AZNIC UPDATE 23-6-18

AZNIC UPDATE 23 JUN 2018

Note: the progressive Nicaragua regime violence getting some coverage in Mexican media.
Still unknown why other Central Americans not seeking asylum there, as so much closer than the EUA.
Gracias


Police and paramilitaries attack University of Nicaragua: 5 dead
Afp | Saturday, 23 Jun 2018 15:24

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/06/23/ofensiva-contra-universidad-de-nicaragua-deja-5-muertos-incluido-un-bebe-1020.html

A student rests within the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, after the police offensive. Afp Photo

Managua At least five people, including a 15-month-old boy, dead after simultaneous attacks by combined police and paramilitary forces in neighborhoods in Managua and Nicaragua's main university, a human rights group said.

"We are talking about five deaths, including the child, but there could be more," Georgina Ruiz, an activist with the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), told AFP that two of the deaths occurred in the area of ​​the National University. Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN).

Since midnight, police, heavily armed police and paramilitary forces have raided at least six neighborhoods in the east of the capital and on the grounds of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in the southwest, where dozens of students remain entrenched.

Two young people died in the university zone, while another 15 were injured, according to the CENIDH. The other deaths occurred in the neighborhoods.

The boy died when his mother took him to a place where they took care of him, at a time when the combined forces entered a neighborhood in the eastern sector of the capital to dismantle barricades, according to relatives told the press. "It was a bullet from the police, I saw them, they were policemen, nobody told me," the child's mother, Kenia Navarrete, told the 100% Noticias channel.

The official website of the government, El 19 Digital, said that those who "shot" the child were "criminals who are operating in the sector of the Polytechnic University (Upoli)".

"We reiterate our call for the immediate cessation of all forms of violence and repression, the Nicaraguan people deserve an opportunity for peace," OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro wrote on Twitter after condemning the death of the boy and the two young men. in the UNAN.

Before the attacks, the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, of civil society groups, suspended a march scheduled for the afternoon of this Saturday.

The protests began on April 18 against a reform of the social security system, but were expanded to demand justice for the deaths and the ousting of Ortega, whom they accuse of establishing, along with his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo, a autocratic and corrupt govenerment.

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