Amnesty International Peru said it conducted intensive on-the-ground investigations, and found evidence of at least 20 potential cases of extrajudicial executions committed by Peruvian security forces against unarmed protesters, who were shot in the body and head. Medical workers attempting to tend to the wounded were also shot and killed, Navarro said.

The crackdown also had a clear racial bias, she explained: “Eighty per cent of the people that were injured or killed were Indigenous people.”

We don’t get answers to our questions; we don’t get replies to our calls for a suspension of arms exports; we see that there appears to be a double standard,” Price added, noting that Canada has suspended arms exports over human rights concerns to other countries, such as Turkey and Belarus. Spain and Brazil, meanwhile, both paused exports to Peru.

Looming large over Canada’s relationship with Peru is the Canadian mining industry, which holds nearly $10 billion worth of assets in Peru. Canada is the third-largest investor in Peru’s mining industry, and is the country’s largest foreign investor in mining exploration.