"Police and military forces clashed with protesters in Quito on Sunday amid demonstrations against the government's decision to eliminate the diesel subsidy, coinciding with the Day of Indigenous Resistance. Footage shows Ecuador's National Police and Armed Forces firing tear gas as crowds march through the streets carrying national flags, signs and banners reading 'Noboa rat' and 'I see you scared, Noboa'. "Look at how the soldiers are, loaded with weapons, bombs, rifles, how they go out into the streets to repress. They don’t care if they kill or if someone falls," said Monica Tamy, who claimed to have witnessed police violence during the ongoing Indigenous-led strike. Protesters denounced the Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office for filing ‘terrorism’ charges against at least 20 people held in pre-trial detention amid the demonstrations. "We are not terrorists, and let him [Noboa] come out from wherever he is. We want him to go," said demonstrator Olga Moran, who also criticised President Daniel Noboa for calling Indigenous activists 'troublemakers' and telling them to 'get to work' amid the protests against the elimination of the diesel subsidy. "Ecuador belongs to our Indigenous peoples. How is he going to say he will throw us out? He is the one who should leave. If he doesn’t have the capacity to govern a country, let him go," Moran added. The end of the diesel subsidy raised the price from 1.80 to over 2.80 USD (1.55-2.41 EUR) per gallon – a policy the government claims will save 1.1 billion USD (946 million EUR) for social programmes and production incentives, which unions and Indigenous groups condemn as harmful to workers and rural communities. At least one person has been killed, reportedly by army fire, and over a hundred injured or detained amid the unrest in Quito."