चिली में मानवाधिकारों के हनन का आरोप, जांच के लिए विशेष दल भेजेगा UN - मानवाधिकारों के हनन की जांच

चिली में विरोध प्रदर्शन में दौरान 18 लोगों का मौत हो गई, जिसके बाद संयुक्त राष्ट्र (UN) ने चिली में मानवाधिकारों के हनन की जांच के लिए एक विशेष दल भेजने का फैसला किया है. जानें पूरा विवरण

चिली में विरोध प्रदर्शन

Published : Oct 26, 2019, 12:09 AM IST

Updated : Oct 26, 2019, 5:04 PM IST

सैंटियागो: संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने गुरुवार को कहा कि वह चिली में मानवाधिकारों के हनन की जांच के लिए एक विशेष दल भेजेगा, जहां एक विरोध प्रदर्शन के दौरान मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 18 हो गई है.

हालांकि, राष्ट्रपति सेबेस्टियन पिनेरा ने आपातकालीन स्थिति और रात के समय कर्फ्यू को समाप्त करने की योजना की घोषणा करके तनाव कम करने की कोशिश की.

संयुक्त राष्ट्र के उच्चायुक्त मानवाधिकार और चिली के पूर्व राष्ट्रपति मिशेल बाचेलेट ने एक ट्वीट में कहा, चिली में इस संकट के शुरू होने के बाद से मैंने मानवाधिकारों के उल्लंघन के आरोपों की जांच के लिए एक प्रतिनिधि मंडल भेजने का फैसला किया है.

बता दें कि मेट्रो किराया वृद्धि के खिलाफ, कम वेतन और पेंशन, स्वास्थ्य देखभाल और शिक्षा की उच्च लागत और अमीर और गरीब के बीच एक अंतर को लेकर शुक्रवार को भी विरोध प्रदर्शन हुआ. जो अधिकतर शांतिपूर्ण रहा लेकिन कुछ जगहों पर प्रदर्शन के दौरान उग्र घटनाएं हुईं.

इस दौरान मेट्रो स्टेशनों को नष्ट कर दिया गया, सुपरमार्केटों को आग लगा दी गई और दुकानों को लूट लिया गया, ट्रैफिक लाइट और बस शेल्टर को तोड़ दिया गया.
शहर में तैनात करीब 2 हजार सैनिकों ने प्रदर्शन कर रहे लोगों पर आंसू गैस का उपयोग किया.

पढ़ें- युद्ध की अग्नि में झुलसता सीरिया

बता दें कि चिली के सबसे शक्तिशाली संघ, वर्कर्स यूनाइटेड सेंटर ऑफ चिली (CUT) द्वारा बुधवार को शुरू की गई औद्योगिक कार्रवाई जारी रही, लेकिन मध्य सैंटियागो में लोग सामान्य रूप से घरों से बाहर निकले और दुकानों खोलीं.

इससे पहले चिली सरकार ने राजधानी सेंटियागो में मेट्रो का किराया बढ़ाये जाने के बाद जारी विरोध प्रदर्शनों के बाद आपातकाल घोषित कर दिया था.

पढ़ें- युद्ध की अग्नि में झुलसता सीरिया

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UN to probe abuses in Chile as protest death toll hits 18
Santiago, Oct 25 (AFP) The United Nations said Thursday it would send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left 18 dead.
President Sebastian Pinera tried to ease tensions by announcing a plan to end a highly unpopular state of emergency and nighttime curfews.
"Having monitored the crisis in Chile since it began, I have decided to send a verification mission to examine the allegations of human rights violations," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet said in a tweet.
The protests erupted on Friday, initially against a metro fare hike but spiralled into general discontent at low salaries and pensions, high costs of health care and education, and a yawning gap between rich and poor.
While much of it has been peaceful, metro stations were destroyed, supermarkets torched and looted, traffic lights and bus shelters smashed and countless street barricades erected and set alight.
Some 20,000 police and soldiers have been deployed in the city, using tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators.
But they have also been responsible for five of the deaths, while social media have lit up with accusations of torture and abuses by the security forces.
Industrial action called by Chile's most powerful union, the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT,) that began on Wednesday continued, but in central Santiago people seemed to be going to work as normal with shops and businesses opening their doors.
Overnight Wednesday was the calmest yet of five nigthtime curfews, while a two-week state of emergency is now in its sixth day.
"We're working on a plan to normalize life in our country ... to end the curfew and hopefully to lift the state of emergency," Pinera said.
The national human rights institute (INDH) says 535 people have been injured -- 239 by firearms -- and 2,410 detained.
Nine of the deaths came in fires started by looters.
"What President Pinera has done up until now is increase polarisation and tension in the country," CUT president Barbara Figueroa told journalists.
"We have youngsters in the streets with a gun in their hands pointed at their own compatriots."
While the situation was largely peaceful in the capital the past two days, tensions have remained high in other areas, such as Santiago's suburbs.
As soldiers guarded Santiago's metro stations many of the city's seven million inhabitants returned to normality for the first time since the crisis erupted.
Three of the seven metro lines -- which usually carry three million people a day -- were operating on Thursday, backed up by 6,000 buses.
Most of the supermarkets that had remained closed on Wednesday opened their doors and almost all schools in the capital held classes.
On Wednesday, four hotels were looted and residents wearing yellow vets patrolled their own neighborhoods to guard against burglary.
In the central Valparaiso region toll booths on the road that connects it to Santiago were attacked while some protesters blocked major motorways in the southern Araucania region.
Chile, usually one of the most stable countries in Latin America, has seen its worst violence since returning to democracy after the 1973-1990 right-wing dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet.
But the protests lack a clear focus or recognizable leadership.
"This is the whole country's complaint, we're fed up," shouted one protester over the din of pots and pans being banged in front of soldiers.
In an address to the nation late on Tuesday, Pinera apologized for failing to anticipate the outbreak of social unrest and announced a raft of measures aimed at placating demonstrators.
He promised to increase the universal basic pension by 20 per cent, cancel a recent 9.2 per cent increase in electricity bills and introduce legislation to cut health service costs.
He also vowed to increase the minimum wage, reduce parliamentary expenses and cut high public sector salaries.
"We were hoping that this time of social conflict would increase sensitivity but these are the same proposals as months ago," said Izkia Siches, president of Chile's school of medicine, who took part in the strike.
In a poll by Ipsos, two-thirds of respondents said their economic, health and pensions situation was "unequal and unfair."
Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribera told reporters next month's APEC trade summit would go ahead despite the protests.
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are among those expected to attend the November 16-17 meeting to discuss ending their trade war. (AFP)
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