Ecuador Militarization and enforced disappearance: interview with Fernando Bastias, lawyer of the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights - By Federico Pita and Jeremias Perez Rabasa – NODAL

Fernando Bastías: “Here was a direct attempt to kill 4 racialized children” On the night of Sunday, December 8, 2024, four Afro-Ecuadorian children, 15-year-old Ismael Arroyo, 14-year-old Josué Arroyo, 15-year-old Nehemías Arboleda, and 11-year-old Steven Medina were arrested by Air Force soldiers upon returning from a football match in a neighborhood [...] Entry Ecuador Militarization and enforced disappearance: interview with Fernando Bastías…

In an official statement, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed the judicialization of four members of the National Army’s Action Battalion #1 for the crime of murder of a peasant-officio civilian in Arenal del Sur, south of Bolívar. “A prosecutor from the Special Directorate against Human Rights Violations brought before a guarantee judge the four uniforms who allegedly participated in the death of a civilian while in a military operation in …