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The 107-page report, “Deadly Decline: Security Force Abuses and Democratic Crisis in Peru,” documents excessive use of force by security forces, due process violations and abuses against detainees, and failures in criminal investigations, as well as the entrenched political and social crisis that is eroding the rule of law and human rights in Peru. While some protesters were responsible for acts of violence, security forces responded with grossly disproportionate force, including with assaul...

"Armed political violence and wars are situations that contradict the human being and must be avoided or disappear. We are all committed to this task. In this aspiration, justice and the law are the best weapons for prevention and control; they are the weapons for identifying those responsible and punishing them".

Four Peruvian soldiers have drowned in a river while responding to protests demanding the resignation of Peru’s president. The soldiers tried to cross a bridge, but it was blocked.

LIMA, March 7, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Six Peruvian soldiers drowned after jumping into a freezing river while fleeing anti-government protesters in

Military officials in Peru say four soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where violent protesters are demanding the resignation of Peru’s president

Six soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru’s president have turned violent, military officials said Monday. The bodies of two soldiers who had been missing were located later in the day, raising the death toll from four to six,…

Six soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru's president have turned violent, military officials said Monday.

Lima, Mar 6 (EFE).- Six soldiers have died while trying to cross the Ilave river after fleeing from anti-government protesters in Puno in southern Peru, officials said Monday. The divers of the Captain of Ports department worked all day to recover the bodies of five of the deceased after finding the first one on Sunday. …

Lima, Mar 7 (EFE).- Peru’s transitional president, Dina Boluarte, spent just over an hour Tuesday answering questions from Attorney General Patricia Benavides about the deaths of at least 48 protesters at the hands of security forces in the last three months. Boluarte arrived at the AG Office around 8:50 am in an official vehicle and …

LIMA, Peru -- Six soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Perus president have turned violent, military officials said Monday.