Peru's Crackdown: Possible Massacre, Says Rights Commission.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has released a report stating that the Peruvian government committed abuses during the crackdown on widespread unrest following the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo in December. The report suggests that the state’s response to nationwide protests could be classified as a “massacre” and that the deaths could constitute extrajudicial executions. The majority of those killed were protesters, and many of the harshest responses took place in rural Andean regions with large Indigenous populations. Amnesty International has called on the Canadian government to halt weapons exports to the Peruvian government.