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A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a protest against Chile's government, in Santiago, Chile November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza
“These are all fundamental obligations of the State,” he said. “We make a profound and sincere call to all social and political forces to make an alliance for peace.” In the central coastal city of Valparaiso, demonstrators confronted police armed with tear gas and water canons - the use of rubber bullets has been suspended due to the level of casualties - as they tried to break into the country’s congress.
Chile has seen a month of both peaceful protests and violent riots over low pensions and salaries, the high cost of living, and security force abuses. The Amnesty report is expected to be followed in two or three weeks by one by UN human rights investigators who completed a fact-finding mission to Chile on Friday.
“When you hear there are so many people with eye injuries ... my pre-judgment is that protocol isn’t being followed,” she said.
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