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I read this article and got the impression that the "19 dead" figure would be military killing protesters. So I thought that this was another heavy-handed putdo
by croissants 7y ago
I read this article and got the impression that the "19 dead" figure would be military killing protesters. So I thought that this was another heavy-handed putdown of relatively peaceful protests.
But Wikipedia's breakdown [1] is quite different. By my count, 15 deaths don't involve the military at all. These deaths are from protest-related fires, looting-related shootings, and a citizen? who drove into a crowd of protesters and killed two people. 5 more deaths were direct results of military activity, so the apparent number is 20.
However, I can't judge the Wikipedia sources because many of them come from Spanish-language news sources. And, as the original article says, the government is actively impeding accurate statistics.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests#Deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests#Deaths
- vcanales 7y agoThis is pretty much it, as we’ve seen and heard from the media and the INDH (National Institute of Human Rights)