The Peruvian government ordered a night curfew on Thursday in 15 provinces located in 8 departments, of the 24 that the country has, following a day in which at least six anti-government protesters have died, which raised the death toll to 14 since last Sunday.
At least six protesters have been killed in the first 20 hours of Peru’s state of national emergency, which went into effect on Wednesday, in the protests that add up to 14 deaths since Sunday and that call for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress and the call for a constituent assembly.
The Peruvian Ministry of Health confirmed, through its social networks, that six protesters died this Thursday in various parts of the country, four of them in the southern department of Ayacucho, and two in the department of La Libertad, in the north.
This Thursday, heThe strongest riots occurred precisely in Ayacucho, where protesters invaded the airport, something that provoked the action of the Armed Forces and that has left a balance of four fatalities.
The authorities have not given details of the circumstances of the two deceased reported in La Libertad.
Thus, these six fatalities are added to the six deceased in the southern department of Apurímac, a fatality in Arequipa, and another deceased in La Libertad, since the protests intensified this Sunday in various parts of the country.
So far, the identifications of all the victims have not been provided, but at least two of them were minors.
“Not one more death! We demand investigation and punishment of the crimes in Ayacucho (4 dead and 39 injured). A people punished by violence. We demand an end to military intervention and hold the highest political authorities in the country responsible for these crimes.”wrote in Twitter the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH).
The organization denounced this Wednesday that the response of the police forces to the protests that have been taking place in recent days in the country “is clearly outside the national and international regulatory framework.”
The Boluarte government decreed a 30-day national state of emergency this Wednesday to control the acts of vandalism and violence committed in protest demonstrations once morest it.
As announced by the Minister of Defense, Alberto Otárola, the supreme decree declaring the state of emergency was published in an extraordinary edition of the legal norms gazette.
During the state of emergency, the constitutional rights related to the inviolability of the home, freedom of transit through the national territory, freedom of assembly and personal freedom and security are suspended, it detailed in its second article.
