Journalist among 25 killed as unrest escalates in Nicaragua
The death toll from anti-government protests in Nicaragua has risen to 25 and includes a journalist, amid accusations the national police are using live rounds to kill protesters.
According to human rights groups, 25 people have died, including one policeman, while 67 people have been shot by the police with live rounds or rubber bullets or beaten by Sandinista Youth and other pro-government groups. A further 43 people are reported to have “disappeared”.
The most serious charges are that snipers were placed in the national stadium to shoot at protesters holed up in Managua’s cathedral, who symbolically pulled down one of the massive brightly coloured metal Trees of Life erected in the capital by the vice-president, Rosario Murillo, the wife of the president, Daniel Ortega.
Five people die as anti-government protests spread across Nicaragua
Late on Saturday, local media said the journalist, Angel Gahona, was shot and killed during a live broadcast from Bluefields, a town on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.
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over the last 12 months. The police and military in Honduras have been very restrained and professional, to the point that they have refused to engage/escalate with the protesters, many non-Honduran. THAT is how a democracy is supposed to be. Not what passes for "democracy" under the Daniel Ortega and the FSLN (Castro lite), where life is cheap and what is important isn't the national well-being, but The Revolution!
And the snipers ... taking a page right out of the Chavista playbook.
The "Sandinista Youth"... where have we heard THAT before?
