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HRD Attack

Casimiro Mateo

Incident date
19 Jan 2015
Date accuracy
All Correct
Male
Indigenous peoples
Arrest or detention
Target: Individual
Location of Incident: Guatemala
Ecoener-Hidralia Spain Hydropower & dam projects
Other actors

Sources

Police raids community, captures indigenous leader of resistance against hydroelectric project, who is detained. Police raids community, captures indigenous leader of resistance against hydroelectric project, who is detained. At 4 in the morning, vehicles with police and army personnel allegedly entered the community of Pojom San Mateo Ixtatan, to search for leaders opposed to the Pojom I and II hydroelectric project. The security force allegedly used tear gas. The targets of this operation were two brothers, Jesus and Casimiro Mateo who were transferred by air to the city of Huehuetenango where they were detained. Both brothers had been involved in a confrontation on November 23, 2014 with PDH workers, for which they were being charged with attempted murder, claims that community leaders denounce.