Peru’s ‘racist bias’ drove lethal police response to protests, Amnesty says

In a damning report, human rights group says state permitted excessive and lethal use of force' against Indigenous groups

Peru used excessive and lethal force" driven by marked racist bias" against a largely indigenous and campesino population, Amnesty International has concluded, following an investigation into more than two months of anti-government protests which have claimed at least 60 lives.

An Amnesty International fact-finding mission investigated 46 possible cases of human rights violations and documented 12 cases of deaths from the use of firearms - all the victims appeared to have been shot in the chest, torso or head - following visits to the capital Lima and the southern cities of Chincheros, Ayacucho and Andahuaylas.