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A6 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 13 december 2022
Peru president proposes moving up elections amid protests

By REGINA GARCIA CANO ting her resignation,” said
and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Taipe, who is affiliated
Associated Press with the party that helped
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Castillo and Boluarte win
new President Dina Bolu- election before both were
arte gave in to protesters’ kicked out of that party.
demands early Monday, “Since when is protesting a
announcing in a nation- crime?”
ally televised address that Taipe charged that security
she would send Congress forces were using heavy-
a proposal to move up handed repressive tactics
elections after thousands in quelling demonstrations.
of protesters again took to But it remains unclear how
the streets demanding she the teen was fatally injured.
resign. Officials also confirmed the
The protests turned deadly death of a second protest-
Sunday, with at least two er, which the director of a
deaths in a remote com- local hospital said was an
munity in the Andes, ac- 18-year-old man.
cording to officials. The pro- But his sister, Raquel
testers want elections to re- Quispe, identified him as
place not only Boluarte but 17-year-old Beckham Ro-
all members of Congress. Tear gas is returned to police trying to break up supporters of ousted President Pedro Castillo at mario Quispe Garfias. She
But Boluarte’s announce- plaza San Martin in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. Associated Press told The Associated Press
ment did not placate she was not given a cause
protesters. Hours after her difficult time is to interpret, from custody of ex-presi- by the armed forces, and of death, but bloody im-
address, demonstrators read and collect the aspi- dent Pedro Castillo, who marched in the streets. ages she shared showed a
blocked access to an inter- rations, interests and con- was ousted Wednesday by A 15-year-old boy died of severe head injury that ex-
national airport in southern cerns ...of the vast major- lawmakers after he sought an injury suffered during a posed his brain, which she
Peru and occupied its run- ity of Peruvians,” Boluarte to dissolve Congress ahead protest in the remote An- said counters the sugges-
way. said. “So, interpreting in the of an impeachment vote. des community of Anda- tion he was hit “by a rock.”
Boluarte said she would broadest way the will of the The protests have been huaylas, Congresswoman At least 26 people were re-
propose general elections citizens... I have decided particularly heated in rural Maria Taipe Coronado said ported injured in Sunday’s
for April 2024 a reversal of to assume the initiative to areas, strongholds for Cas- as she made an impas- protests.
her earlier assertion that she reach an agreement with tillo, a former schoolteach- sioned plea from the legis- Boluarte, in her address
should remain president for the Congress of the repub- er and political newcomer lative palace for Boluarte to the nation, declared a
the remaining 3 1/2 years of lic to advance the general from a poor Andean moun- to step down. state of emergency in ar-
her predecessor’s term. elections.” tain district. Protesters set “The death of this compa- eas outside Lima, where
“My duty as president of Many protesters were also fire to a police station, van- triot is the responsibility of protests have been partic-
the republic in the current demanding the release dalized a small airport used Mrs. Dina for not submit- ularly violent. q

Israeli army acknowledges shooting death of Palestinian girl

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Is- the area. the operations in the area on the roof of their home also expressed support for
raeli military on Monday It was a rare admission of would continue.About 150 after Israeli troops withdrew Israel’s soldiers and said op-
acknowledged that its an error by the military, Palestinians have been from the area. erations in the West Bank
troops fatally shot a teen- which has carried out dai- killed in Israeli-Palestinian In a statement, the Israeli would continue while Israel
age Palestinian girl during ly arrest operations in the fighting in the West Bank military said an initial inquiry would do its “utmost” to
an operation in the occu- West Bank for nearly nine and east Jerusalem this found the girl “was hit by avoid civilian casualties.
pied West Bank, saying she months. Israel’s prime min- year, making it the deadli- unintentional fire aimed Jenin is known as a strong-
was unintentionally hit by ister expressed sorrow over est year since 2006. at armed gunmen” on a hold of militants. The army
fire aimed at gunmen in the girl’s death, but said The Israeli army says most of nearby rooftop. “It appears has long operated in the
the Palestinians killed have the girl who was killed had area, stepping up its activi-
been militants. But stone- been on the roof of one of ties after a series of deadly
throwing youths protest- the houses near the gun- attacks inside Israel last
ing Israeli army incursions men,” it said.It said the forc- spring, some of which were
and others not involved in es opened fire after local carried out by militants
confrontations, including a militants hurled firebombs from Jenin.
prominent Al Jazeera jour- and opened fire at the sol- Zakaran was killed in the
nalist, have also been killed diers. Jenin refugee camp,
in the fighting. The army said that its com- the same area where Al
Palestinian officials said manders “regret any harm Jazeera journalist Shireen
Jana Zakaran, 16, was to uninvolved civilians,” Abu Akleh was killed last
killed overnight Monday in but said that it would press May. The army has said its
the northern city of Jenin. ahead with its operations. forces most likely shot her
According to the official Israeli Prime Minister Yair unintentionally, but has pro-
Palestinian news agency Lapid issued a statement vided no evidence to back
Palestinians carry the body of Jana Zakaran, 16, during her Wafa, her family had been expressing sorrow over the up the claim that she might
funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. searching for her for an girl’s death and sent con- have been hit by Palestin-
Associated Press hour and found her body dolences to her family. He ian gunmen in the area. q