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Ecuadorian Police Colonels Face Probe after Uprising

HeadlineOct 04, 2010

Three Ecuadorian police colonels are under criminal investigation for rebellion and attempted assassination following last week’s police revolt against President Rafael Correa. On Saturday, President Correa attended the funeral for Juan Pablo Bolaños, one of five people killed in last week’s unrest.

Rafael Correa: “The twenty-four-year-old student, Juan Pablo Bolaños, went with 6,000 people to rescue the president at 6:00 or 7:00 at night. They met them with bullets, with tear gas, with snipers on the rooftops. How can your soul be so little to do that? How can you call that being police? The police themselves should be the ones that arrest the very worst elements. And if they have any dignity, those bad elements, they should surrender their weapons, their uniforms, their badges, because they do not deserve to be called police.”

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