The number of protesters in Dominica grew exponentially today Nov 18th. They marched through the city and up to the Neg Mawon statue . They encountered the usual barricade the police in military outfit had set up for 8 days now . The only difference was there were now hundreds of protesters. They stood at the barricade and demanded to see the President Charles Savarin . They were repeatedly ignored . The crowd got agitated and broke down the barricade and ran of with the barrier. The police began to withdraw when suddenly someone yelled teargas . The police rained down about 50 canisters of tear gas on the crowd . There were women , children and elderly in the crowd . Who could run took of while many suffered a brutal attack by the Dominican police .
One gentle man had a huge imprint of the teargas canister on his chest . That in of itself could cause internal hemorrhage. The people were resilient and gathered water and rags and head back up where new barricades were set up .
The people are asking for electoral reform and voter ID card . All they want is to meet with the President. The leadership of the country has ignored the people. The police continues to stand on the hill in military fatigues with guns and batons in hand ready to attack the people. More to come on this story .
