The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, today described her predecessor Pedro Castillo as a “murderer”, accusing him of being the “author of the more than 60 victims” during the protests that shook the country after the removal of the former president in December of the year past.
“I ask: those who died in that political crisis in the first quarter of this year, who did they benefit? To this government of an Andean, provincial woman, or to Pedro Castillo who had carried out the coup d’état and sent all those people to generate violence in the country?”, said the head of state, according to statements reproduced by the local newspaper El Trade.
“Well, Pedro Castillo, the murderer sitting in the Special Operations Directorate (the place where the ex-president is being held). Pedro Castillo is the author of the more than 60 victims of this political crisis, of this confrontation between Peruvians that we tremendously regret, ”he added during an official act in the town of Manchay.
Boluarte assured that his Executive will continue to “show face” and stated that they “defend democracy and institutionality.”
“We are not going to stop with those provocations that we already know are sent by Pedro Castillo and are paid, some people, with illegal money and they are not from here. We already know, where we are going, Pedro Castillo sends us his picket, financed by drug trafficking and financed by illegal mining, ”reiterated the president, alluding to the protests against her.
Castillo has been detained since last December 7 when he gave a speech in which he announced the closure of Congress and the start of a management by decree, which led to his dismissal and his replacement by Boluarte, until then his vice president.
This situation generated a series of protests to request the resignation of the president and the call for early elections.
Human Rights Watch and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in their respective investigations, blamed the government and its armed forces for the repression unleashed between December and March, when 49 civilians died directly in these demonstrations, a figure that exceeds 60 if we include the side effects.
Boluarte has already rejected the alleged responsibility of the Government in the death of civilians, facts that he attributed to the repression of the Armed Forces and the National Police, to which, likewise, he expressed his full support.
Source: Ambito
