Colombian protest demands DefMin resignation

STORY: Colombia Unrest - Colombian protest demands DefMin resignation

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TYPE: Spanish/ Natsound

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

STORY NUMBER: 4327547

DATELINE: 24 May 2021 - Bogota

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bogota - 24 May 2021

1. Hard hats laid on the ground, representing deaths during national protests

2. Sign with the number of victims during protests

3. Banner asking for the resignation of Defence Minister Diego Molano

4. Various of hard hats sitting on crosses with the name of victims

5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) No name given, demonstrator:

"In Congress is being promoted a Motion of Reprobation (resignation and trial) of (Defence Minister Diego Molano), due to the crimes committed by the public (armed) forces against the Colombian people. This is something we find sensible and have been asking for a time. Not only a Motion of Reprobation, but a public resignation and trial against Diego Molano, who is one of the most responsible for the murdered people, women being raped, of those massacred, violated and mutilated by the anti-riot police and national police."

6. Various of cyclists with wreaths

7. Demonstrator speaking with a microphone

8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jhon Salamanca, Demonstrator:

"We have a genocide by this narco-paramilitary dictatorship, and this trial should not be held only against to the terrorist and genocidal (Diego) Molano, but against all these people (in the government)."

9. Demonstrator holding wreath chanting as demonstrators chant back UPSOUND (Spanish): "And where are the disappeared!; the State killed them!"

STORYLINE:

Demonstrators protested outside the Colombian Senate on Monday, demanding the representatives dismiss and put on trial Defence Minister Diego Molano, arguing that dozens of people were killed in anti-government protests.

Molano was scheduled to appear before the Senate on Monday, as he faced a Motion of Reprobation. He is further set to appear in Congress on Tuesday.

The protests started in late April after President Ivan Duque proposed a plan to increase taxes that would have affected millions of people whose incomes have decreased during the pandemic.

They have since turned into a general outcry against growing poverty and inequality in Colombia, where the unemployment rate doubled last year.

The demonstrations have included dozens of marches through large cities that have sometimes been met with police violence.

In some parts of Colombia, protesters have also organized roadblocks that have recently led to fuel shortages, increased the prices of food, and forced some factories to shut down.

Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch say that the death toll since the protests began has risen to 55 and that in at least 15 cases, the alleged aggressors were police.

The Defence Ministry said last week that 15 civilians had died amid the protests and 11 more cases were being verified.

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