| 16/12/2020 – 14:58 (GMT-4)
Suriname Special Forces on Wednesday attacked a group of Cuban migrants who demonstrated at the border to let them enter Guyana.
Images released by the Cuban journalist, Mario Vallejo, reveal the brutality of which the Cubans were victims, who were threatened even with large weapons amid screams and struggles.
After almost two weeks of being planted on a pier in the western part of Suriname, in the city of Nickerie, Cubans had been notified that they had to leave the site or else they would be forcibly evicted.
In a meeting with the head of police and the government of Nickerie, the communications that Guyana had officially denied entry into the country and recommended their withdrawal. The one explained on the dock that came to house dozens of multicolored tents was going downhill until it was clean.
In the face of the threat from the authorities, some families with minors decided to leave the plant and return to the country’s capital, Paramaribo, located more than 200 kilometers from Nickerie.
However, others remained on the dock where they sit and several pans a day to reiterate their claim to cross the border, according to images released by Radio Televisió Martí yesterday.
Migrants still hold out hope that the ferry service connecting Suriname with Guyana, which was temporarily suspended by the unleashed migrant crisis, will resume. The Cubans who remain in the squad have declared their willingness to remain in the place and not return to the capital, where they say they have no resources to live.
The purpose of the group begins in Guyana a caravan heading to Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and cross the Central American countries to reach Mexico. Of an initial group of more than 460 people, between 200 and 230 Cubans remain on the dock.
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