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Compañero DILAN asesinado por un efectivo del ESMAD (escuadron movil antidisturbios) del estado colombiano. Con tan solo 18 años decidieron quitarle la vida ¿su delito? soñar con  tener una educación publica de calidad en la que quepamos tanto indígenas, como campesinos, obreros, todo el proletariado unido de la mano de la piedra angular de  de la  concientización de clases. LA EDUCACIÓN.

A Colombian teenager who took part in a protest march to demand better access to education has died, two days after he was hit on the head by a projectile fired by riot police on November 23.

The death of Dilan Cruz has caused outrage and sparked fresh marches by protesters denouncing what they said was a heavy-handed police response.

He joined a protest march in the capital on Saturday to highlight the difficulties students like him had accessing higher education, according to his friends.

Video taken at the march shows the moment Dilan Cruz was hit.

A member of the riot squad marching down the road parallel to the demonstrators can be seen firing his weapon towards those protesting.

Seconds later, Dilan Cruz can be seen collapsed on the tarmac after being hit in the head by a projectile. People can be heard screaming "they hit him, they hit him" while others shout "no violence".

One of Dilan Cruz's friends told Colombian daily El Espectador that "we were marching and the Esmad (riot police) threw stun grenades and tear gas canisters at us".

"Dilan went to the front to kick back a tear-gas canister, because it had landed next to old people, that's when he was shot at, they say it was a rubber bullet," his friend added.

There have been conflicting reports on whether the projectile was a stun grenade, a tear-gas canister or a rubber bullet.

Paramedics managed to resuscitate Dilan Cruz at the scene before he was taken to hospital where Dr Juan Martínez diagnosed a traumatic brain injury caused by a "penetrating object".

His death was announced on Monday evening (Nov 25).

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Dilan did not die, he was killed.

That is what the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia found in its autopsy procedure, the results of which were announced on Thursday and establish the cause of death as "homicide or violent death".

The ammunition that impacted the student is called "bean bag," which, in the words of the director of Legal Medicine, is "a bag of textile material that contains multiple lead pellets."

Groups of students and human rights activists state Cruz was shot with unconventional ammunition.