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‘They shot them down like animals’: massacre in Peru’s Ayacucho
Survivors and family members of victims of the massacre in Ayacucho on December 15 denounce how the army treated protesters like war targets, reminiscent of violence faced during the internal armed conflict, writes ZOE ALEXANDRA
TRUTH WILL OUT: Women from the Ayacucho-based National Association of Relatives of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru (ANFASEP) hold signs in the central plaza of Ayacucho condemning the deaths of protesters
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ON DECEMBER 15 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho.
This action was in response to a national strike and mobilisation to protest against the coup d’état that deposed president Pedro Castillo on December 7.
On December 15, hundreds of university students, shopkeepers, street vendors, agricultural workers and activists gathered at the centre of Ayacucho to express their discontent over the removal of Castillo and continued their mobilisation toward the airport.
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