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| At least one dead as more violence rings out in Nicaragua after nation-wide strike |
| 2018-07-15 |
| [PRESSTV] Catholic bishops on Saturday, July 14, secured the release of dozens of Nicaraguan student protesters trapped overnight inside in a church under a hail of gunfire from armed pro-government supporters, who killed at least one person inside, a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group said. The students took refuge inside the Divine Mercy Catholic Church on Friday after button men loyal to President Daniel Ortega began shooting at them at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Managua, prompting fresh criticism of the violent crackdown against opposition to his rule. Paulo Abrao of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said on Twitter that at least one youth had died in the church and three people were maimed. The mother of a woman who spent the night in the church told Rooters that one student had died. Nearly three months of festivities between pro-Ortega forces and demonstrators calling for his ouster have claimed almost 300 lives, in the bloodiest protests in Nicaragua since the country's civil war ended in 1990 The mother who reported a death said the students spent the night crouched on the church floor fearing for their lives as the button men fired shots that ricocheted inside the church. A delegation of Nicaragua's Catholic bishops negotiated the transfer of the students to Managua's metropolitan cathedral, where they were receiving medical care. The government could not immediately be reached for comment. |
| Posted by:Fred |