In the 112 days of the year, 51 femicides have been registered, a shocking figure that even exceeds the 48 lives taken since January by the political crisis.
Machismo has killed a woman every 48 hours in Peru in 2023. In the 112 days to date of the year, 51 femicides have been registered, a shocking figure that even exceeds the 48 lives taken since January in the anti-government protests that hit the country.
According to official data, there are more than fifty women murdered at the hands of men, in just over three months. Not even the repression of the forces of order to the demonstrations that resonated so much on an international scale did not shed so much blood.
In the case of the social outbreak, there were 48 deaths between January and March: 28 civilians killed in clashes6 soldiers drowned in a river and 14 other victims of roadblocks in different circumstances.
A thousand lives in seven years
Just in the last seven years, there are more than 1,000 women murdered due to gender violence in Peru and the trend, at least for this 2023, is far from going downward.
In fact, femicides in the Andean country rose from 84 in 2015 to 150 in 2018, which means an increase of 79%.
In the following years, the number stabilized at around 137 cases per year, always according to the records of the authorities of a country in which half of the women report having ever suffered violence from their partners and where impunity seems to be rampant.
This 2023, not only the statistics set off the alarms, but the cases of gender violence are increasingly taking on a more extreme level of cruelty, as several feminist organizations and human rights defenders have warned in recent weeks.
Xiomara Huallparimachi, for example, was dismembered; Karina Clemente, drowned; Katherine Gómez was burned alive by her ex-partner in the middle of the street in Lima; and Yoni Taipe’s body was found this week, decapitated and limbless.
These are just some of the most notorious cases, which paradoxically occurred when the destinations of the country They are driven for the first time by a woman.
“We have to reject the issue of violence against women head-on (…) We will not stop to create support programs for the families of the bereaved and we will take some initiatives so that we can extend greater prison terms to these subjects,” he declared this Wednesday, Without further details, President Dina Boluarte.
The tip of the iceberg
since yesterday when the femicide was confirmed 51 so far this year, after the death of a nurse who had been raped and attacked by two of her co-workers, the profiles on the social networks of the Ministry for Women wear black, as a sign of mourning.
“Figures that hurt and outrage. Let’s continue working for respect for life, freedom and the rights of all women. For the victims and their families. For a country where women can live without fear,” the portfolio wrote on Twitter led by Minister Nancy Tolentino, who recently increased the controversy by stating that she wanted “young people to choose well who they are with.”
Meanwhile, the relatives of Xiomara, Karina, Katherine, Yoni and many others mourn their irreparable losses that, at a national level, are pieces that reveal the tip of the iceberg of this terrifying mosaic of gender violence in Peru.
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