First Posted: May 24, 2021 08:51 PM EDT
Peru s military confirmed at least 14 deaths in the massacre that took place in a remote region of the country, weeks before the upcoming polls of presidential elections. Al Jazeera reported that the massacre took the lives of 14 people on Sunday, including two children.
Peru s military blamed the group Shining Path for being responsible for the killings which they label as an act of genocide. However, the Military also reassured Peruvians of a secure electoral process in the coming weeks. The military furthered that the group responsible for the killings labeled such acts to be social cleansing.
Death toll from attack in remote Coca area in Peru rises to 16 peru news
The Peruvian authorities blamed the deadly violence on the dissident factions of the Maoist rebel group Bright Way.
Death toll attack Authorities said on Tuesday that in a remote mountainous area in Peru, the country has risen to 16 people because the country’s interim president has vowed to take responsibility for those killings with “impunity.”
The Peruvian authorities blamed the deadly violence on the dissident faction of Luminous Way, a Maoist movement that fought the government in the 1980s and 1990s.
Interim President Francisco Sagasti told reporters: “We are making every effort to deploy the police and the army to effectively combat this plague.”
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FILE PHOTO: Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman and his wife and second leader Elena Iparraguirre attend a trial during sentence of a 1992 Shining Path car bomb case in Miraflores, at a high security naval prison in Callao, Peru September 11, 2018. Picture taken through a window. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru’s interim president said on Tuesday there will be “no impunity” for the authors of a massacre of 16 Peruvians in a jungle region known for cocaine production, which authorities attribute to a dissident faction of Shining Path rebels.
“We are doing all we can to deploy the police and the military in a way that we can efficiently combat this plague,” interim President Francisco Sagasti told reporters. “We know this is a rough terrain with many ravines that the narcoterrorists know very well.”
The death toll of an attack in a remote, mountainous region of Peru has risen to 16, authorities said on Tuesday, as the country’s interim president vowed there would be “no impunity” for those responsible for the killings.
The Peruvian authorities have blamed the deadly violence on a dissident faction of Shining Path, a Maoist movement that battled the government in the 1980s and 1990s.
“We are doing all we can to deploy the police and the military in a way that we can efficiently combat this plague,” interim President Francisco Sagasti told reporters.
“We know this is a rough terrain with many ravines that the narcoterrorists know very well.”
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