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Weekly Report - 10 August 2017 (WR-17-31)
PERU: Protesting teachers accused of terrorist ties
Peru’s interior ministry claimed this week that as many as 4,819 teachers signed a document in 2011 presented to the national electoral board (JNE) seeking the registration as a political party of the Movimiento por la Amnistía y los Derechos Fundamentales (Movadef), widely considered to be the political wing of the Sendero Luminoso (SL) guerrilla group. The ministry maintained that several of the leaders of the ongoing teachers’ protests in Peru, which began in the southern region of Cusco in 15 June, had signed the document. Teachers’ unions have accused the government of trying to discredit their legitimate demands for better salaries and working conditions.
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