On Tuesday, August 20, the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, and other authorities were denounced before the International Criminal Court for the deaths registered in the social protests at the beginning of her government. teleSUR
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00:00Outstanding Peruvian personalities denounced Presidentina Boluarte before the International
00:05Criminal Court, holding her and other authorities accountable for the 49 deaths from repression
00:12of social protests.
00:14The allegation was announced by 16 plaintiffs, including former Prime Minister Mirta Vazquez,
00:20the then Foreign Minister Diego Garcia, and former Ambassadors Oswaldo de Rivero and
00:25Harold Forrest.
00:27The communique details that the President is the main culprit of the deaths occurred
00:32during the protests that were held in the country from December 2022 to February 2023.
00:38It also described the situation as a severe damage of the principles of representative
00:43democracy and added that it represents a series of serious human rights violations
00:49that cannot go unpunished.