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Security & Strategic Review - May 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PERU: Arequipa protests start claiming lives
Protests against the Tía María copper mining project in the southwestern region of Arequipa have reached a new level of violence as they entered their sixteenth year. In the first fifteen years, clashes over protest actions had led to more than 100 injuries in the ranks of the police and at least 70 in those of the protesters. In late April the confrontations began to claim lives and prompted the government to send in the military and withdraw an ‘out-of-control’ police unit.
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