ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> Chilean police fired water cannons at students protesting against municipal mayor Pedro Sabat, who has been critical of students demanding reform.<br/> Sabat, mayor of Nunoa, suspended the enrollment of 300 secondary school students for their involvement in protests, which peaked last August in Chile.<br/> Defending the eviction of students, he had called a girls' boarding school a "whorehouse", citing that its students had sexual relations, trafficked drugs and stole supplies.<br/> His comments incensed students, alumni and politicians.<br/> In Santiago on Friday (January 13), about 400 protesters demonstrated against Sabat. Some held up posters with cheeky slogans like "We are all whores."<br/> Indignant students organised the march in eastern Santiago, and security forces tried to break it up by firing water cannons at activists who were throwing rocks.<br/> At least six protesters were detained and several were injured, including one who was hit in the head by a rock.<br/> In the past year, thousands of Chilean students have launched rallies demanding that the government provide free university education to the youth.
