The amnesty law would shield security forces from accountability for human rights abuses during Peru’s internal conflict.
President Dina Boluarte has blasted the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for its opposition to a recently passed bill that would grant amnesty to soldiers, police officers and other security personnel involved in Peru’s internal conflict from 1985 to 2000.
On Thursday, Boluarte asserted that the international court had overstepped its authority by seeking the law’s suspension.
“We are not anyone’s colony,” she said, posting a snippet of her speech to social media.
“And we will not allow the intervention of the Inter-American Court that intends to suspend a bill that seeks justice for members of our armed forces, our National Police and the self-defence committees that fought, risking their lives, against the insanity of terrorism.”
