Patricio Pardo was 26 years old and was wounded by state agents in one of his eyes, during a demonstration.
The suicide of a 26-year-old young man who was injured in one of his eyes during a demonstration by state agents has generated consternation in Chile, which at the end of 2019 experienced the most serious crisis since the return to democracy in 1990.
Patricio Pardo, from the coastal city of Valparaíso, “could not get out of his depression, after being mutilated by state agents,” the Coordinator for Ocular Trauma Victims and Family members reported Friday night.
“We cannot feel oblivious to this misfortune that grieves us all, for him and for all comrades who have violated their rights, we cannot allow the State to continue abandoning us and damaging us day by day,” added the association that brings together the Most of the 400 protesters who sustained eye injuries during the blast.
The National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) affirmed on Sunday on Twitter that the death of Pardo “confirms the urgency of psychological support and a law of comprehensive reparation for victims of human rights violations that occurred since October 18, 2019 ″.
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That day a wave of protests broke out in Chile against inequality and the current economic model unparalleled since the end of the dictatorship, which left some thirty dead and thousands injured, as well as episodes of extreme violence with looting and fires.
The images of young people with bloody eyes after being shot with pellets and tear gas canisters in the face went around the world and they also provoked denunciations against the security forces by the UN and Amnesty International.
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They also reacted to the death of the young political figures such as the communist deputy Carmen Hertz, who argued that “impunity hurts the soul of society and tortures its members,” or the elected deputy Emilia Schneider, for whom “the victims of rape Human Rights have been abandoned by the State ”.
“Our young people deserve to live in a just Chile, without impunity or denialist speeches”, added the writer and National Prize for Journalism Faride Zerán.
Last October, the UN asked the Chilean State in a harsh report to “deepen its efforts” to address the human rights violations committed in the massive protests, which deflated with the arrival of the pandemic.
“We value the efforts of the State (…) However, obstacles persist in the victims’ access to justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition”, stressed the representative of UN Human Rights in South America, Jan Jarab.
The constituent process in which Chile is immersed was created precisely in the protests and the plebiscite held on October 25, 2020 to change the current Constitution – inherited from the dictatorship – was the institutional solution that the country found to calm the crisis. (I)
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