This Sunday, voters in Peru will elect a new president. The choice they face is between Keiko Fujimori, a center-right candidate and the daughter of disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, and Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher and union leader.
The number of attacks in the remote location region of Peru has risen to 16 in New Peru
Peruvian authorities accuse the dissident faction of the Maoist rebel group Shining Path of deadly violence.
Number of dead an attack Authorities said Tuesday that it had risen to 16 in a mountainous and remote region of Peru, as the country’s interim president promised that those responsible for the killings would not face “impunity”.
Peruvian authorities have blamed deadly violence on a dissident faction in the Shining Path, a Maoist movement that confronted the government in the 1980s and 1990s.
“We are doing everything we can to deploy the police and the military to effectively combat this scourge,” interim President Francisco Sagasti told reporters.
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Peru s Shining Path rebel group kills 16 ahead of presidential elections, says military
By Jimena De la Quintana and Claudia Rebaza, CNN
Updated 6:07 PM ET, Tue May 25, 2021 (CNN)Peruvian authorities say members of the Shining Path rebel group have killed 16 people, including two children, in a poverty-stricken, coca-growing region southeast of the capital, Lima.
According to a statement released by Peru s Armed Forces on Monday, the group carried out the killings in a region known as VRAEM (Valle de los Rios Apurimac, Ene y Mantaro) on the night of May 23, burning some of the victim s bodies. This type of action [massacre] is called by the terrorist organization as social cleansing and was carried out with firearms, the military statement said.
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Leftist Shining Path militants killed at least 16 people, including two children, in a remote region of Peru known for coca production and burned some of the bodies beyond recognition, the military said on Monday.
Pamphlets encouraging Peruvians to refrain from voting in the June 6 presidential election were found at the site of Sunday’s massacre, the joint command of Peru’s armed forces said in a statement.
According to BBC, the military called the murders “an act of genocide” and said the Shining Path had previously labeled such attacks a form of “social cleansing.” The statement assured Peruvians of “a secure electoral process.”