The indictment also includes Prime Minister Alberto Otárola and Interior Minister Vicente Romero, pointing out that the three accused committed “serious human rights abuses”.
The President and several collaborators are the subject of a preliminary State Department investigation into alleged genocide and aggravated homicide crimes. (Photo: PL)
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte faces a constitutional charge of violating the constitution over the deaths recorded during ongoing opposition protests, Congresswoman Ruth Luque, author of the complaint, confirmed Thursday.
The complaint also targets Prime Minister Alberto Otárola and Interior Minister Vicente Romero, pointing out that the three accused committed “serious human rights abuses”.
He claims that Boluarte, Otárola and Romero violated five articles of the Constitution due to deaths registered in the second wave of protests in the regions of Puno, Cusco and Arequipa.
Also for the massive arrest of 193 students and demonstrators who came from these and other regions to protest in Lima against the raid on the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos.
According to Ruth Luque, the government’s response to the protests “correctly responds to a systematic policy of repression and continued political support for the police actions of the accused in all instances”, despite evidence of disproportionate repression and illegal use of weapons.
This policy, he added, “violates the constitutional duties of respect for human dignity and fundamental rights as a state purpose, as well as the requirement to protect human rights, among other constitutional goods.”
Luque previously filed a similar complaint against then Prime Minister Pedro Angulo, Defense Ministers Alberto Otárola and Interior Minister César Cervantes.
He pointed out that they were responsible for the deaths in the first wave of protests that unleashed after the 7 December sacking and imprisonment of former President Pedro Castillo.
The President and several staffers are also the subject of a preliminary investigation by the State Department into alleged genocide and aggravated homicide charges stemming from the suppression of protests that marked their twentieth day in various regions this Thursday.
In addition, 46 provincial prosecutors announced that they have prepared a complaint before the International Criminal Court against President Boluarte, Otárola and the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, General Manuel Gómez de la Torre, for crimes against human rights.
Among other things, against the former interior ministers César Cervantes and Víctor Rojas as well as the far-right congressmen Jorge Montoya and Patricia Chirinos.
