The lawsuit was brought by the families of 32 of the 50 killed in the demonstrations that began after the ruler took office on December 7, 2022, given the slowness of the State Department’s investigations, which, despite the fact that they are almost completed, are small Progress is showing a year after these social demonstrations began.
They expressed their outrage at the delay in clarifying the 31 deaths registered in Puno (22) and Ayacucho (10). The remaining victims fell in the Apurímac (7), Arequipa (5) and La Libertad (5) regions; one injured person died months later.
According to the mourners, the State Ministry is obstructing justice by replacing the prosecutors in charge of the case with others who have nothing to do with it and do not specialize in human rights.
In this spirit, Rosa Luque, a mother from the city of Puno, where she lost a son, described the government as a dictator and genocider and called for participation in the protests planned for December 7th.
For his part, the chairman of the National Combat Coordinator of Social and Political Organizations, Lucio Calla, confirmed that the day of protest will require punishment of those responsible and direct perpetrators of the deaths.
It also calls for early parliamentary, presidential and legislative elections, a Constituent Assembly and the freedom of those imprisoned for a year for taking part in the demonstrations.
On the other hand, the lawyer David Velazco Rondón, director of the Ecumenical Foundation for Development and Peace (Fedepaz), denounced that the special team in charge of investigating the deaths refuses to include the death of the Aymara farmer Manuel Quilla from Puno, deceased number 50.
He explained that Quilla died after being detained in Lima, without his arrest being reported, while taking part in an opposition march on March 15 this year, and emerged days later with evidence of torture, but there is a case against him another public prosecutor’s office and not through the devices mentioned above.
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