The Nicaraguan exile community in Miami, New York and San José, Costa Rica, held marches, masses and events this Sunday in tribute and commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the massacre of May 30, 2018.
In these marches, a call for justice was made again for the victims of the violence unleashed by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the citizen protests that took place between April and September 2018.
On May 30, 2018, as part of the celebration of the so-called “Mother of the marches” in protest against the repression of Ortega, 19 people were killed and almost 200 were injured by the violence unleashed by police and paramilitaries at the service of the government. regime.
Eight were killed in Managua, seven in Estelí; three in Chinandega and one in Masaya, since there were also parallel marches in the departments. Another 199 people were injured in the bloodiest Mother’s Day in Nicaragua, an event described by human rights organizations as a “massacre” and now he remembers with vigils, attending masses or with messages demanding justice.
The Mothers of April Association (AMA) made this Monday, May 23, a public call to declare “national mourning” this May 30. The AMA proposal was given in response to the initiative promoted by the head of the National Assembly, the Ortega deputy, Gustavo Porras, to declare Nicaraguan Mother’s Day a national holiday, approved by the steamroller of legislators of the regime and its allies politicians and that was already published in La Gaceta, Official State Gazette.
The massive march in Managua ended bathed in bloode, just after Ortega sentenced in a speech before his followers that “Nicaragua belongs to all of us and we all stay here.”
Members of the Reflection Group for Political Prisoners were present at the Miami march, calling on Nicaraguan exiles to maintain the demand for the release of the more than 190 political prisoners held by the regime in its jails.
“The voice of our prisoners released in the United States is heard with strength and joy in Nicaragua knowing that the cause lives in the activism of our brothers who, to protect their lives, have had to leave Nicaragua, without giving up the fight. For our martyrs we demand justice! For our prisoners and inmates, we demand freedom!” He quoted a statement shared on his social networks.
? Nicaraguans also held a sit-in at the Nicaraguan Consulate in Miami to demand justice for the victims of the regime’s repression. ?: Courtesy. pic.twitter.com/Hdv3MjLIhL
— Confidential Nicaragua (@confidencial_ni) May 29, 2022
March of Memory in San José
The march held in San José, Costa Rica, was called the March of Memory. Mothers of some of those killed in the May 30, 2018 march and members of exile forced to leave Nicaragua due to the persecution and siege of the repressive forces of the regime were present at this event.
The Articulation of Social Movements and CSO Nicaragua shared videos and images of the march in San José on their social networks, in which they raised slogans against the Ortega Murillo regime, demanding his removal from power and justice for the victims of repression.
For their part, members of AMA held a mass in honor of the victims of the May 30 massacre in Managua, Costa Rica, at the Church of Los Ladrillos de San Francisco de Asís in Costa Rica.
?? We begin a day of commemoration and mourning for our children and relatives murdered by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in May. #May30NationalMourning,?? pic.twitter.com/P5VooUfFCW
– April Mothers Association (AMA) (@MadresDeAbril) May 29, 2022
