Hundreds of women demonstrated Saturday against feminicide in Ecuador, which has claimed more than 200 victims since the beginning of the year, according to a gender-based violence NGO.

The country was rocked last month by the murder of lawyer Maria Belen Bernal, 34, who disappeared after entering a police training facility in the capital, Quito, where she was visiting her husband.

The incident sparked nationwide protests, and police named her fugitive husband as the prime suspect.

On Saturday, protesters held up placards that read “Look at me carefully because I could be the next victim” and chanted “We want to live”.

Protests took place on the streets of the capital Quito and other parts of Ecuador after social organizations called for “standing together against the femicide state”.

This slogan was also spray-painted in front of the police headquarters in Quito, where protesters gathered to throw eggs at the building and spray red and yellow paint on the facade.

Bernal’s body was found four days after her disappearance on a hilltop about five kilometers from the Quito police academy.

A sign reading “Murderous Police” was placed at the feet of the riot gear-clad officers, and their shields were covered in paint.

President Guillermo Lasso has meanwhile ordered the dismissal of two generals and Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo.

According to an NGO that monitors gender-based violence, there have been 206 femicides in Ecuador since the beginning of the year.

The attorney general’s office says there have been 573 murders of women since 2014, a crime punishable by up to 26 years in prison.

According to official statistics, 65 out of 100 women between the ages of 15 and 49 in Ecuador have experienced some form of violence.