Attempts to take over airports in Cusco, Juliaca and Arequipa in the framework of the protests against the government of Dina Boluarte -and which ended in acts of violence- can be classified as acts of terrorism, according to the international regulations of the United Nations (UN).
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This is the Protocol for the Suppression of unlawful acts of violence at airports that provide services to international civil aviation (1988), included in the Legislative Guide to Universal Conventions and Protocols against Terrorism, prepared by the Office of National United against Drugs and Crime.
This was recalled by the constitutional lawyer Luciano López in an interview with channel N, in which he gave an account of this international legislation to which the Peruvian State subscribed and ratified in 1989.
López commented that this treaty is part of our national legislation.
“Attacking an airport, according to the United Nations (…), is a terrorist act,” the specialist remarked.
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The aforementioned protocol establishes that anyone who uses any device, substance or weapon “performs an act of violence against a person at an airport that provides service to international civil aviation, that causes or may cause serious injury or death” commits terrorist acts.
Also to those who destroy “or cause serious damage to the facilities of an airport that provides a service to international civil aviation or to an aircraft that is not in service and is located at the airport, or disturbs airport services.”
The protocol adds that these subversive acts, from the perspective of the internal law of each country, would already be typified.
“That is, violence that causes or may cause serious injury or death committed on the territory of the State,” the document adds.
