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They denounce military abuse in Ikabarú
Thursday, 21 of Julio of 2011

Miners, retailers and inhabitants of Ikabarú, in the municipality Great Savannah, denounced to be victims of abuses and upsettings on the part of civil servants of the Army and the National Guard. They barred the entrance to the town yesterday.


Lisbeth Castro
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They assured that they will continue with the protests of not being taken care of his demands

Inhabitants of the Ikabarú parish, in the municipality Great Savannah, denounced a series of upsettings and abuses from the National Guard and Military staff. Residents informed, telephone route, that the military abuse their authority in this border place with Brazil.

Before this fact, miners, retailers and inhabitants took the military facilities and with rubber burning fire they demanded the presence of the authorities of the region and the country, to solve this problem.

Workers of the mining indicate that the civil servants clear their pumps to them of water, gasoline drums and motors, leaving them without the instruments to make their task. Also, they commented that they are extortion victims, officials request the vaccine payment to be able to exert his work, this added to the fuel restriction in the south of the state complica Bolivar his situation. They commented that the military want to evacuate these zones to give them in concession Chinese and to the Russian.

Municipal authority
The mayor of Great Savannah, Manuel de Jesus Valle's, moved to this town in company of the deputy by the Legislative Council of the state Bolivar, Miriam Kings, to meet with the inhabitants.

There the mayor, lieutenant Davidson Fares Manzol, Mariano Montilla Register, representative of the 513 Brigade of Infantry of Forest, communal advice of Ikabarú, the Sabanita, and the indigenous White Beach communities and San Gerónimo, decided four points to look for solutions.

In the first place they request definitive answers of the authorities of the country around the mining activity in the zone, that at the moment practices of illegal way as soon as the past year the national government decreed the Caura Plan, like measurement of ecological protection. The second place demands the beginning of inquiries as far as the upsettings undergone on the part of the civil servants of the Army and the National Guard, third party demands the fuel delivery for the subsistence of the inhabitants of the sector, and quarter that operative or the supervisions carried out by the FAN in the place must become in the presence of the Public Defensoría and the communal advice of the locality.

Inhabitants showed that the Bolivars will guard by the fulfillment of the request sheet in this parish to the south of the state.
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