Massacre in Ayacucho: civilians did not die during attempt to take over Ayacucho Airport (La República [Spanish] - 2/13/2023)
Massacre in Ayacucho: civilians did not die during attempt to take over Ayacucho Airport (Spanish)
Investigation and video from IDL-Reporteros reconstruct how six of the ten victims of the December 15, 2022, protests were shot dead by soldiers who chased them after evicting them from the landing field. The Prosecutor 's Office has made advances in identifying those responsible.
An investigation by IDL Reporters reveals that six of the ten victims of the protests on December 15 in Ayacucho died after being hit by bullets fired by the military (photo AFP)
It had already been reported in La República that most of the citizens shot dead in the city of Ayacucho did not receive the bullets while they were trying to take over the airport. Investigative reporting and a video published last night by IDL-Reporteros consolidates that version. Journalists Rosa Laura and César Prado reconstructed how six of the ten people who died on December 15 were murdered: Josué Sañudo , Edgar Prado, Clemer Rojas, Cristofer Ramos Aime, José Luis Aguilar Yucra, and Leonardo Hancco .
The investigation by the team led by Gustavo Gorriti made it possible to identify the location and precise moments of the shots and where the victims fell. “He was able to determine that in the six cases investigated those who shot were military; as well as who was in command of the military operation”, the report concludes.
The investigation also reported that Prosecutor Karen Obregón Ubaldo, from the Second Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office Specialized in Human Rights, Interculturality, and Terrorism Crimes of Ayacucho, has initiated an investigation to determine as clearly as possible what was the responsibility of the Armed Forces (FF.AA.) and Peruvian National Pólice (PNP).
“One of the first procedures was to collect evidence at the critical points of the confrontations. On December 17, a team from the prosecutor's office collected eighteen bullet casings between Ejército avenue and Vía de Evitamiento, and another three in the archaeological zone of Conchopata. No shell casings were found on Abancay avenue and other sectors surrounding the cemetery, although in later days some people went to Obregón's office to deliver those they had found on the night of the 15th in that area," it is reported.
The report adds that on December 19, Obregón's team visited the facilities of the "Domingo Ayarza" Barracks (ex-Cabitos) and requested the entry and exit notebook for the weapons of the five units stationed at the barracks.
Registry of the exit and entry of firearms for the Second Infantry Brigade's Patrols
"Four of the five companies delivered their notebooks, which contained the departure of dozens of GALIL [assault] rifles on December 15," it is detailed. “The only unit that provided inaccurate information was the No. 2 Commando Company, whose store manager explained to the prosecution that that day he had taken note of the departure of weapons on bond sheets and not in the regular notebook. Those notes are illegible,” says the IDL-Reporteros report.
Prosecutor advances
According to IDL-Reporteros, the Prosecutor's Office has also collected the statements of four seriously injured victims who remain in the Ayacucho Regional Hospital. Carlos Tineo Gómez was shot twice in the leg and in a testicle when he was in the vicinity of the cemetery at 5 in the afternoon. Nearby, Anthony Oré Espinoza was hit by a bullet that entered his right leg and exited through his abdomen. Miguel Yucra was shot in the back of the head, on the boulevard in front of the cemetery, and today he is admitted to the Archbishop Loayza Hospital in Lima. Edilberto Hinostroza Ramos was also wounded by a bullet to the leg and Daniel Cirineo Cierto received a pellet in the chest when, according to his own testimony, he was helping a wounded man.
In addition, according to information provided by the Army to the Prosecutor's Office, on December 15, Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Sampén Díaz was in charge of security at the Alfredo Mendivil Duarte Airport.
“Under his command, First Class Petty Officer Jaime Díaz Huicho led the patrol in charge of the airport control tower, First Class Technician Javier Aparicio commanded the patrol assigned to the Canaán Sector (Sao Paulo Avenue). The patrol located on Abancay Avenue and the cemetery was left in charge of Captain Víctor Grados Rivas”, specify Victoria Laura and César Prado.
“To date, no military commander has made a statement before the Office of Prosecutor Obregón,” the IDL-Reporteros' journalists conclude.
Tags: #AyacuchoMassacre #IDL-Reporteros #Protests #FFAA #PNP
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