Confirmation. Defense Minister, Jorge Luis Chavez Crestassured his presence before the Plenary Session of the Congress to answer about the soldiers drowned in the river Ilave, Fist. The motion for interpellation proposed by people force intends to know the institutional information of the Joint Command of the Armed forces (CCFA), to which Chávez Cresta has access. Moreover, the head of the Mindef commented on the request made to the military institution for its presentation in the Legislative.
“I am going to attend the Congress and I am going to carry out the answers according to the reports already requested from the CCFA, and I will transfer that information in the framework of the development of the questions that they have requested,” he said for Radio Programas.
By advancing the support of his statements, Chávez Cresta agrees with his colleague Vincent Romero in institutional discourse. In his speech on March 9, the home minister He based all of his responses on information provided by the National Police of Peru (PNP). He went so far as to say that there was no repression in the social protests, when journalistic reports show the opposite. Also, according to information from the PNP, there was sufficient evidence to attack the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos with a tank and, even worse, the “intervention” complied with humanitarian regulations. This means of communication exposed the complaints of improper touching and other violations during the morning of January 21, but in the Police “there is no knowledge of any complaint about events of this nature.”
The same discrepancy between the journalistic accounts and the state version occurs with the CCFA. In a statement on March 10, they alleged that an alleged “mob” armed with “stones, huaracazos and other blunt objects” attacked the capes when they were already trying to cross the river Ilave. A forceful audio and reaffirmed by sources close to the speaker, retort the account of the events of the Army.
