Bogota Colombia: police launch explosive at protesting students, causing injuries

rebelion.org reported …. Denounce to the university community and national and international estates human rights protection, the attacks against life and personal integrity of students, perpetrated by agents of the power available from the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá.

The Association of University Professors, branch of the National Pedagogical University, complaint to the university community and levels of national and international human rights protection, the attacks against life and personal integrity of students, perpetrated by agents of the Force Available Bogotá Metropolitan Police.
1. On Wednesday, September 5, 2012, in Bogota, developed the protest movement and university teachers nationwide for breaching the national government has done to the structural reform of the education law and the educational community called “rabbit” to public education.

1.1. In Bogotá at one in the afternoon approximately, in the vicinity of the race 13 with 26A street, while mobilizing students, workers and academics, a group of policemen Available Force launched an explosive device containing screws, pellets and other unidentified objects on protesters, intending to kill them, target was not achieved.

2. The action group indiscriminate force available from the National Police injured more than four students, causing burns and holes with screws in different parts of your body, actions that constitute a violation of international human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law by the use of unconventional weapons, which cause unnecessary pain, and challenge the principle of distinction ignoring the civilian status of the protesters.

3. It was not possible to establish with certainty the data of the uniformed terrorists belonging to the power available from the National Police, due to lack of identification of practice used by the National Police to evade the controls of human rights organizations and citizens in general. Read Article