LONDON (AFP) - Riot police from Beirut and Baghdad to Hong Kong and Minsk often use so-called 'non-lethal' weapons for crowd control - so why do protesters keep dying and being maimed?. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Riot police from Beirut and Baghdad to Hong Kong and Minsk often use so-called"non-lethal" weapons for crowd control - so why do protesters keep dying and being maimed?
The arsenal also includes truncheons, shields and restraints, chemical irritants, electric shock devices, baton rounds, flash-bang grenades, water cannon and high-decibel acoustic devices. They have died of blunt force trauma to their eye sockets, skulls and chests as security forces have shot the grenades in flat, not upward, trajectories and at close range.
HRW said it observed"security forces fire a tear-gas canister directly at a protester's head, in violation of international standards, severely injuring him". Protesters have lost eyes to them in the French yellow-vest demonstrations, Palestinian anti-Israel protests and in the unrest that followed the George Floyd killing in the United States.
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