Peru- January, 9 2025

Correspondent from Juliaca

Two years after the massacre of workers and peasants…

Interview with Reyder Hinostroza, wounded by gunshot on December 15, 2022 by Dina Boluarte's Armed Forces in the Ayacucho massacre

“We are from the department of Ayacucho. We are participating in the commemoration of the two years from the massacre here in Juliaca today, January 9. We are accompanying. We are relatives of victims and deceased. We are also wounded ourselves. I was wounded then. It was on December 15, 2022. In Ayacucho there were 10 deaths and more than 70 wounded.

So far, there has been no justice. So far, there has been no justice at all, no one has been arrested. And there is evidence, there have been cameras, that the military fired there. In the city of Ayacucho, there have been more military.

As I told you, I was wounded on the right side of my thigh. I have 47 stitches with a skin graft. I was hospitalized in the city of Lima and now that it's over, I'm still in bad shape. I have my checkups but I'm in the fight, here accompanying the pain of my comrades. There are wounded like me. Sometimes we are in pain, others with bullets still in their bodies, but we are in the fight here in Juliaca.

A National Organization of victims of the murdering of 2022-2023 was formed, which includes Ayacucho, Puno, Pichanaqui, Apurímac, Cuzco, Arequipa and Junin. These are the regions that have joined together with this message of protest against the dictatorship of Dina Boluarte. A National Organization of all those massacred in 2022-2023 has been formed.

What we all ask for, both the wounded and the families of the deceased, is justice. That those who shot and killed, which comprises the president, be behind bars. We ask for justice and that there is no repetition at some point with our children. That at no time can these things happen to our children. And let there be no impunity. We want justice. There are people from Juliaca here, from Ayacucho, who have been left orphaned. There are orphans. There are mothers who are now mothers-and-fathers in one. Sometimes, as they say, Christmas is not the same, Father's Day is not either. Sometimes a child misses his father a lot... There is a child who was commenting in the Association, he cries because on Father's Day the little children go alongside their mothers... but he is alone, his father is not there. It is a great pain, really.
There is anger, rage because there is no justice. It's been two years and there is no justice."