The Mothers of April Association (AMA) continues to demand justice from the Daniel Ortega dictatorship for the victims of the Nicaraguan regime’s “bloody” operation, called “Operation Cleanup,” in 2018.
In a releasethe organization highlighted that the Ortega-Murillo administration persists in “denying” the crimes against humanity that its shock forces perpetrated against Nicaraguans, who died fighting for the freedom of their country.
«Denies the «Massacre of May 30». It denies and continues to deny the “perpetrated executions”, the crimes committed in the month of June 2018 in the neighborhoods of Managua, in Tipitapa, in Masaya, in León, in Chinandega, after the bloody “Operation Cleanup”, which the regime announced as “Operation for Peace,” he denounced.
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Given these facts, the administration of Daniel Ortega stated that they had only “fulfilled their constitutional duty to restore order and free movement in the country.”
The repressive day was carried out between mid-June and July 2018. During this period, Ortega’s shock forces murdered around 100 Nicaraguans.
AMA assured that “Operation Cleanup” was an operation planned and executed “by special forces of the National Police (DOEP), paramilitaries that made disproportionate use of force and widespread use of lethal military weapons to tear down the” barricades “that the people had risen to defend themselves and those who were behind them resisting.’
Likewise, he urged Nicaraguans “not to allow the denial of the crimes against humanity committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime” to be imposed against the people of Nicaragua, because that would mean admitting that they never happened, “it would mean admitting amnesty.”
He also advocated “continuing to work to keep the memory alive”, to continue denouncing and not forgetting the crimes committed by the regime
“Let us not forget that the majority of those murdered in the month of June 2018 were riddled with bullets by the huge contingents of special forces equipped with weapons of war that cold-bloodedly attacked our children, the children of Nicaragua, while they resisted alongside their people at the barricades, or helping humanitarianally to have a free Nicaragua,” AMA concluded.
