Video: Chile: detained girl “Help don’t let me, you know what they do to us”, Crackdowns on ongoing protests in Chile have resulted in the most serious human rights violations in 30 years, since the country was ruled by military dictatorship, according to the country’s official human rights body.
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The rights to life, physical and psychological integrity are seriously violated in Chile, denounced today Sergio Micco, director of the National Human Rights Institute (NHRI).
Micco presented in this capital an extensive NHRI report on the situation in the country during 2019, with special emphasis on what happened from October 18, when there unprecedented social unrest broke out, with strong repression against the demonstrators.
The document offers in five chapters a detailed analysis of what it describes as ‘serious violations’ exercised by state agents and warns that the social unrest is due to ‘decades of lack of response to social demands by the political system.’
It also emphasizes the complaints about the ‘indiscriminate use of pellets, torture with sexual connotations and eye injuries, which in the latter case exceeded 340 until November 30, including globe rupture, irreversible loss of vision due to trauma and other eye injuries.
Micco pointed out that ‘the State seriously failed in its duty to protect a series of human rights such as the right to life, personal integrity, private property, and freedom of movement, by failing to guarantee public order and citizen security.’
The report insists that the country is facing situations of serious and very numerous violations, which are not simple abuses or isolated excesses.
