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Police Brutality: For Jack and Inti

Source: José Miguel Alban 

    For the past 7 days there has been social unrest over the most recent political crisis in Peru. Since the start of the protests the national police has used violence to calm the tension which have obviously exacerbated the situation. For example, the national police has used gas bombs, police batons, rubber bullets and pellets againt the protesters. There has even been an undercover police unit, known as the ternas, infiltrating the marches and instigating violence and repression against the protesters. However, things started getting suspicious when doctors started reporting extractions of marbles from protesters which meant the national police started using lethal force. And there are videos where you heard police officers scream “shoot , aim for their heads”.Of course, now the former de facto president and Minister of Defense denied using violence to suppress the people. Additionally, the now former Prime Minister visited the police departments and congratulated them on their work. In the past seven days there have been more than 100 injured, 41 missing people and 2 deaths; Jack Bryan and Inti (which means sun in Quechua). Jack Bryan Pintado Sanchez was a 22 year old law student that was struck 11 times with projectiles in the face, head and thorax; he was the first casualty. Eleven times is not an accident, it is an order to kill and eliminate, it excessive force that dictatorships use against its people. The second victim is Jordan Inti Sotelo Camargo who was 22 years old and a Tourism student. He was shot four times; 3 in the face and one in the heart, which was the fatal shot. However things got worse; while his parents were in the hospital, police forces went to their home to question the family, but the neighbors stopped them from entering their home made them leave. Despite the brutality against these two individuals; it got even worse because there is new evidence that doctors and the lawyers have found gun powder and bullet fragments in the body of Inti. We are going to “celebrate” our bicentennial next year and this situation should make us reconsider our history and our present. The generation that has defended our democracy in the streets is known as the Bicentennial Generation. After the deaths of Jack Bryan and Inti, the de facto president and all his cabinet resigned, plus the Armed Forces have stated publicly that they “will defend the safety of the people”. Most importantly, there are now only 17 missing people reported. As a result, we have no president or new cabinet and the congress is deliberating in order to elect a transitional president. Jack Bryan and Inti will go down as our martyrs of this generation. These are just some of the details of our current situation in Peru.

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