Members of the International Mission for the Observation and Defense of Human Rights, made up of 10 non-profit civil organizations, urged the Peruvian authorities to stop criminalizing mobilizations and social protests in Peru.
Through a letter signed by the Mission conglomerate, it was highlighted that the political and institutional crisis that Peru is going through is one of the most severe in its republican history, all derived from the arrest of former president Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022, when the government of Dina Boluarte and his Cabinet.
They detailed that, given the lack of recognition of the citizen's will, the government decided, through "States of Emergency" without guarantees of basic rights, to use violence as a mechanism of repression against indigenous and native peoples of the southern Andes, Lima and north .
The foregoing, leaving a balance of more than 72 dead, 900 injured and hundreds of people arrested.
"Impunity for these state crimes has been very serious and has also created difficulties for criminal prosecution through the centralization of the files of regional prosecutors," the international mission stressed.
In this sense, the organizations specified that the demands of the Peruvian people are focused on: closure of congress, constituent assembly for a new constitution, new elections and resignation of Dina Boluarte and her Cabinet and the freedom of former president Pedro Castillo.
And it is that, they said, despite the violence and repression, as well as the slowness in the clarification of the authorities responsible for the deceased, injured, arbitrarily detained and disappeared persons, to date impunity persists without there being a single sentence despite to the reports and recommendations of the UN, IACHR, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and international missions.
Thus, they reported that the third "TOMA DE LIMA" will take place on July 19, which will once again bring together the families of the victims, citizens, students, and human rights activists exercising their legitimate right to mobilization and social protest.
“You cannot stigmatize or criminalize the human right to mobilization and social protest that has been recognized internationally, as well as by the constitutional law and national jurisprudence of Peru. This has occurred through its own process of criminalization, which is historically known as ?terruqueo?», they remembered.
Given this, the organizations denounced the government's decisions against the protesting Peruvian people.
"We denounce and reject authoritarian and repressive decisions and attitudes of the Peruvian government led by Dina Boluarte and the president of the Council of Ministers, which put the Peruvian people and especially indigenous and native peoples in conditions of greater vulnerability."
In addition to the complaints, the mission rejected the presence in Peruvian territory of United States troops, designed to protect the economic interests of extractive companies, such as mining and oil companies, a situation that has intensified the generalized climate of social intimidation and repression.
«We demand the cessation of the campaign of intimidation, misinformation and social panic, associating the ?TOMA DE LIMA? to organizations called terrorists, such as Sendero Luminoso,” they pointed out. "We call on the international community to remain vigilant to prevent new crimes against humanity and impunity in Peru."
The letter was signed by TICPM ?International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement ? Mexico?; CESJUL ?Center for Latin American Socio-Legal Studies? Colombia?; Working Group ?WG? «Borders, Regionalization and Globalization» of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences?CLACSO?; National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area ?United States?; Global Exchange ?United States?; and the Natura ?Peru? Environmental Institute.
As well as the Solidarity Committee with Peru "Mexico"; the American Association of Jurists ?AAJ?; International Association of Democratic Lawyers ?IADL?, including its national affiliates in India, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Italy; and the International Association of People's Lawyers ?IAPL?.
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