2014 Mauwul Riots
| Location | Manzulo, Narsora |
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| Date | December 11, 2014 - December 20, 2014 |
| Type | Riot |
| Deaths | 13 |
| Injuries | 312 (Including 20 officers & 3 MPO) |
| Arrested | 404 |
| Charged | 30 |
| Parties to the civil conflict |
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| Motives | Xenophobia towards immigrants. |
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The 2014 Manzulo Riot (December 11th - December 20th, 2014) began after the murder of a Narsoran man, 24-year old Arturo Díaz by two foreign men.
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Background
On December 11, 2014 24-year old Arturo Díaz was stabbed to death by two men during the robbery of a petrol station in which the men demanded money from the register, and then stabbed Díaz a total of 22 times (according to a medical examiner) whilst shouting racial insults to him. When news broke several hours later the use of racial epithets outraged the citizens of the Isrsrekyda neighborhood which who were mostly immigrant, and demanded police apprehend the two men. A peaceful protest outside the local police station soon escaladed into rioting and looting of mostly Narsoran-Spanish owned businesses in the neighborhood. The Isrsrekyda neighborhood had been a hotbed of racial tensions for several years prior.
Rioting
As the rioting and looting began, stores were robbed and fires were set with witnesses reporting mostly foreign and some native peoples being assaulted, as police responded they too were attacked and soon riot police were called in. Over the next five days, over 25 businesses were vandalized but rioting remained contained in the Isrsrekyda neighborhood, but soon began spreading to nearby neighborhoods. At that point 9 people had been killed including a police officer who was surrounded and hacked to death by a group of protestors, 297 had been injured and 388 had been arrested. On the 16th, President Sandalio Joaquín Espina made the decision to call in military troops to assist and quell the unrest. In the following three days, four more people would die including three killed by military police after they struck and killed a military police officer with their vehicle. The rioting began subsiding on the 19th and were officially declared over on the 20th.
Aftermath
Cristián Araújo, then mayor of Manzulo declared a city-wide curfew and state of emergency on the 16th, and military police began withdrawing a week later after the curfew was lifted. Damages from the riot are estimated around $81.2 Million ($44.4 Million NSD), the 2nd costliest riot after the 1984-85 Verano de Rabia Revolution . In the months following the riot then Mayor Cristián Araújo resigned and President Espina's approval rating dropped to 63%.
Gallery
A sqaud of SRU officers on patrol in the Mauwul neighborhood on the 14th.
A row of damaged shops on Calle Boaoama (Boaoama Street) in Mauwul.
Rioters set a barricade of tires on fire, December 16th.
