agredo Inchima was among the first losses that came about in quite a while, on a day when web-based media recordings of merciless restraint by police would touch off fierceness across a generally enraged country.
Seventeen-year-old Agredo and his sibling joined an enemy of duty charge rally on April 28, the primary day of fights in Cali — a city in southwest Colombia that would before long turn into the core of the development. Much to their dismay it would be the latest day he would be seen alive.
Retribution with deadly savagery in Colombia's delayed flood of fights
Retribution with deadly brutality in Colombia’s delayed flood of fights
Sensational web-based media film shot from an overhang in the Mariano Ramos area shows Agredo kicking a cop on a bike. Shots can be heard as individuals disperse in alarm. Agredo endeavors to flee by walking, yet the cop snatches his weapon and shoots, bringing down the young fellow.