This Saturday a group of migrant and human rights organizations gathered outside the Colombian embassy in Chile to demonstrate against police abuse recorded in the last days of protests in Colombia.
Representatives of the National Coordinator of Migrants, of the Migrants Roots of Resistance movement, made up of Colombian migrants, arrived at the call and were accompanied by Senator Alejandro Navarro as leader of the Latin American Forum on Human Rights (FOLADH).
For Navarro, “there are 13 deaths in less than 48 hours and police brutality has to be condemned, just as we have demanded for the condemnation of the brutality of Carabineros de Chile in citizen protests. There can be no silence, silence is complicit. I hope that President Sebastián Piñera will make the necessary complaint, just as he does with other Latin American countries.”
The PRO parliamentarian commented that “we are going to dedicate the first half hour of the extraordinary session of the Senate human rights committee on Tuesday, for a presentation and analysis of what is going on in Colombia. Human rights are universal and when there are brutal deaths at the hands of police and there is impunity, it is a right and a duty to denounce it.”
In the same line, Héctor Pujols, of the National Coordinator of Immigrants, indicated that “Chile is one of the guarantor countries of the Peace Agreement signed in 2016 and yet what we have seen has been the total forgetfulness on the part of Chile. That is why we call on Chancellor Allamand to rule on what has happened in Colombia in recent years.”
Meanwhile for Miguel Samacá, of the Migrants Roots of Resistance movement, he argued that “the day of September 9th, was simply to demonstrate the investigation of the Colombian people after years of abuse of police power that cost the life of the taxi driver and lawyer, Javier Ordoñez. However, it is not the only massacre, because on that day 10 people were killed at the hands of the police in Bogota, and in Cali.”
