“There were grave episodes of use of excessive force,” the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded in a report. “We reject the supposed findings of extrajudicial killings and the ‘massacre’ description,” she said at a press conference. “There were serious human rights violations that must be investigated with due diligence and an ethno-racial approach,” said Margarette May Macaulay, head of the IACHR, which is the human rights arm of the Washington-based Organization of American States. “The deaths could constitute extrajudicial executions.”Bolaurte played down the wording of the IACHR’s report, saying it did not “confirm” the occurrence of human rights violations, but that they “could have happened.”The report affirmed that rights violations took place. The commission’s report follows a Human Rights Watch publication, which concluded that Peru’s security forces were responsible for protest deaths.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 05, 2023 01:01 UTC