The Juliaca massacre of 2023 corresponds to violent

episodes on January 9, 2023, in which the Peruvian

National Police fired at protesters in Juliaca during the
strike in Puno in the context of the social upheaval in
the country in 2022. -2023. At least 18 protesters were
killed and more than 100 injured, with all deaths
attributed to gunshot wounds. A police officer was also
killed that day by perpetrators arrested on March 25,
2023.

The event was the deadliest in the country since the

social upheaval, becoming described as a massacre by
some media. local media criticized the response of the
national media, noting that the events in Juliaca were
overlooked. The Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights condemned the violence perpetrated by
the PNP

murder of a policeman
Memorial to the policeman who died in the protests
outside the Prefecture of Lima.
On the night of January 9, it was learned that a patrol
car caught fire.11 The homicide of a policeman, Luis
Soncco Quispe, was reported, who was cremated inside
the vehicle.60616263According to information from
the Ministry of the Interior , Soncco received a bullet
shot from a pistol kept in his vehicle.64 Later it was
confirmed that two men and a woman were arrested
accused of the crime according to the investigations of
the DIRINCRI Homicide Division.66 One of the
defendants would be a retired S3 PNP police officer.
$23,800 was found among the belongings of the
detainees

According to the legal medical necropsy expert report

No. 019-2023, it was once again confirmed that this
originally happened due to traumatic brain injury and
he was not burned alive as Prime Minister Alberto
Otárola had declared.