Amnesty report finds racial bias in Peru’s protest crackdown
Al JazeeraThe report comes as Peru declares Mexican President Lopez Obrador a ‘persona non grata’ after he criticised the protest response. Almost all of them were from poor, Indigenous and campesino backgrounds, suggesting a racial and socioeconomic bias in the use of lethal force.” The report is the latest to find that Peru’s government wielded disproportionate violence and targeted people from poor and Indigenous backgrounds during the protests that enveloped the country following the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo. “It’s weaponising the language of terrorism to scare people.” Anti-Indigenous violence Amnesty’s report states that authorities were more likely to use lethal violence in regions with large Indigenous populations such as Ayacucho, even if the protest activities were similar in frequency and intensity to other areas. “This report’s findings are only the tip of the iceberg in a painful history of discrimination and exclusion for Peru’s indigenous peoples,” Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty’s Americas director, told Al Jazeera via email.
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