The Joint Command of the Armed forces He gave details of his operation carried out this Sunday, December 25, at 05:15 p.m., which managed to vacate the TGP (KP-127) gas compression plant located in La Convención (Cusco), and had been taken over for 12 days by a hundred people.
“Despite the hostile attitude shown by the protesters, law enforcement managed to control the situation without causing damage to civilian, military or police personnel, or to the sensitive infrastructure of this critical asset, located in kumpirushiato”, reads the statement from the Ministry of Defense.
This clarification was also made to deny the use of force and weapons against the protesters, since a video had been published on social networks in which a fierce shooting was heard while the community members tried to flee the place during the days. There was even talk of deceased people, but both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health denied that version.
The Cusco Regional Directorate confirmed that “two mild polycontusions” were registered, who received medical attention at the Keshiapato health center and have already been discharged. In such a way that “it is absolutely ruled out that there are people with firearms.”
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The Armed Forces addressed the public to ask them not to give credit to “malicious versions that have the objective of fueling violence in the area” and reiterated their commitment to make regulated use of force.
