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Chile: Police Reportedly Use Rubber Bullets in Student Protest

Written bySilvia Viñas

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Posted 2 September 2010 23:33 GMT

Natalia Muñoz reports [es] that during a peaceful student protest in the University of Chile, police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets. Students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism have been on strike since last Thursday, protesting against “the privatization agenda of the Ministry of Education.”

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