- Title: PERU: FORMER STATE WORKERS CLASH WITH POLICE DURING PROTEST
- Date: 21st November 2003
- Summary: (U7) LIMA, PERU (NOVEMBER 19, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV FORMER STATE WORKERS PROTESTING; SLV PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS AND WATER CANNON TRUCK FIRING WATER ON PROTESTERS 0.28 2. MV PROTESTERS EXTRACTING BLOOD FROM THEIR ARMS WITH HYPODERMIC NEEDLES AND ON GROUND (8 SHOTS) 0.59 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER HUGO AREVALO, SAYING "Unfortunately, we have to risk our own lives because for 11-years they haven't fulfilled our demands. It's because of that that we're out here doing this risking our own lives." 1.13 4. POLICE AND PROTESTERS CLASHES; SLV PROTESTERS YELLING Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: LIMA, PERU
- Country: Peru
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- Story Text: Former state workers clash with Peruvian police
during protest.
Former Peruvian state workers clashed with police on
Wednesday (November 19) during a demonstration in Lima.
The former government employees marched on the Labour
Ministry, protesting their 1999-2000 job losses during the
Alberto Fujimori administration and demanding to be
re-hired.
As the protesters threw rocks and bottles at security
forces, police fired water cannons on the crowd.
About three hundred protesters, headed by two partially
dressed men carrying crosses, staged the march. Once they
arrived at the ministry, dozens of the demonstrators
inserted hypodermic needles in their arms as a form of
protest. Several fainted from the blood loss, a desperate
move undertaken by desperate men, according to activist
Hugo Arevalo.
"Unfortunately, we have to risk our own lives because
for 11 years they haven't fulfilled our demands," said
Arevalo. "It's because of that that we're out here doing
this risking our own lives."
The former government workers said they will continue
to stage protests in the upcoming days.
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