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Highlited Cases: National Guard
9
Incidents of Abuse
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Verbal and/or Psychological Abuse
Case 34
Transcribe: KG
Documenter: KG
Name of Person Abused: Group of Haitian Migrants
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Haitian
Date of Incident: August 31, 2021
Agency: National Guard
Type of Alleged Abuse: Psychological and/or Verbal Abuse
Physical Abuse
Use of Disproportionate Force on a Pregnant Woman
Disproportionate Use of Force on a Minor
Location of Incident: Cabecera Municipal Mapastepec, Chiapas.
"Agents of the National Guard and National Institute of Migration carried out an operation in the municipal capital of Mapastepec. All of us migrants, we were part of the second caravan from Tapachula, we decided to settle in the Central Park to sleep, several villagers provided us with water and food. At 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 20 units with agents of the National Guard and the National Migration Institute arrived at the park and immediately began an operation to detain us. National Guard agents surrounded a woman with her daughter who was crying, she screamed desperately and demanded that the uniformed officers not touch her. I was assaulted by the agents, "they hit me with the stick, they kicked me in my back which is swollen and I am pregnant, they also hit my 2 year old son". Some were detained and others ran near a temple."
