Bolivian police break up anti-highway march

[Bacchus39]

http://news.yahoo.com/bolivian-police-break-anti-highway-march-053338120.html

By JUAN KARITA - Associated Press | AP – »YUCUMO, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a march Sunday by hundreds of indigenous activists protesting plans to build a highway they say will despoil a vast Amazon nature preserve.

Police arrested the march's leaders, hauling them away in buses. Bolivia's national ombudsman, Rolando Villena told Erbol radio "there was excess use of force" by police in "violating the rights of the Indians in the protest."

The U.N.'s representative in Bolivia, Yoriko Yasukawa, called on the government to rely on dialogue.

Witnesses including an Associated Press photographer saw about 500 police surround protesters, including woman and children, just before dusk Sunday and set upon them with gas and clubs.

[naaman fletcher]

1. I guess

the CIA most be behind this, or something.

[Bacchus39]

2. yes, because indigenous are too poor to protest

or something along those lines.