Santiago de Chile: Amid complaints and protests about police excesses against the social movement and the president himself faced with a constitutional accusation for that cause, Chile today remembers the World Human Rights Day, Prensa Latina publishes.
The South American country is the center of attention on this date, pointed by national and international human rights defenders, jurists, organizations of health professionals, and international personalities such as the Nobel Peace Prize, Rigoberta Menchú.
Numerous reports account for flagrant and systematic violations of human rights, supported by figures that include 25 dead, of which at least five are directly responsible for military or police, and more than 3,000 injured, many of them seriously.
These include more than 300 people, according to data from the National Institute of Human Rights (NHRI), with serious eye injuries that in dozens of cases lead to the loss of one of the eyes or total blindness as happened to young Gustavo Gatica and Fabiola Campillai.
The agency also processed more than 700 legal actions since the popular mobilizations began on October 18, among which 544 correspond to torture and cruel treatment, and 108 for sexual violence, while of the thousands of detainees, more than one thousand reported violation of their rights.
The social movement set out once again a mass concentration to denounce this situation, at the Plaza de la Dignidad (Baquedano), center of the protests in this capital.
The basic claim will be justice and reparation for the victims of such violations, effective measures by the authorities so that events of that magnitude are not repeated and that those responsible are prosecuted.
For the morning of this Tuesday, an address by President Sebastián Piñera from the Palacio de la Moneda is also announced, to remember the date, which is described as nonsense, at least, by opponents and the vast social movement, which is already eight weeks of protests.
Coincidentally, this Tuesday will begin to be analyzed in the Senate a constitutional accusation against former Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick, focused on his responsibility for repeated human rights violations since the beginning of protests on October 18.
But the violations of human rights in Chile are not only a problem caused by the current social and political crisis in the country, as the families of more than one thousand detainees disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet also continue to wait for the truth and justice.
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