The Pope Francisco asked this Sunday for the end of the violence in peruwhere almost 50 people have died in recent weeks during roadblocks, pickets and serious clashes with the police in the worst wave of riots that the Andean country has experienced in two decades.
“I join the Peruvian bishops in saying no to violencewherever it comes from, no more deaths,” the pope said in Spanish in his weekly sermon before thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, briefly deviating from the rest of the Angelus comments, which were in Italian.
Protests erupted in Peru following former President Pedro Castillo was ousted in December following attempting to illegally dissolve Congress to avoid an impeachment vote over a corruption scandal.
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“Violence snuffs out the hope of a just solution to the problems,” said the Argentine pontiff.
“I encourage all parties involved to take the path of dialogue between brothers in the same nation in the full respect for human rights and the rule of law”.
The crises in Peru
Dozens of people were injured in the latest wave of unrest in Peru on Friday, when security forces in the capital Lima used tear gas to repel protesters who were throwing glass bottles and rocks.
The riots, which until this week had been concentrated in southern Peru, led the government of the president In Boluarte to extend the state of emergency to six regions, restricting some civil rights.
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Francis also called for peace and mutual forgiveness in Myanmar, where at least seven civilians were killed this week when armed forces launched air strikes on a village in the central S once moreg region.
Myanmar has been battered by fighting since the army toppled an elected government in February 2021. Resistance movements, some armed, have sprung up across the country, which the military is trying to quell using deadly force.
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