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<h1 class="reader-title">Ecuador 5 Dead as Anti-Gov't Protests
Enter 2nd Week</h1>
10 October 2019</div>
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<p>Protests against IMF austerity reached their eighth day
in Ecuador, as civil society groups denounced the
increased police violence, with the country's Public
Defender office confirming that five people have been
killed so far. As of Thursday morning, roadblocks by
protesters remain in key areas such as Carapungo,
the northern exit out of Quito, while Indigenous
protesters are concentrated in the center of the city,
near the National Assembly. </p>
<p>Some <a
href="https://twitter.com/redoscecu/status/1182258540326670337"
target="_blank">civil society organizations</a>
say the figure could be up to seven. CONAIE, an
Indigenous group involved in the protest, says they will
publish a report in the coming days giving full figures
of those killed and injured. This follows the death of
Inocencio Tucumbi, an Indigenous leader in Cotopaxi. </p>
<p>Civil society groups are also reporting that over 800
are currently detained, including 13 journalists.
Furthermore, at least 500 are reported injured.</p>
<p>There were also attacks on Wednesday night against a
humanitarian center near Salesiana University. The area
provided refuge and shelter for Indigenous marchers,
which during the night police attacked the area with
tear gas. Ecuador’s Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo
has since apologized for the attack. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Quito: National Police
launches tear gas at the Salesian Polytechnic
University, which has served as a shelter
"humanitarian reception centers" for Indigenous
people who are in Quito for the protests, from
out-of-town. <a
href="https://twitter.com/telesurenglish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@teleSURenglish</a><a
href="https://t.co/gF9DfsQq8V">pic.twitter.com/gF9DfsQq8V</a></p>
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) <a
href="https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1182103794525638658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
10, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>The police crackdown has received widespread
condemnation. The 'Madres de la Plaza de Mayo', a
leading human rights group in Argentina, formed by
mothers whose children disappeared during the
dictatorship, <a
href="https://twitter.com/EcuadorRC/status/1182019274422009856"
target="_blank">posted a video</a> Wednesday
denouncing the repression, saying, "In the name of the
mothers of the world: stop repressing! The peoples are
determined not to let us be defeated". </p>
<p>"This government is clinically dead, it has no way
out...they are trying to control the situation with the
most brutal repression of which there is memory," former
leftist President Rafael Correa said hitting out at the
police brutality, speaking to an Argentinian radio
station. </p>
<p>Political figures sympathetic to protesters have also
been targeted. The governor of the Pichincha region
Paola Pabon, from Correa's Citizen's Revolution party
was told by the interior minister that she will have to
'face justice', to which Pabon <a
href="http://www.pichinchauniversal.com.ec/no-le-tengo-miedo-a-su-regimen-de-represion-y-persecucion-responde-paola-pabon-a-maria-paula-romo/"
target="_blank">said</a>, "I am not afraid of your
regime, nor your repression or persecution".</p>
<p>Protests show little sign of abating as Indigenous
groups deny government claims that there are
negotiations ongoing to bring the uprising to an end.
Protesters maintain their opposition to the government's
austerity package that followed a multi-billion dollar
loan from the IMF. </p>
<p>Indigenous organizations revealed Thursday that they
had arrested eight police officers in Quito as they
called on the aut5hroities to half repression tactics
against anti-government protesters, who have been
peaceful in the most part. </p>
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