On May 5, local time, Colombian President Duque made a speech condemning the deliberate acts of sabotage in the national strike and demonstrations, and said that according to the country’s prosecutor’s investigation, these saboteurs may have been directed or funded by drug trafficking organizations.
To this end, the Colombian government has now opened a special telephone line to receive relevant reports from the public.
According to Colombian media reports, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest since April 28. At first, they opposed the tax reform plan submitted by the government to Congress, and later it evolved into a demonstration against the Duke government.
According to reports, police shot at the demonstrators.
According to a statistical report from the Colombian Human Rights Monitoring Organization, at least 19 people have died in the demonstrations.
From the evening of the 4th to the early morning of the 5th local time, a total of 23 police stations were destroyed, one of which was set on fire. There were still 10 staff in the police station at the time of the incident.
On the 4th local time, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a document urging the Colombian people to remain calm, while emphasizing that law enforcement officials should observe the principles of lawfulness, caution, necessity, and proportionality when responding to demonstrations.
(Producing Wang Jiayi)
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